I think this is my first image by Lars Stewart, known to puzzlers as husband of Aimee. I might not have gotten this at all, but it was sold as a set together with another puzzle I really wanted (a map with pirates by Heye). Well, I’m very happy I did get it, because it turned out to be very entertaining, and much easier than I expected. Also, while Ravensburger is, of course, usually great quality, this turned out to be especially smooth, somehow. Loved it!
Eight images with famous London landmarks. As expected, this was very enjoyable and quite easy. I did the texts first, and most of the skies last – there were only about 50 completely blue pieces, and even those had many shades. Loved it!
The prismlike shapes made this slightly more difficult than a smooth gradient puzzle I’ve done, but it was still great fun. I started in the top left corner with purple, moved on to red, then yellow and green in the bottom right corner, then blue and finally light green. There was quite a lot of puzzle dust, which occasionally happens with Clementoni, but otherwise the quality was good, as usual.
Cartoon image with lots of funny details. I did end up using the box image quite a lot, but it was still fun and quite fast.
There’s a multipurpose sports arena, where they seem to be playing American football, soccer, basket ball, golf, baseball and either tennis or badminton, all at the same time:
The local restaurant offers take-away pizza:
Not sure why, but I expected this to be pretty easy. Well, it wasn’t, but it was pleasantly challenging from start to finish, and took me a good long while to complete.
Disappointment doesn’t begin to describe my experience with this puzzle. I’ve had the odd Ravensburger with a missing piece where I’ve suspected that I maybe didn’t lose the piece myself, but I’ve never had anything even remotely like this. Seven pieces missing and two extra pieces (doubles) in a 300 piece puzzle. This is is a massive fail in quality control, and I’m shocked to see such a thing with a Ravensburger.
I did contact Ravensburger, and they answered promptly, offering another copy of the puzzle. When I declined, they offered me a choice of any 300-piece puzzle (with normal pieces, like this one, not the XXL-pieces) currently in stock. I guess I’ll take them up at that.
The puzzle was produced in 2022, and it’s part of the Disney 100 series celebrating 100 years of Disney.
This was just as much fun as it looks like. I was actually quite relieved to find that the puzzle had random cut, since some Eurographics puzzles now have a grid cut with just the basic piece shape. I was expecting to do the coffee first, but somehow the blue cupcake with silver sprinkles was the one that stood out the most.
The puzzle came in a pretty nice metallic box:
There was a poster as well, but I didn’t use it.
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