Ferrari California, 2024-12-18

Even though I have little interest in cars otherwise, I love puzzling them for some reason. I also like trains and boats, and pretty much any form of transport.

This was a lovely puzzle, and I did it pretty much top to bottom. The red bits turned out to be the most difficult, so I did that last. Two missing pieces, but they’re quite hard to spot, because they’re both mostly black.

Ferrari California, Clementoni, 1000 pieces. Completed on December 18, 2024.

Heye 2025 Catalogue

The Heye catalogue for 2025 is out, and you can download it here! Looks like it might be an expensive year… There’s a new Funky Zoo puzzle (Desert Habitat), and also a new similar series of a street where the different puzzles fit together. The concept is by Marino Degano, but the puzzles are by different artists. I’m definitely getting the Degano section:

There are some nice new puzzles in the Home series by Norman O’Flynn, and a new puzzle in the Inner Mystic series by Andy Kehoe, and I will probably have to get all of these.

I also like the look of the new series Fly High! by Nathalie Bräutigam:

There are also a few new Zozoville puzzles, and the Wanted series has been resurrected (you are supposed to locate a criminal in the puzzle, missing on the box, of course; I wrote about it here).

All in all a very impressive line-up!

Yogaland, 2024-11-06

After many years of intensive puzzling, I’ve now eased up a bit, and spent more time watching movies. I still puzzle, and whatever I do put together will end up here eventually.

This is one of the 2024 Heye puzzles by my favourite artist Marino Degano.

Yogaland by Marino Degano, Heye, 1500 pieces. Completed on November 6, 2024.

No phones allowed in Yogaland:

There’s a very qualified instructor for the cobra pose:

As usual, there’s a puzzle, but I can’t make out which one this time:

Even in Yogaland there are murders, it seems:

There is a performance by Lady Yogaga to look forward to:

Unsurprisingly, I loved this puzzle and all the funny details!