Excellent quality puzzle by Anatolian. Despite the dark bits it was fairly easy, The movie being shown at the drive in is 100 Rifles from 1969, starring Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds and Jim Brown.
Friday Night, 2022-04-17
Tag: 2022
Dog Show, 2022-04-16
Fun image that turned out a bit easier than I had expected. I thought I would have to look at the box quite a lot, but that wasn’t the case this time.
Lots of dogs looked like their owners:
There’s a royal visitor! I already noticed that the old lady wore a style very similar to what queen Elizabeth does, and the dog looking like a (very naughty) corgi and having a crown on its back clinched it.
NYC Apartment, 2022-04-15
Wonderful puzzle from the Ravensburger Apartment Envy-series. This was every bit as entertaining as I was expecting it to be.
Unfortunately, I seem to have lost a piece:
I competed the puzzle within one day, and I didn’t leave my apartment during that time. I did have a good look around, but I couldn’t find the piece.
The Sea at Satta, 2022-04-14
I’m back in Dortmund for Easter, and started off with this beautiful puzzle. It’s a woodblock print from 1859 by Japanese artist Hiroshige. The mountain in the background is mount Fuji.
Not the easiest puzzle I’ve ever done, but well worth it for the lovely image. At the end, I had maybe 120 pieces that were all white, but there was a good mix of piece shapes, so that helped.
Coca Cola: Evergreen, 2022-04-10
I managed to find a Buffalo puzzle! I bought it used, and unfortunately, I forgot to ask the seller where she got it. Buffalo puzzles are not usually available in Finland, and this is only my second.
I was expecting this to be quite difficult because of the many white ColaCola texts against a red background. It wasn’t the easiest puzzle I’ve ever done, but when I got to the white-on-red texts (I did those last), I found it was possible to pick out the pieces for a particular logo.
I really liked this puzzle, and I actually also like coke – too bad you can’t get a bottle for 5 cents anymore 🙂
Matterhorn in the Mirror: The Blue Lake, 2022-04-08
A very traditional image, but mostly fun. I did the blue bits first (both sky and lake), then the mountain, the path, and finally the vegetation. Trees close up are one of my least favourite thing to puzzle, so the last 200 pieces of the tree on the left were a bit of a pain, but otherwise, it was an enjoyable puzzle.
Beer, 2022-04-06
This was the second time I’ve done this puzzle. Not the same copy, though, I’ve bought it twice. It happens, both with puzzles and DVDs, but usually only if I haven’t done / watched the first one yet. In this case, I completed the first puzzle in 2009, and then bought another copy in 2017. As you might expect, it’s a nice but unremarkable puzzle 🙂
No Tie, Please, 2022-04-03
This was so much fun! The image is by German cartoon artist Uli Stein, and the woman is saying “Why can’t you just say straight out that you don’t want a tie for your birthday this year?” The name of the puzzle in German is “Keinen Schlips Bitte!”, I’ve translated it in the title of the post.
The different colours and patterns of the ties made for a very entertaining puzzle, and the reasonably calm background also made it easy. This was the fourth puzzle I’ve done from my local charity shop in Dortmund, and the first to have all the pieces.
On the back of the box, there were more puzzles with images by Uli Stein, but I can’t remember having seen any of them previously. They all look like fun!
Himmel, 2022-04-02
I managed to finish Himmel. This was so much more difficult than I expected it to be. It became more entertaining towards the end, but somehow, I also expected this to be more fun than it actually was. The image is a painting from 1914-1915 by American modernist Marsden Hartley, who was in Berlin at the time. The title, “Himmel”, is also present in the image, and it’s German for sky or heaven. In this case, it’s should probably be translated as heaven, as there is another word in the painting, Hölle, which is German for hell.
Motoring Memorabilia, 2022-03-30
For some reason, I really enjoy puzzling vehicles, not just cars, but trains and ships as well. Otherwise, I’ve never been that interested in cars, but I love them in puzzles. Add some signs with text, and I’m pretty much guaranteed to love a puzzle – and I did!
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