Excellent cut again by Cherry Pazzi. This was a very enjoyable little puzzle, and a bit easier than I was expecting. Having a few green bubbles here and there helped quite a lot.
Lionfish, 2025-05-11
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.
Superhero Movie, 2025-05-08
Very entertaining cartoon style puzzle where a movie is being shot.
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.
For the puzzle challenge, this is #8, winter sport.
Swiss Farm House, 2025-04-28
A vintage Ravensburger with a bit more vegetation than I prefer. More difficult than I was expecting. For the puzzle challenge this is #27, a mountain.
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.
Junk Food, 2025-04-14
Another installment in the Zozoville series. This was great fun, as usual, although the yellow background wasn’t all that easy. I did most of the monster almost in one sitting, then I did the edges. Filling in the background was, of course, the slowest part.
For the puzzle challenge, this will be #30, a puzzle published in 2025.
Unicorn, 2025-04-10
Nice little puzzle, with one extra piece. The bonus monthly challenge for April was about spring, but I don’t seem to have any puzzles with spring images, so I did this instead. In the north, the amount of light varies a lot, from having having very little daylight (or none, if you go further up north) in the winter, to very long days in the summer. When the light increases during spring, this often causes people to become a bit euphoric, which is why I thought this puzzle would fit 🙂
[Fish Market], 2025-04-07
As usual with Peliko puzzles, there is no title, but the image by Mauri Kunnas seems to show a fish market in olden times. It’s probably taken from one of his children’s books. Peliko is unfortunately not a good brand (many false fits), and I had to look at the image a lot while doing this.
For the puzzle challenge, this is #5, a puzzle that I no longer understand why I bought (because of the bad quality and the busy image). There were some fun details, though, like the familiar duck under the bridge:
Vacation Mickey, 2025-03-29
Despite the border I did the edges first with this one. The colours are a bit muted, and the puzzle was more difficult than I was expecting.
For the puzzle challenge, this is #1, a selfie. I actually thought I wouldn’t find a selfie among my puzzles, and I was thinking of getting a puzzle with a self portrait by Frida Kahlo, but then I saw a photo of this puzzle on FB and realized that I have it, and that right in the middle they are taking a selfie.
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