Lovely puzzle with a rather unusual image. The text in the background is the dictionary definition of “summer”, not the lyrics to the song Summer of 69 as I was expecting 🙂
For the puzzle challenge, this is # 22, No people or animals. This was the 30th and final puzzle for the puzzle challenge this year. I have added links to all the puzzles I’ve done for the challenge on my post about it from January.
Nightmare on Elm Street has always been one of my favourite movies, so I had to get this. As a puzzle, it was a bit dark, of course, but there was a really good mix of piece shapes, which helped a lot. For the puzzle challenge, this is # 21 (Cartoon) Villain.
While doing this, I was rewatching the newer It-movies, and I saw a puzzle in It: Chaper Two. Very apt, since the author Stephen King is also a puzzler.
It’s not exactly the season for this image, but I really look forward to getting all Peliko puzzles out of the house. As I have said before, there are always false fits, and I don’t like the ribbon cut. The pieces are also pretty thin, and I don’t think they would hold up well when redoing the puzzle multiple times. There’s only one more Peliko in my to-do pile!
The image as such is nice, it’s by Mauri Kunnas, but unnamed. It wasn’t entirely unpleasant, since you could easily spot any false fits immediately with this image. Still, for my puzzle challenge, this is #12, a brand I don’t like.
This was a wooden puzzle of excellent quality, loaned to me by a friend. It was only 191 pieces, but still took about 2-3 hours to put together. Tricky, but enjoyable!
I’ve never heard of Innovakids before, but according to the box, they’re a German company. Interestingly, the box had text in many languages, including German, Dutch, French and Polish, but no English.
The puzzle was probably commissioned by Aldi to sell in their stores, since their logo is on the box, although my friend bought it second hand in Finland (we don’t have Aldi in Finland).
Excellent cut again by Cherry Pazzi. This was a very enjoyable little puzzle, and a bit easier than I was expecting. Having a few green bubbles here and there helped quite a lot.
This is another puzzle from Tactic’s Come to Finland series. The quality was pretty bad, like it often is with Tactic, the pieces were thin, and many tabs had some lift despite this being a new puzzle. You can see the damage especially in the white area. I really like the image though, and the gradient sky.
For the puzzle challenge, this is #8, winter sport.
A vintage Ravensburger with a bit more vegetation than I prefer. More difficult than I was expecting. For the puzzle challenge this is #27, a mountain.
Another installment in the Zozoville series. This was great fun, as usual, although the yellow background wasn’t all that easy. I did most of the monster almost in one sitting, then I did the edges. Filling in the background was, of course, the slowest part.
For the puzzle challenge, this will be #30, a puzzle published in 2025.
Nice little puzzle, with one extra piece. The bonus monthly challenge for April was about spring, but I don’t seem to have any puzzles with spring images, so I did this instead. In the north, the amount of light varies a lot, from having having very little daylight (or none, if you go further up north) in the winter, to very long days in the summer. When the light increases during spring, this often causes people to become a bit euphoric, which is why I thought this puzzle would fit 🙂
As usual with Peliko puzzles, there is no title, but the image by Mauri Kunnas seems to show a fish market in olden times. It’s probably taken from one of his children’s books. Peliko is unfortunately not a good brand (many false fits), and I had to look at the image a lot while doing this.
For the puzzle challenge, this is #5, a puzzle that I no longer understand why I bought (because of the bad quality and the busy image). There were some fun details, though, like the familiar duck under the bridge:
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