This is one of the best puzzles I’ve done this year, I absolutely loved it! Obviously, the image is appealing, but that doesn’t always result in a great puzzling experience, but this time, it absolutely did.
Magic Potions, 2022-06-22
Category: Ravensburger
Vintage Still Life, 2024-06-21
This was a bit more difficult than I was expecting, but still I nice puzzle.
Little Sun: Engage, 2024-06-18
The seconf puzzle in the Little Sun series, this was also nice. By the way, unlike some other round Ravensburger puzzles, these do not have a poster. I wouldn’t have used it anyway, but I know some people like them.
Eames Design Classics, 2024-06-18
This puzzle with designs from American designer couple Charles and Ray Eames was so much fun! There are a couple of other puzzles in the series, and I’m definitely getting them as well. The lounge chair and ottoman in the middle definitely look familiar, although I’m not sure if I ever sat in one.
Little Sun: Feel, 2024-06-16
Little Sun is an organization whose vision is “Universal access to clean energy”, and Ravensburger has published three puzzles in this series. This was a very enjoyable and easy puzzle, loved it!
Snow White, 2024-06-10
This is a puzzle from the Disney Castle Collection, where there’s Disney princess and a cross-section of her castle. I always thought they looked like they would be entertaining puzzles, and recently a Finnish discounter offered them all for a very good price. I ended up ordering all ten of them. Of the ten, I only know two of the princesses (Snow White and Cinderella). Anything by Disney produced after ca. 1980 is most likely unknown to me.
I ended up doing the rooms of the castle last, and I started with the sky.
The fateful mirror:
In the cellar, there was a room with magical potions (I assume), and with shackles and a skeleton in a corner.
The Picnic Party, 2024-06-03
I really enjoyed this, but in a larger piece count, it would have been difficult. In my puzzle group, the monthly bonus challenge for June is:
The monthly challenges are communicated like this, although I think I would prefer words. Anyway, I took it to mean a summery scene.
I found the missing piece (in my bed) , but only after I had taken the puzzle apart and marked the box. Oh well.
New Exit Puzzles
I did a couple of Ravensburger Exit/Escape puzzles. On the right, there is Midnight in the Garden, where the backstory is, that you are a vampire looking for a symbol that will guarantee everlasting love and only appears once in a hundred years. I was hoping there would be a bit more colour in the finished image, but it was as dark as the box image. You can have a peek here, if you want to.
On the left is Apocalyptic City, where you are the first person to leave the bunker where you have grown up, to discover if it’s safe. A supercomputer apparently told humanity to go under ground, but now it’s supposed to be safe again. You can see the finished image here.
The Pharao’s Legacy, 2024-05-23
After the immensely difficult and frustrating Borussia Dortmund puzzle this was such a pleasure. The usual Ravensburger 300-piece puzzles are also nice, but I especially like the series with XXL pieces. I’m keeping this for my old age when I will need the large pieces.
Map of Europe, 2024-05-16
This vintage Ravensburger with a pre-Soviet collapse map of Europe was less entertaining than I was hoping. First of all, there were a lot of hairs in the box, both human and animal, I think. While I don’t wear a hairnet while puzzling, I do try to remove any hairs before I pass the puzzle on.
Another thing was that the compass was much further north in the puzzle itself than on the box, which caused me to think I must have some false fits somewhere, even though the fit was the usual great Ravensburger quality. It also didn’t help that the two missing pieces were from the sea.
The actual countries was fun, and unsurprisingly, Finland and Germany came together first.
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