This was the last Peliko puzzle in my to-do pile, and I don’t think I’ll be getting any more of them any time soon. While I was spreading out the pieces, I felt optimistic, the pieces felt better than usual, but then I had a lot of trouble of the false fit kind with the yellow wall in the top left corner even though it’s a small area. The image was fairly easy, of course, and it was mostly a pleasant experience, but still, it would have to be a pretty terrific image for me to consider another Peliko puzzle.
Moomin, Peliko, 1000 pieces. Completed on August 27, 2025.
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!
[Christmas Mail], Peliko, 1000 pieces. Completed on June 1, 2025.
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.
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.
[Fish Market] by Mauri Kunnas, Peliko, 1000 pieces. Completed on April 7, 2025.
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:
A Peliko moomin puzzle, as usual without a title, featuring Snufkin and Moomintroll fishing. Peliko puzzles are usually terrible quality, but this is a bit older and marginally better than the currently produced puzzles. I still had some false fits, but the quality of the paper used for the image layer was definitely better than now. I approached this as a bit of a chore, but ended up enjoying it much more than I expected to.
[Snufkin and Moomintroll], Peliko, 1000 pieces. Completed on February 2, 2025.
The title is a play on words, because flea market in Finnish is “kirpputori”, but here the last part “tori” (market) has been replaced by Thor, a god in Norse mythology. The image is from a children’s book in the Tatu and Patu series (I wrote about Tatu and Patu here).
Kirppu-Thor by Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen, Peliko, 1000 pieces. Completed on August 10.
Busy images often lead to me spending too much time looking at the box, but here it was more “Ooh, I just saw the other half of this lamp”, followed by a happy reunion. This was a perfect image, and I enjoyed it immensely despite crappy Peliko quality with false fits.
I’ve arrived safely in Helsinki, and am now quarantining at home.
A cartoon version of the famous Abbey Road album cover with the Beatles. If you were to write down what “Beatles” sounds like to a Finn, you might end up with “Piitles” (especially if pronounced by a Finn). The background is completely different from the famous album cover.
Mauri Kunnas is most well known for his children’s books, but before those, he used to do cartoons for a youth music magazine called Suosikki (“Favourite”), and later he did an entire book about the Beatles.
Piitles by Mauri Kunnas, Peliko, 500 pieces. Completed on May 21, 2021.
An image by children’s book author and illustrator Mauri Kunnas. I always enjoy his images as puzzles, although Peliko is still not my favourite brand. One piece missing.
The Hunt for the Holy Grail by Mauri Kunnas, Peliko, 500 pieces. Completed on May 3rd, 2021.
Another nameless Peliko puzzle. Since there is no title, I don’t know from what city this is, but I think it’s in Finland, since Peliko is a Finnish brand. One website had it listed as view over Turku, but there are houses like this in many Finnish cities, most of them built in the 30’s and 40’s.
Anyway, as a puzzle, this was very enjoyable even though Peliko quality is not that good, but the image was great.
[Over the Rooftops], Peliko, 500 pieces. Completed on January 16, 2021.
An image by Finnish author and illustrator Mauri Kunnas, who makes children’s books where all the characters are dogs. Tassula could be translated as “Paw Town”. It wasn’t exactly an easy image, I ended up relying on the box image quite a lot.
Tassula by Mauri Kunnas, Peliko, 500 pieces. Completed on December 28, 2020.
I was not exactly looking forward to this (I got it with a lot of other puzzles), and it turned out to be quite difficult. It wasn’t helped by the fact that the quality of Peliko puzzles isn’t all that great, but mostly, the problem was the image. After I had spread out the pieces only the pink tongue jumped out at me, but after I had connected those four pieces I was a bit like “Now what?”.
[The Dogs of Winter], Peliko, 1000 pieces. Completed on March 7th, 2020.At first, I couldn’t even tell what pieces were part of the dogs, but when I looked at them long enough, I began to see the difference between white dog pieces and snow pieces. I enjoyed the puzzle a lot more than expected. At this point I was pretty pleased with myself:
The snow on the bottom half was pretty easy, but the final 200-250 pieces, the blurry trees in the background, turned out to be quite difficult. I ended up sorting according to shape but there were still variations in colouring, so it wasn’t like I had to resort to brute force. There was no title for the puzzle, as happens a lot with Peliko.
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