This kind of image can sometimes be more difficult than it seems, but that wasn’t the case here. This was fun, and relatively easy. I bought this used, but it was in excellent condition and complete.
Galeries des Arts, 2023-09-24
Category: Dortmund
Life on the Road, 2023-09-22
An installment in the Ravensburger Apartment Envy-series. This was fun and came together really fast. While van life is not for me (I like the comforts of home far too much), but I have a friend who loves it.
The World of Agatha Christie, 2023-09-21
A puzzle full of stuff from Agatha Christie’s life and books. I recognized a lot of things, and there was a key to the rest on the back of the poster.
Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
While I loved the image, I’m afraid I can’t say the same about the quality. It was no surprise, I’ve done another puzzle in the series, and this was much the same, although I had more false fits than last time (because of the busy image, I think, the quality is the same). The cut was also the same, with only the basic piece shape, except for two pieces:
I don’t think I’ll get any more of these (they are expensive as well), but I might weaken if they do one with Stephen King…
Beautiful Mushrooms, 2023-09-20
This puzzle was just as much fun as it looks like, I loved it! I think this is my first by artist Nathaniel Mortensen, but I hope to see more from him.
This was the section I did first:
There was even a UFO in one image:
Classic Gas, 2023-09-02
This was just as much fun as it looks. I always enjoy vintage ads, and there’s plenty of that here, although Pepsi and Coca Cola are the only brands I actually recognized. Master Pieces quality varies a lot, but this puzzle was ok.
Tropical Island, 2023-01-24
I just noticed that I hadn’t posted about this puzzle that I completed back in January. It’s one of the Crazy Shapes-series by Trefl, and I (vaguely) remember enjoying it.
Alice, 2023-07-30
Disappointment doesn’t begin to describe my experience with this puzzle. I’ve had the odd Ravensburger with a missing piece where I’ve suspected that I maybe didn’t lose the piece myself, but I’ve never had anything even remotely like this. Seven pieces missing and two extra pieces (doubles) in a 300 piece puzzle. This is is a massive fail in quality control, and I’m shocked to see such a thing with a Ravensburger.
I did contact Ravensburger, and they answered promptly, offering another copy of the puzzle. When I declined, they offered me a choice of any 300-piece puzzle (with normal pieces, like this one, not the XXL-pieces) currently in stock. I guess I’ll take them up at that.
The puzzle was produced in 2022, and it’s part of the Disney 100 series celebrating 100 years of Disney.
Cupcake Party, 2023-07-28
This was just as much fun as it looks like. I was actually quite relieved to find that the puzzle had random cut, since some Eurographics puzzles now have a grid cut with just the basic piece shape. I was expecting to do the coffee first, but somehow the blue cupcake with silver sprinkles was the one that stood out the most.
The puzzle came in a pretty nice metallic box:
There was a poster as well, but I didn’t use it.
The Gardener’s Shed, 2023-07-22
Another Steve Read image in the Ravensburger My Haven-series. Fun and eaay, as these usually are!
Surrender, 2023-06-04
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.
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