Hollywood, 2025-05-20

This was a lot of fun, a cartoon style puzzle with scenes from old movies.

Hollywood, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces. Completed on May 20, 2024.

My favourite is Harold Lloyd, hanging on to a clock in Safety Last! from 1923:

There is also Marilyn Monroe doing the famous air vent scene from The Seven Year Itch (1955), and beside her, Charlie Chaplin.

King Kong has been filmed many times, but I assume this is from the 1933 version:

For the puzzle challenge, this is #17, makes me laugh.

Superhero Movie, 2025-05-08

Very entertaining cartoon style puzzle where a movie is being shot.

Superhero Movie by Doro Göbel & Peter Knorr, Heye, 2000 pieces. Completed on May 8, 2025.

The hero is apparently called Lizzard Girl.

There was a bit of a snafu with the cut, the right edge was far too thin, and the left edge too broad.

Part of the right edge:

Part of the left edge:

You can see that the left edge doesn’t lie flat, because the cut is quite rough. It was only the left edge though, the rest of the puzzle was fine.

For the puzzle challenge, this is #20, (Cartoon) Hero.

The Ski-Boy, 2025-04-30

This is another puzzle from Tactic’s Come to Finland series. The quality was pretty bad, like it often is with Tactic, the pieces were thin, and many tabs had some lift despite this being a new puzzle. You can see the damage especially in the white area. I really like the image though, and the gradient sky.

The Ski-Boy, Tactic, 1000 pieces. Completed on April 30, 2025.

For the puzzle challenge, this is #8, winter sport.

Treacherous Harbor & Dragon Cave

I did two puzzles from the Ravensburger Exit series, Dragon Cave and Treacherous Harbor. In Treacherous Harbor, the light in the lighthouse has gone out and a ship is approaching, and in Dragon Cave you have to help a dragon to get an egg to hatch. You can peek at the finished images here (dragon) and here (harbor).

I’ve decided not to do anymore dedicated spoiler pages for Exit puzzles (I’m not really good at the puzzles in the puzzle anyway), but you can still find links to photos of the finished puzzles and to the Ravensburger help page on the general spoiler page. I’ve also added links to photos of the English page in the instruction booklet and the solution in the envelope for all Exit puzzles that I’ve done.

For the puzzle challenge, Treacherous Harbor was #10, uneven number of pieces, and Dragon Cave #16, edges last.

Mysterious Castle Library, 2025-04-19

Another installment in the Ravensburger Lost Places series. I think I have all of these 🙂 It was a nice a puzzle, although I fail to see what’s so mysterious about the library. For the puzzle challenge, this will be #18, a library or a book case.

Mysterious Castle Library, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces. Completed on April 19, 2025.