White Room, 2025-03-16

I loved this installment in the Lost Places series! It was just enough challenging to be really engrossing, and I found myself unable to leave the puzzle table before I’d finished. I did the yellow sofas and the dark parts first, but even in the white parts there were plenty of clues, so it wasn’t too difficult.

For the puzzle challenge, this will be #19, “White”.

White Room, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces. Completed on March 16, 2025.

Campfire Romance Under the Stars, 2025-03-14

This was fun and easy! While this is a Schmidt puzzle, the same image is also available by Buffalo. For my puzzle challenge, this is the bonus challenge for March, which is the song Northern Lights (Revontulet in Finnish) by Anssi Kela, who is the first of this year’s artists that I’ve actually heard about. I still haven’t heard the song, though.

Campfire Romance Under the Stars by Lars Stewart, Schmidt, 1000 pieces. Completed on March 14, 2025.

Doors of USA, 2025-03-07

I would have preferred more colourful doors, to be honest, like the bright green one in the bottom row, but even like this, it wasn’t really a difficult puzzle. The dark green and brown doors were last, I think, and after that there was still some brickwork to fill in. The quality was good and I had no false fits, as usual with the larger Bluebird puzzles.

Doors of USA by Dominic Davison, Bluebird Puzzle, 2000 pieces. Completed on March 7, 2025.

For my puzzle challenge, this is #7, North America.

Peanuts Moments, 2025-02-14

This was fun and easy! I picked out pieces for different backgrounds and then filled in the rest.

Peanuts Moments, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces. Completed on February 14, 2025.

For my puzzle challenge, this is #11, Recognizable breed of dog. Snoopy is a beagle 🙂

The Skaters, 2025-02-09

Despite the enormous sky this puzzle was not hard at all. It’s an older Ravensburger, from 1982, and as usual, the cut is perfect. It’s so distinct that you often see a piece and know just by the shape where it belongs, the same way you can see a piece and think “oh, that’s the other half of that lamp”. Really enjoyable puzzle!

The Skaters by Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, Ravensburger, 1500 pieces. Completed on February 9, 2025.

The puzzle challenge I’m doing has extra monthly challenges that are communicated as (Finnish) songs, and the song for February was “In the Winter” (“Talvella” in Finnish) by Fröbelin Palikat, who apparently make music for children. Anyway, I used this puzzle for the February challenge.