Unfortunately, I only have a very small photo of this puzzle. The manufacturer, Dino, is from Eastern Europe, and the puzzles are affordable, but unfortunately the quality is not all that good. Pieces fit where they don’t belong. Also, they don’t name their puzzles, I made up the title.
This is one of the easiest 1000-piece puzzles I ever completed. It was easy to pick out the pieces for each ad, and the great Ravensburger quality helped as well.
Sometimes I finish a puzzle but forget to snap a photo. I found two cases where I have in-progress photos, but none of the completed puzzle.
This was the first puzzle I completed in my flat in Dortmund, but I was in such a hurry to get onto the next one that I forgot to take a photo after I finished. We also did it at work later, but I don’t have a photo from then either 🙂 It’s a nice puzzle, and I expect I will do it again one day.
The second puzzle is a bit naughty, but most of the details are missing 🙂
I did finish this, although the quality was really bad. I’ve never heard of the brand, Boxer, and I’m pretty sure they usually don’t produce jigsaw puzzles 🙂
Sadly, I see from my records that I have finished more than 70 puzzles in the last 12 years for which I have no photos 😦
Great puzzle by my favourite artist Marino Degano. A keeper, obviously.
A collage of beers by Austrian brand Piatnik, and amazingly, there’s a Finnish beer in there, last on the second row from the bottom (Lapin kulta).
So, I completed this in 2009, and then gave it away, but I just realized, I still have it. I bought another copy in 2017, so that I’ve now bought a new copy of this puzzle twice 😀 It’s happened with DVDs, I’ve bought the same twice by mistake sometimes, although never one that I had already watched. I like these collages, but clearly, it was not all that memorable. I’ve not completed the new one yet.
This image is an ancient Roman fresco from Stabiae (a town near Pompeii that got destroyed at the same time). It’s very beautiful, but man was it difficult! You would think that the female figure at least would have been easy to pick out, but somehow wasn’t. I don’t have this anymore, but looking at it now I almost wish I had kept it.
I used to get all the puzzles I could find with images related to ancient Greece and Rome. (Before I became an engineer I studied Latin and ancient Greek.) Sometimes this got me into some unpleasant puzzling experiences, but this was nice, if conventional.
Again a puzzle that’s missing from my records, so completion date is actually the date I took the photo.
My first and so far only D-Toys puzzle. I remember I was not impressed with the quality, but now that I look at the cut it seems fine to me. They have some nice images, and someone recently praised the quality on the FB jigsaw group, so I might give this brand another go.
As for the image, I’m not a fan of the style. I may be way off, but it looks at least computer-assisted, and it definitely lacks the wonderful expressiveness of Degano, Loup or Ryba.
An image from probably the most popular German cartoonist of all time, Loriot, who died in 2011, aged 87.
The text says “The duck remains outside!”.
I don’t know how well known Loriot is outside Germany in general, but we had several books with Loriot cartoons in Swedish when I was a child, and I loved them.
The puzzle itself was otherwise easy, but I remember that the blue parts took quite some time to finish.
Lupu is a small brand, I think it’s Danish. About ten years ago they had a series of fragrant puzzles, where some of the pieces felt a bit rough when you touched them (exactly like with glow-in-the-dark puzzles), and if you rubbed those pieces, they would emit a fragrance, in this case smelling of oranges. There was also one with chocolate, but this is the only Lupu puzzle I’ve ever done.
The quality was good, but if you happen to come across one of these fragrant puzzles, I’m pretty sure the fragrance has dissipated in 10 years 🙂
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