This was a new Heye puzzle, from this year, and the artist Lectrr is new to me as well. The puzzle was fun, although I ended up looking at the box more than I was expecting.
The police seems to be looking for a cat:
There something rather alarming in the car crusher:
The ice cream truck looks really good to me right now, we’ve had an unseasonable heat wave in Finland:
A Heye puzzle from the Exotic Garden series. I’m not usually a fan of vegetation, but this is stylized enough to be interesting. It was OK, but I don’t think I’ll be getting any of the larger puzzles in the series. It was surprisingly challenging, despite the colours.
This puzzle was every bit as entertaining as it looks! I was also happy to find the quality perfect, since I have heard that since the pandemic started, Buffalo has had some issues.
It was a bit like having two images, one traditional landscape in the window, and the inside of the train. Loved it, and I’m going to keep this!
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.
Calypto was a new brand for me, a French one, and the puzzles are manufactured in France. It started out well, a grid cut with a good mix of piece shapes, and the cut is nice. The pieces have a waxy finish. There is also a poster that is as big as the finished puzzle. On the box image, the clouds in the sky are different from the puzzle, but poster and puzzle are the same.
I’m sure you can see where this went wrong – there are seven pieces missing.
There were also two pieces with doubles:
This is not a good look for a new brand, I’m afraid.
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.
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.
Another installment in the Clementoni Space Collection. I really enjoyed this one!
This was actually more difficult than I was expecting it to be. I started with the flowers, pulling the pieces for one colour at the time, and filled in the rest here and there.
This a wooden puzzle by Trefl, and the quality was again excellent. I found both the cut and the image really entertaining.
There were quite a lot of whimsies, many of them with a Mickey-theme:
Here are some of my favourites:
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