Tag: 2017

Tarzan, 2017-10-22 (RIP Guillermo Mordillo)

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Argentinian artist Guillermo Mordillo died during the weekend, aged 86. Mordillo and Loup were the first cartoon artist to feature on Heye puzzles in the ’70s, and many of their images are still in production today. The very first Heye puzzle I ever did was a Mordillo, called Mordillo City.  Thanks for all the puzzles, Mordillo! Below is a post I had already written up earlier.

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A Mordillo jungle image, easier than most Mordillos. Managed to lose one piece, maybe because of my cat guests 🙂

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Tarzan by Mordillo, Heye, 1000 pieces. Completed on October 22nd, 2017.

I had some help with this one. While my lifestyle is not compatible with having pets, I sometimes get to babysit the cats of my brother’s family 🙂

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“Let me give you a hand…”
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Here’s the other one 🙂

[Dancing ducks], 2017-09-15

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This puzzle was brought in to work by a colleague, and a lot of people worked on it. It’s an old Schmidt puzzle, I would say probably from the ’70s. The cut is different from the current puzzles, the tabs on the pieces were smaller and less round. The border was a pain, otherwise not as difficult as it looks.

I didn’t make a note of the title, it’s probably not Dancing Ducks.

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Oops, finished but no photo

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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.

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Atlantic City, Eurographics, 1000 pieces. Completed on July 9th, 2017.

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.

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This was a complete misfire, of course, but I kind of like it 🙂

The second puzzle is a bit naughty, but most of the details are missing 🙂

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83 Positions of the Kama Sutra, Boxer, 1000 pieces. Completed on February 19th, 2009.

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 😦

Balancement, 2017-11-05 & 2009-03-03

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This is one of my favourite puzzles. I’ve completed it twice, and I expect I will do it again one day.

 

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Balancement by Kandinsky, 2000 pieces, Ricordi Arte. Completed on November 5th, 2017.

 

Some of my friends have completed it too, and strangely, some find this puzzle very hard, while I think it’s quite easy. It’s never occurred to me before that puzzle difficulty level isn’t an absolute, but that different people find different things difficult. I would love to know why this puzzle seems so much harder to some than to others.

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The image on the box has faded so much that colourwise, it’s not much use anymore, but on the puzzle itself, the colours are still vibrant. Somehow you can’t see that in the photos, but the colours really look quite different on the box.

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There are a number of all-black and all-white pieces, but there is so much variety in piece shape that it’s not a problem. On the photo, the black pieces are already sorted by shape.

A couple of photos from the first assembly in 2009.