Another puzzle from the Inner Mystic series by Andy Kehoe. Unfortunately, there’s one piece missing, and I can’t find it. Oh well, it’s a stunning image, anyway.
Cosmic Dust, 2023-02-02
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.
[Astronaut], 2023-01-30
Unfortunately, Clementoni hasn’t seen fit to name the puzzles in the Space Collection, but I’m calling this Astronaut. I’m especially fond of 500 piece Clementonis, and I also loved this image, so a great puzzle!
I’m sure that the equipment around the actual space suit is to help navigate and perform whatever tasks he will need to do, but it looks to me like he’s sitting comfortably in a chair 🙂
For my puzzle challenge, this is #27, space. And with that, I’ve already gone through half the list, 15 down, 15 to go! Not bad, considering the challenge runs for the whole year.
Sweet Treats, 2023-01-29
The brand of this puzzle, Enjoy, was new to me. It’s a Turkish brand, and the quality turned out to be excellent. The pieces are sturdy and there are no false fits. There’s a good mix of piece shapes, and the fit is rather tight. As usual, I really enjoyed doing cakes and pastries, this was a great puzzle!
For my puzzle challenge, this is #12, a brand that is new to me.
Waterfall, 2023-01-27
Traditional landscape, but very enjoyable. I did the sky and sun first, and the white part last. For my puzzle challenge, this is #4, “a phenomenon of nature”.
Puzzler’s Place, 2023-01-26
Another 750-piece puzzle with large pieces. This is a room that I would definitely feel right at home in, and I loved it as a puzzle. I recognize the puzzle on the table, it’s an actual Ravensburger puzzle with a greenhouse. I haven’t done it, although I remember it was a 500-piece puzzle, but the puzzle in the image has 1000 pieces.
For my puzzle challenge, this is #24, a puzzle that fits at least three points (my hobby, a book, and large pieces).
Ludicrous Lighthouse, 2023-01-23
I’m already certain this will be one of my favourite puzzles of the year. There were lots of funny details and non-standard shaped pieces, and I loved doing a non-rectangular puzzle for a change. For the puzzle challenge I’m doing, this is #15, “a lighthouse”.
There were some great whimsies:
An octopus that likes ice cream!
There were lots of these pink little guys all over the puzzle.
The top. The birds all have little crowns, making them king fishers, I suppose.
Fantasia, 2023-01-21
An image from the 1940 Disney movie Fantasia. It was easier than I expected, but I would not like to do it as a 4000 piece puzzle in the Disney 40K monster. I bought this because I remember being fascinated by the bewitched brooms as a child, and that makes it #11 in the puzzle challenge I’m doing, “a puzzle that reminds you of your childhood / youth”.
Corner Bakery, 2023-01-20
This was a lovely puzzle, with my one of my favourite type of image: cakes and pastries. For the puzzle challenge I’m doing, this is #10, “a puzzle with large pieces”. The pieces were twice as big as normal, and the finished puzzle is 80 x 60 cm. I’ll probably be keeping this to do again.
The “pie chart” was my favourite part of the puzzle, but all of it was great, really.
Satyrs, 2023-01-19
This puzzle was originally released in 2011, but I missed it then. Six years later I managed to find a copy on Amazon. That makes this #23 in the puzzle challenge I’m doing, “a puzzle long searched for”. They probably didn’t make many if these, it seems to be quite rare.
Satyrs are creatures in Greek mythology. They were companions of Dionysus, and the image here is of a big party.
The band:
There’s not only a black sheep, but also a wolf in sheep’s clothing:
Those are stamps, right? Not sure why a satyr would think stamps are the key to seduction, but then they weren’t very smart 🙂
The Music Room, 2023-01-16
This was a lovely puzzle to do, and also quite easy. For the puzzle challenge I’m doing, this will be #1, a guitar (I found three guitars in the image).
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