This was a great, unique puzzle. The images are photos taken from space by French astronaut Thomas Pasquet. There was a similar 500-piece puzzle, and I’m now kicking myself for not getting that as well. They are now both out of print.
I’ve done a few Titanic puzzles, but this is probably the best so far. Clementoni is an excellent brand, and there are many interesting details in the image. Text is always a huge plus 🙂 I really loved this, and will probably do it again one day.
Christmassy food collage by Eurographics. Enjoyable, even if I may have done too many of these food collages to get excited about them anymore.
A painting by Robert Delaunay from 1930. This worked great as a puzzle and I enjoyed it very much.
There was one strange thing, though. We all know about pieces that fit where they don’t belong, but here I had the inverse problem of a piece not quite fitting where it very definitely does belong. Even though the photo is a bit blurred, you can see that two of the edge pieces don’t quite fit. There weren’t many edge pieces of this particular colour, though, and this was the only way to put them together that worked .
This took me almost two months, must be my record for a 1000 piece puzzle 🙂 It was really difficult, Mordillo’s big nose characters are difficult to tell apart. I did this in honour of the 2016 European Championship, and ended up finishing after the tournament was over, on the day of the final. I did some other puzzles in between, of course.
Protests in various languages by my favourite artist Marino Degano. This was originally released in 1994 as a 4000 piece puzzle called Pro and Contra.
There’s a bit of advertising here “Fun for hours on end – Heye Puzzle”, fighting peace protesters, and also a couple of football fans. Below on the left, a guy holds a sign saying Aux chiottes l’arbitre (To hell with the referee in French), and he’s wearing an Adidas shirt. From the colours, I thought of Bayern Munich first, but since the sign is in French, it may be a French team that I don’t know. The guy next to him is definitely a Juventus fan. Then there’s the lady holding up the Hamburg forever sign – may or may not be football-related.
An elephant holds up a sign that says “You have to be completely insane to do a puzzle like this” in German 🙂
This baking ape is a good example of an image that was really fun as a puzzle, even though I don’t otherwise find it all that interesting. The pink background took a while, but all in all, it was pretty easy.
This was very enjoyable. I’ll probably keep the pieces separated, even though it would probably be quite easy separating the images based on colour.
This is my only Serendipity puzzle so far. I don’t think they’re active anymore, I tried to look them up, but the last post on their FB page is from 2012, and the website is no longer online. Anyway, the quality is excellent and the cut irregular. The image is interesting and unusual. I have no idea if it’s connected to a book or movie or something, or if it’s just a random dragon image. It was actually quite difficult, all the dragon pieces looked the same before they were put together.
The second part is probably the most difficult one in this puzzle. Water, rocks, and sky are fine, but I’m not too fond of forests or grass, for some reason. One more section to go!
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