I arrived in Helsinki today, and wanted to start a great 5000-piece puzzle that I bought in Germany straight away:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this type of educational puzzle with such a large piece count, and definitely not from Ravensburger. Eurographics has 1000-piece educational puzzles, but otherwise, it’s mostly very small piece counts for children.

I’ve started spreading out the pieces, but I don’t think I’ll be able to finish that today – it’s my least favourite part of puzzling (I don’t sort – that would be even worse).

There were quite a few pieces stuck together, although so far, they’ve all come apart easily enough. The pieces also seem quite thin for Ravensburger.

Tomorrow, I’m going into the office for the first time in ages. Colleagues who have already taken the plunge tell me it’s kind of tiring to interact with other people in person all day, and I’m expecting to be exhausted just putting on clothes and getting out of the house to go to work 🙂 Which is to say, progress may be slow on this puzzle in the near future.