Month: December 2022

Mystic Skies, 2022-11-27

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My first puzzle from Ravensburger’s Nature Edition series, and I found it very enjoyable and relaxing.

Mystic Skies, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces. Completed on November 27, 2022.

I bought the puzzle used, and when I opened it, I thought I would have a pre-sorted puzzle:

It didn’t turn out quite like that, but the bags and trays were some help. One of the trays contained maybe 80 % of the edge pieces, and one of the bags had almost all of the bridge pieces, but otherwise, the bags and trays seemed rather mixed. Anyway, it was some help, and I did this one from top to bottom, starting with the sky and finishing with the bridge.

Desktop Murder, 2022-11-27

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A mystery puzzle from the 80s (it says 1984 on the box)! There’s a story: a chauffeur to the rich and famous is writing a tell-all book, and Jessica Fletcher is helping with the editing, but of course the chauffeur ends up dead. There are some suspects, and Jessica gives us three tings to look for (or prove) in order to find the murderer. I could only work out one, but it was still great fun. The solution was inverted, so that you had to read it in a mirror 🙂

The puzzle itself was pretty dark, and Paul Lamond Games is not exactly great quality, but at 550 pieces it was OK. You can have a peek at the image here.

Sylvan Spectre, 2022-11-26

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Hurray for Puzzles! recently made me aware that Heye has posted some upcoming puzzles on their webpage. There is still no full catalog for 2023. At least three of the puzzles (on the second page, so probably entered earlier than the rest) are already available, and this puzzle is one of them. The date on the bag was in June 2022, but the puzzle is not in the 2022 catalog, and neither are the other two puzzles that I got.

Anyway, this is an installment in Andy Kehoe’s Inner Mystic series. Like other puzzles in the series, they are not the easiest puzzles, but also not as hard as they look. I loved this, and I was happy to see Heye back to a proper grid cut with no false fits after another new Heye had a strange mix of grid and ribbon cut.

Sylvan Spectre by Andy Kehoe, Heye, 1000 pieces. Completed on November 26, 2022.