A D-Toys puzzle with an old poster for a feast in Paris on August 13th, 1893. The feast took place on the Champ de Mars, where the Eiffel Tower had been erected four years earlier.
… gymnastics …
… and a storm? Something’s throwing people and furniture around. I have no idea what sort of entertainment this is supposed to be 🙂
This is part of a Clementoni series with a blank, black space in the middle.
Apparently, you’re supposed to write on the blank part yourself. Can’t really see this catching on…
The puzzle itself was enjoyable, and with Clementoni quality even the black part in the middle wasn’t too difficult.
This puzzle shows a board game that every Finnish child has played since it was released in 1951. There are round markers that are distributed on the red dots, and one of those represents the Star of Africa, a diamond, and the object is to find the diamond and bring it back to your starting point (for which you may choose Tangier or Cairo). In addition to the diamond, you may find lesser jewels that can be sold, and then you can fly, or take a boat, to get around faster. You can also turn up a robber and lose all your money. It’s a game of luck, not of skill.
As you can see, there are three different piece sizes, with the big pieces on top and the small on the bottom. The small pieces were really tiny. The quality isn’t that good (as usual with Peliko), but it was still great fun. I’ve played the game countless times as a child, and later as an adult with various children. I especially remember how the 3-4-year-old son of some friends had a meltdown after losing all his money to a robber, sweeping the entire game onto the floor. I remember thinking this is one way Finnish children learn to deal with disappointment, I’m sure I’ve done the same as a child 🙂 It’s also possible to play without the robbers.
Even though the game represents lovely childhood memories to me, it has been pointed out that it can also be seen as an example of European colonialism, with Europeans robbing the wealth of Africa.
This baking ape is a good example of an image that was really fun as a puzzle, even though I don’t otherwise find it all that interesting. The pink background took a while, but all in all, it was pretty easy.
This was very enjoyable. I’ll probably keep the pieces separated, even though it would probably be quite easy separating the images based on colour.
Another instalment in the Exit / Escape-series, and my favourite so far! It was brilliant as a puzzle, and there were more differences between the box and the finished puzzle than usual, and I enjoyed that. The mysteries (7 in this puzzle) were definitely easier than in the other puzzles, I managed to identify and solve two of them without even looking at the clues, and for only one, did I need all the clues.
For the first time ever, the backstory does not put me in mortal danger. An eccentric relative has died, and this time, I’m just looking for his money 🙂 The level indicated on the box is the same as on the Wolves-puzzle, but this was much easier. I loved both the image and the mysteries.
There are further details and spoilers about the series on the dedicated page. There is also an individual spoiler page for this puzzle. Ravensburger has made some changes to their help page, and the links on my spoiler pages have now been updated to reflect those. This puzzle is actually called The Forbidding Basement on the help page, but I’m going with Forbidden, as that’s what it says on the box. On the new page, there’s also a new Exit puzzle, with a unicorn, but if you click on the unicorn, it takes you to the Forbidden Basement. The Unicorn is not available yet at any of my favourite stores, but I expect it will be soon 🙂
I finally got around to finishing the puzzle that my Roomba knocked over. It was actually very enjoyable. If my usual refrain is “This was much harder than I expected”, this was the opposite, quite easy, really. Even though it’s all red, there are different shades and also, the texture of the background varies. In fact, I didn’t look at the box at all while doing this, mainly because I was too lazy to get up and get it. I wasn’t even sure if it was portrait or landscape, I started sooo long ago.
Once again a puzzle I probably wouldn’t have picked out myself, but I got it in a big bag of 500-piece puzzles, and I loved it. In fact, I’ve loved every puzzle I’ve pulled out of that bag, and I’ve been doing the ones I didn’t expect to like first 🙂
I’ve done the yellow puzzle in this series, and I still have the blue one to go.
In this Exit/Escape-puzzle, I’m investigating why a group of settlers disappeared. Turns out, they’ve been turned into wolves!
The puzzle itself was quite challenging, only the sky was easy. The mysteries were a lot more difficult than in the previous puzzles, and I couldn’t solve any of them myself. The final solution was, however, quite easy. Since the finished puzzle is different from the image on the box I won’t show it here. There are further details and spoilers about the series on the dedicated page. There is also an individual spoiler page for this puzzle.
This puzzle was brought into the library by someone, and I borrowed it to do at home. It still has all the pieces, in fact, there’s one piece extra. Book covers always make a great image for puzzling. Many of these books I know better as movies, like The Godfather, Gone With the Wind and Tarzan.
My favourite cover is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I’ve read the book, and the movie is brilliant as well, with Maggie Smith giving possibly the best performance of her life. And that’s saying something!
The twins.
A nice and easy one, very enjoyable!
It’s been a long time since I read Peter Pan (or saw the movie), and I have no idea who the bearded guy hiding behind the rocks is.
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