Author: puzzler1909

I share my time between my native Helsinki (Finland) and Dortmund (Germany), where my football team Borussia Dortmund lives. This blog is about my puzzling actvities in these cities.

The Archaeologist’s Desk, 2023-08-22

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Ok, so this is my favourite Aimee Stewart image ever. So far, I should say. I loved it! This was one of those rare cases when I put away the box almost immediately to make the puzzle last longer. It didn’t help much, I still finished it in one sitting. I would very much like to have this in a larger piece count, and this got me thinking that I’ve never seen an Aimee Stewart in a really large piece count. Wouldn’t be nice to have an image in this style with 5000 pieces? I would definitely buy that.

The Archaeologist’s Desk by Aimee Stewart, Ravensburger, 500 pieces. Completed on August 22, 2023.

Thunder Over New York, 2023-08-22

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I just realized, this is my third New York-themed puzzle in a few weeks. Not intentional! This was a gift from a friend, and it’s part of the Ravensburger Star Line, meaning that parts of the puzzle glow in the dark. In this case it’s the lightning as well as all the city lights. It looks really impressive, but you’ll have to take my word for that, since I couldn’t get a photo of it no matter what settings I tried.

Thunder Over New York, Ravensburger, 500 pieces. Completed on August 22, 2023.

Vintage Posters: New York, 2023-08-18

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This is part of Tactic Vintage Posters-series, and unfortunately not one of the better ones in this series. All the pieces are of the basic shape, which I find boring, and the pieces are fairly thin. You also have to look out for false fits. Not all Tactic puzzles are like this, but unfortunately, you never know what you’re getting with Tactic, even within the same series.

I was, of course, expecting this to be a bit of a chore, but against the odds, I really enjoyed it. It was also a lot easier than it looks. I worked the puzzle from the bottom up, and only the text “New York” and the black pieces around it was difficult. I ended up enjoying this a lot more than expected.

Vintage Posters: New York, Tactic, 1000 pieces. Completed on August 18, 2023.

Mother Earth, 2023-08-17

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I’ve done a few eeBoo puzzles, and found them nice, although prone to the odd false fit. Because eeBoo puzzles are quite expensive in Europe, I usually pass on them, but some time ago Puzzle Offensive (a German online store) had an amazing sale with many eeBoo puzzles for 6 EUR, so I got five. This is the first of those. It was an entertaining puzzle, but as before with eeBoo, I did have a few false fits. I wouldn’t like to do a large area of the same colour, but that’s not the kind of image that eeBoo does.

Mother Earth by Maya Hanisch, eeBoo, 1000 pieces. Completed on August 17, 2023.

Seasons of New York, 2023-08-14

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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!

Seasons of New York by Lars Stewart, Ravensburger, 1500 pieces. Completed on August 14, 2023.

Vintage London, 2023-08-11

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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!

Vintage London by Joanne Short, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces. Completed on August 11, 2023.

Gradient, 2023-08-10

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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.

Gradient, Clementoni, 1000 pieces. Completed on August 10, 2023.

Space Colony, 2023-08-07

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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.

Space Colony by Steve Skelton, Schmidt, 1000 pieces. Completed on August 7, 2023.

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: