Part of the Grafika Travel around the World-series. I expected Antarctica to be more difficult, but it turned out to be pretty easy.
Australia and Antarctica, 2018-08-27
Month: October 2019
BVB-Mini-Puzzle, 2019-10-20
Before the game yesterday I went into the fan shop at the stadium, and found a puzzle 🙂 It’s an 80 piece mini puzzle, and the image shows the stadium shortly before kick-off. From the way people are holding their scarves high, I’m pretty sure they’re singing You’ll Never Walk Alone, which happens 7 minutes before kick-off. There was no brand beyond Borussia Dortmund, or any indication where it was manufactured, or by whom.
The game was very exciting, and it ended in a 1-0 win for us. We had two goals disallowed, at least one of which should have stood, and the opponent probably should have had a penalty that wasn’t given, either.
Here’s a bonus photo with the tube the puzzle came in, with a filter from the BVB app (Heimsieg = Home Win).
New Exit-Puzzles
Apparently, the Ravensburger Exit-puzzle series is doing well, because there are two new puzzles, and of course, I bought them immediately. Wolves and an old cellar.
After I had completed my second puzzle in the series, The Witches Kitchen, I noticed that that post kept getting views consistently long after it was published. One reader also contacted me for help with the first puzzle in the series, The Observatory. I thought that most people searching for these puzzles probably wanted more detailed info than I wanted to put in my posts, so after the third and last puzzle from the first batch (The Temple Grounds), I set up a separate spoiler page for the series. If you use Chrome or Firefox you can safely head over to the page because the spoilers are hidden with an HTML-tag called details, but that does NOT work in Microsoft browsers Explorer or Edge. Safari and Opera should be OK, but I’ve not tried them out.
My spoiler page gets more traffic than any other content on my blog, including the home page. Of the posts for individual puzzles, The Witches Kitchen gets the most traffic (about 500 hits). I’ll be doing the new Exit puzzles soon, but I need to finish some of the ones I’m doing now first 🙂
Multipuzzling
I’m currently working on three different puzzles. In Dortmund, where I now am, I have Epanouissement coloré still unfinished, and in Helsinki, there’s a 500 piece Heye with red hearts and a White Mountain Collage with book covers. If you count the 18 000 piece Paradise Sunset, where I’ve not started on section two yet, I have four puzzles on the go. Progress has been a bit slow lately, mostly due to work.
Oceania, 2017-09-02
This was my second project in Dortmund. I love the image, but it turned out to be more difficult than I had expected. Story of my life 😀 I was especially happy to see Hokusai’s Wave in there – I’ve always wanted to do it, but I think it’s too difficult as an entire puzzle. Worked well in this collage, though.
Rio de Janeiro, 2018-01-23
A colourful collage with touristy images of Brazil. I think this was the first 3000-piece puzzle that was in two bags for me. I felt a bit of a cheat, but I didn’t mix the bags. That way, the table was enough and I didn’t have to use auxiliary pieces of cardboard. It was an enjoyable puzzle, I especially appreciated the colours.
Patisserie, 2018-03-02
I love painted cakes and pastries, but, once again, this turned out to be more difficult than I expected. It was still a great puzzle, lots of text and cake 🙂
Puzzling Proposal
This is currently on sale on tori.fi in Finland. It’s a wooden puzzle with some text in Finnish. It says “Darling, I would like to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you be my wife?” Kind of adorable 🙂 (I stole the photo from tori.fi)
1970s Sweet Memories, 2019-10-13
I actually gave this puzzle away when I moved in 2013, but then someone brought it into work (I don’t remember who got the puzzle in 2013, but it was obviously a colleague), and now I have it back 🙂 I completed the puzzle for the first time in May 2012, and I posted about it in April this year. A rerun, I’m afraid 🙂 It’s still complete, even after its travels. Also, it was still great fun working on it.
Art Nouveau, 2019-10-11
This was a new brand for me, Step Puzzle, and I was not too impressed. The pieces were quite thin, although not so thin that they wouldn’t stay flat. They were, however rather difficult to pick up, and the fit was quite loose. I feel like I should have enjoyed this more than I did. The image is nice, but there are so many posters, I think I would have preferred a smaller number. They are all in the same style, lots of billowing dresses and hair flying everywhere 🙂 There’s no man in any of the posters, just one child and one cat, all the other figures are women.
This was my favourite. When you see the image from afar it looks like the woman is blindfolded.
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