Wonderful new Ravensburger 2000-piece image of a witch’s cupboard. I loved it! Not the easiest 2000-piece puzzle I’ve ever done, but certainly one of the most entertaining. Quality was also great, and there was none of the lift that I’ve seen with some newer Ravensburgers.
This was my second puzzle of the brand Art Puzzle, and I have to say the quality wasn’t as good as with the first. The fit was somehow a bit off, the pieces just didn’t fit together as well as they should. I was never in any doubt whether a piece belonged or not, the precision of the cut was still good.
I haven’t done many images like this, I guess the genre would be romantic / fantasy, but I really liked this image, and it turned out to be a very enjoyable puzzle.
One great thing on my recent trip to Dortmund was getting to all the puzzles that I hadn’t seen for four months. I had forgotten so much of what was there that it was almost like getting 100+ new puzzles all at once 🙂 This is the first one I did, and it was lovely.
At first, I thought Villa Como was a reference to the famous lake Como, but then I realized that the artist is called Como, so that’s probably the explanation.
I got this wonderful puzzle in a swap with Stacey from My Jigsaw Journal. It’s from the MoMA Collection of Galison. Great quality and I love the image! I also enjoyed the irregular cut.
I actually expected this to be a bit more difficult, but it turned out to be pretty easy to pull out all the pieces of a particular colour. I then completed many of the arcs and later put them all together. Definitely not a puzzle where you start with the edges 🙂
Thank you again, Stacey, it’s a great puzzle!
Very enjoyable, as usual! Not the easiest mystery puzzle I’ve ever done, there were so many small faces in this 🙂 Also, I wouldn’t like do a Jumbo with large areas of the same colour, then I would be uncertain if a piece belongs or not, but with these busy images, it’s fine.
I won’t show the finished puzzle here, but if you want to see it, you can find click here. Loved the angry girl 🙂
An extra post today, outside my normal schedule of Tuesday & Friday.
When I set up my spoiler page for the Exit / Escape series, I decided to leave the puzzles within the puzzle to Ravensburger, since they do provide hints. Even though Ravensburger provides hints and answers, I’ve gotten quite a lot of messages from people who want to know exactly how you are supposed to get to the correct answer. Most questions were about the Observatory and some about the Witches Kitchen, and I used to answer them privately. For these two puzzles I’ve now added explanations of the puzzles within the puzzle, and I also split the single spoiler page so that there is one page for joint issues, and then every puzzle also has its own spoiler page. The single-page was getting too long and difficult to manage, in fact, I found that I had inadvertently copy-pasted in some German text about football. Oops 🙂 The spoiler page for the Witches Kitchen is here and the one for the Observatory is here. I also went back and put in links to the individual spoiler pages for all the puzzles in the series where I had posted about them.
I redid both of these puzzles for this little project:
They are so much fun, and also, my photos weren’t good enough to work out all the details I needed for the puzzles. Actually, I think I’m going to continue redoing this series. These two are the ones that get the most traffic on my blog, and the next two are Vampire Castle and Dragon Laboratory. I think they’re up next 🙂 With at least two puzzles (The Temple Grounds and The Curse of the Wolves) I will try to work from photos if I decide to try to explain the puzzles – they were quite difficult.
It also looks like Ravensburger is getting ready to release some new puzzles in the series, Their help page already has entries for three new puzzles: Unicorn, Green House and Toy Factory. The Toy factory looks especially nice, but I’m getting them all as soon as they are available 🙂
A puzzle with Gelinis, gummy bear characters from Germany (the German title is Gelinis on a Treasure Hunt). Germans love gummy bears, small bear-shaped candies. I’ve seen puzzles of up to 5000 pieces with Gelinis, but this is the first I’ve done. It was very entertaining, and also quite easy.
With the puzzle, there were also fake gems that you can glue on the puzzle (glue was also included). Didn’t do that, obviously 🙂
It’s been a while since I did a King puzzle, but I recently got two as a gift. This was more difficult than I expected, and the King pieces are still quite thin, I’m afraid. I was never in any doubt whether a piece belonged in a place or not, and of course, I enjoyed the image 🙂
I’m in Dortmund again (heading back to Helsinki today), and on Friday we beat Frankfurt 4-0, so I was happy to spend the weekend on a football-themed puzzle.
This was a fun and easy puzzle. Trafalgar Square with Nelson’s column and the National Gallery in the background. Another quick one.
And Happy Valentine’s Day! I got this 77-piece puzzle as a freebie with an order. This happens quite a lot in Germany, when you buy for a set sum, you get something for free. I think it’s a way of getting rid of stock they can’t move, and usually what you get is useless, but this was nice. It’s a Schmidt puzzle and excellent quality.
This one came together unbelievably fast! I expected to finish in March but ended up completing it in January.
The map itself if modern, but it’s done in the style of old maps. For a puzzler, this truly is the best of both worlds, because on old maps it’s often difficult to identify places, and on modern maps, there is far too much water (on old maps the seas are full of ships and monsters).
These are images that you might find on old maps.
While relevant, I can’t remember ever seeing the Morse alphabet with flags on a map before. There were also images of various knots, used by sailors, I presume.
I think these are the tools a mapmaker would use.
Finland and Germany.
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