This was very enjoyable. I like the way the cosy indoor scene is brought into the very traditional landscape. There are photographic puzzles of this exact view, without the indoor scene, of course. Hallstatt is a town in Austria, known for its salt mines.
There is no information about the image on the box, so I don’t know if this is an actual ancient image or something more recent. As a puzzle, it was quite challenging, especially the white background and the hieroglyphs.
This was reasonably entertaining, although I have to say I’m not really a fan of this artist.
For the puzzle challenge, this will be #1, human anatomy, mostly because of the x-rays:
This was the last item still left on the list for the 2024 puzzle challenge that I’ve now completed. I will probably continue doing the monthly bonus challenges.
A very traditional Alpine landscape. The mountain the background is the Matterhorn, on the border between Switzerland and Italy. As a puzzle, it was enjoyable until I got to the trees. Trees and bushes are perhaps my least favourite things to puzzle, but thankfully, Clementoni is a good brand. For the puzzle challenge, this was #27, a forest.
I started this puzzle in Dortmund back in December, but I’ve had very little time here since then (none in January and a few weekends in February), so I’m actually quite surprised to see it finished already.
On the left, it’s winter, and the people (all with halos) are doing winter sports and partying, while the on the right, they seem only to be partying.
At the table on the right, I think the man in the top hat is supposed to be Elvis, and the woman with the pink glasses Marilyn Monroe. On one of the trees, someone has carved Marilyn ❤️ Elvis.
There are some other familiar characters as well: poor Donald is about to be eaten by a snow man, but on the winter side, Goofy looks quite happy.
As a puzzle, this was quite challenging, especially the summer half, but there were lots of funny details to keep me entertained. I finished the winter half much earlier, and the last things I did were the two green trees.
I got this in 2017, and currently, the image is available as two separate 1000-piece puzzles (also by Heye).
Vintage cars are always fun, and I also enjoyed the summery aspect of this image. The weather in Germany (where I was when I completed this) was vile, and this was a nice diversion. Loved it!
This was, perhaps, the least entertaining Aimee Stewart puzzle I’ve ever done. The puzzle itself is fine, of course, I just wasn’t feeling it, especially in the beginning. It happens sometimes.
Another puzzle from the Abandoned series, and probably the most difficult one of the ones I have. It was the last puzzle I completed in Dortmund this time, I am now back in Helsinki with my car (I took a ferry from Travemünde).
The puzzle was rather slow, but still a complete pleasure. At first all the pieces looked so dark, but it wasn’t long before I started to see different shades. I think this would be very difficult to pre-sort, but fortunately, I don’t do that.
I did the slightly lighter bits, like the popcorn and the clown, early:
At some point, I started to put aside all pieces with text on them, but many were so dark it wasn’t easy to see if there were text or not. Most of the games had names, here we have Truck Monsters, The Wizard of Oz and Hydro Speed.
The creepiest game of all, is, however, nameless:
Loved the puzzle! Also, WordPress reminds me, that it’s the fifth anniversary of my blog.
Another Clementoni puzzle with a Netflix series. I haven’t even watched Squid Game, but I thought this would be an entertaining puzzle, and I was right. I started with the green on the left, then the yellow ball and the doll. I was somewhat surprised to find that I did the red overalls last, but that’s how it turned out.
Queen’s Gambit is a Netflix series about a female chess prodigy. Doesn’t sound that interesting put like that, but it’s a brilliant series, and I was happy to see that Clementoni has a few Queen’s Gambit puzzles. This was also a really interesting image for a puzzle. I did the hair and skin first, then I pulled the yellow pieces for the chess pieces. The black dress was last, of course, and I did sort the pieces by shape at that point. Loved it!
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