Category: Eurographics

After School Fun, 2019-12-29

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This was a great puzzle except for the boring cut (all pieces with two tabs opposite). Fun image,  strong colours, and the quality was great. I was appalled that the children are playing hockey in the street, but at least they’re not wearing skates 🙂  Before I started working on this, I assumed they were on a frozen lake, but lakes don’t come with stop signs. The kid with #9 is wearing a jersey that looks exactly like the ones my favourite hockey team, HIFK, wears.

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After School Fun by Patricia Bourque, Eurographics, 1000 pieces. Completed on December 29th, 2019.

I had heard that new Eurographics have this boring cut, but this was my first experience with it. There are still 13 Eurographics puzzles in my to-do pile, no doubt some of them will have this cut as well, but not all. I bought this about a year ago, and my latest Eurographics purchase was about a month ago. I pulled out my newest Eurographics, and that still has the random cut that I’ve always associated with Eurographics:

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There’s also this on the box:

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From now on I’m going to assume that Eurographics has the boring cut unless I see this on the box. And if I find one of these cut with only two-tabs-opposite pieces, I’m going to complain about false advertising 🙂

Another thing a noticed: the one with the random cut is made in Germany:

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Eurographics puzzle that was made in Europe before, it’s always been Canada or the USA.

The puzzle with the boring cut is American:

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Sweet Christmas, 2017-12-25

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Christmassy food collage by Eurographics. Enjoyable, even if I may have done too many of these food collages to get excited about them anymore.

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Sweet Christmas, Eurographics, 1000 pieces. Completed on December 25, 2017.

Canadian Pacific: The Canadian, 2019-07-14 (A Misunderstanding)

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This image is available with 1000 pieces and with 100 pieces from Eurographics, and I actually intended to buy the 1000-piece version. One reason why I didn’t realize my mistake was that this costs almost as much as the 1000-piece version – a bit of a rip-off if you ask me. The quality was normal Eurographics quality, not wood or anything, so I don’t really understand why it was so expensive.  Of course, you’d expect to pay more per piece for smaller puzzles, but 1000 pieces 13.50 EUR and 100 pieces 12.50 EUR?

Anyway, the puzzle was nice and the image is gorgeous.

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Canadian Pacific: The Canadian, Eurographics, 100 pieces. Completed on July 14th, 2019.

Donuts, 2016-02-26

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Collage with donuts. Eurographics has a lot of these collages with food, and I think I OD’d on them a bit, they become a bit repetitive at some point. I still have a couple that I haven’t done yet.

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Donuts, Eurographics, 1000 pieces. Completed on February 26th, 2016.