This is, in theory, my kind of puzzle, but there were a few things about the design I wasn’t too happy about. For example, there is some text under every image, but it’s so small that you can’t even see that it exists in the complete image.
My favourite images:
Another thing I wasn’t too happy about was the amount of empty space. There were many images with tiny cars and a lot of background colour. I don’t really understand why.
Despite the few quibbles, it was still a very enjoyable puzzle.
Another image by one of my favourite artists for puzzles, Kandinsky. Obviously, I did the smaller images first, and things slowed down considerably when I got to the black part in the middle. In the end, I had about 120 pieces that were all black. I had a problem with a false fit, but managed to sort it out. D-Toys is not, unfortunately, all that good quality, but they have some nice images.
Very enjoyable puzzle, although they’ve managed to put the only type of cheese I don’t like (Brie) in the image. I started with tha raspeberries and the hat, and the lavender was last.
This puzzle is from a local charity shop in Dortmund, and unlike many puzzles from there, it has all the pieces, although on a few dozen pieces the image layer has separated on a tab, even though the puzzle is only a couple of years old. This was easier than many Van Haasteren images, especially because the tents make it a bit less busy than many other images. Van Haasteren himself can be seen canoeing here, and he is of course followed by the shark fin that is always present in his puzzles.
Here’s a picture of the recurring van Haasteren characters that someone posted in a puzzling FB group:
Nice and fairly easy puzzle, I especially enjoyed the interior. Not much more to say about this one.
I was certainly expecting to find this puzzle entertaining, but it turned out to be even better than I thought it would be. It was so much fun, even though the 50s is well before my time.
I’m pretty sure this was put together by a German, considering that it features currywurst:
Bratwurst in (preferably spicy) tomato sauce, with curry on top. Usually served with fries or a bread roll. Very popular in the Ruhr area, where Dortmund is, and I quite like it myself.
This type of 50s frock became popular again for a while in the late 70s / early 80s. I remember being quite envious of a friend of mine who got to wear authentic 50s frocks, because her mother had kept her old dresses.
This is one of four puzzles in a series called June’s Journey. I liked the look of all four puzzles and bought them immediately, and then I found out that June’s Journey is actually a hidden objects type game for mobile, with a story set in the 20s. I tried the game, it seemed nice, but it needs a bigger screen than the phone that I used had.
The puzzles also have extra objects that are not on the box image. I feel this is different than for example a Wasgij-puzzle, where just a glance at a finished image will give the game away, whereas here you would need a photographic memory for it to make any difference, which is why I’m posting the finished image. Please tell me if you feel my thinking is wrong on this.
Anyway, the puzzle was very entertaining, and, of course, of excellent quality.
This was my second Enjoy puzzle, and it was again a great experience. Great fit and good mix of piece shapes. This proved very difficult to walk away from, and I did it almost in one sitting.
Two of my favourites:
Another 500-piece Clementoni. This was fun and easy, and an unusual setting for Mickey and Minnie. The Chinese characters mean “winter solstice” in Chinese and Japanese (Google photos read the text from the image, and then I could search for it).
This was maybe a bit more difficult than I expected, but still a pleasant little puzzle.
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