I’m back in Helsinki now, but before I left Dortmund, I managed to finish one more puzzle. It’s a nice image by Mordillo, but it’s not a Heye puzzle, but a Clementoni. Up until the artist’s death in 2019, I am only aware of Heye puzzles with images by Mordillo, but since then, Clementoni also has them. This was my first Clementoni with a Mordillo image.

I’ve actually done a very similar image before. There, the animals seem to be angry at person relieving himself against a tree, and here, it’s a hunter. Many of the animals look the same, or at least very similar. This was a fun, and fairly quick puzzle.

This turned out to be even more fun than expected, I thought having the same word (“LIFE”) in the same font and colours over and over would be annoying, but it really wasn’t. Also, the background red is not always the same, there were variations, but even so, this was a rare case where I didn’t try to do the text first.

There is no title on the box, but all of the images are covers of Life magazine from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Here are some of my favourites:

I loved all of the space themed images (as usual), and the virus was so much fun (as a puzzle!). I was also surprised how much I liked the images with large crowds of people (it says Dodger rookies on this one).

Great puzzle!

There is no title on the box for this puzzle, but it’s clearly a version of the Disney Cheshire Cat (and indeed, there is a Disney logo on the box). The cat itself was pretty easy, but the background with the green and red dots took a while to do. Great fun!

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.

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”.