Vintage cars are always fun, and I also enjoyed the summery aspect of this image. The weather in Germany (where I was when I completed this) was vile, and this was a nice diversion. Loved it!
Fun in the Sun, 2023-12-11
Tag: 2023
Colour Frenzy, 2023-11-29
JaCaRou was a new brand to me, and it turned out to be excellent. A grid cut with a good mix of piece shapes and very distinctive pieces, and just tight enough that you can easily move sections around, but not so tight it’s a pain to take apart. Since it’s a Canadian brand, the puzzles are quite expensive in Europe, but the quality is so good that this won’t be my last JaCaRou, although I won’t be able to buy that many of them.
The image was a bit more challenging than I had anticipated, but with such a good quality puzzle it was truly a joy to do. Loved it!
Fairytale Fantasia, 2023-11-26
This was, perhaps, the least entertaining Aimee Stewart puzzle I’ve ever done. The puzzle itself is fine, of course, I just wasn’t feeling it, especially in the beginning. It happens sometimes.
Every Life Asks For Nature, 2023-11-10
Another Stenvall duck puzzle, another very strange title. This time the duck is clearly meeting someone, probably for a date if the flowers are anything to go by. I really enjoyed the sky and the volcano, but a bit less grass would have been nice. As usual with these puzzles, it wasn’t as difficult as it looks.
Books, Bits & Bobs, 2023-11-05
This was just as much fun as it looks. As expected, the large text on top was the only thing even remotely challenging with this, and even that was pretty easy.
One Doesn’t Drown, 2023-11-04
Back to the Stenvall ducks. This time, a duck walks on water. Fortunately, this was an excellent quality puzzle, otherwise it would have been really hard. I did the yellow bits first, then the rocks and the white in the foreground. After that it became difficult, and at first, I wasn’t even able to tell which pieces were water and which sky, but as usual, after a while it started to make sense. I ended up doing the water first, and finally the sky. Not easy, but very satisfying.
Forgotten Arcade, 2023-10-28
Another puzzle from the Abandoned series, and probably the most difficult one of the ones I have. It was the last puzzle I completed in Dortmund this time, I am now back in Helsinki with my car (I took a ferry from Travemünde).
The puzzle was rather slow, but still a complete pleasure. At first all the pieces looked so dark, but it wasn’t long before I started to see different shades. I think this would be very difficult to pre-sort, but fortunately, I don’t do that.
I did the slightly lighter bits, like the popcorn and the clown, early:
At some point, I started to put aside all pieces with text on them, but many were so dark it wasn’t easy to see if there were text or not. Most of the games had names, here we have Truck Monsters, The Wizard of Oz and Hydro Speed.
The creepiest game of all, is, however, nameless:
Loved the puzzle! Also, WordPress reminds me, that it’s the fifth anniversary of my blog.
The Halloween House, 2023-10-10
Lovely little Halloween puzzle with large pieces. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy this all that much, but it was nothing to do with the puzzle. I had a cold and was running a fever when I did this, and was really incapable of enjoying anything. This puzzle deserves better. Anyway, I’m all better now. Happy Halloween!
Squid Game, 2023-10-24
Another Clementoni puzzle with a Netflix series. I haven’t even watched Squid Game, but I thought this would be an entertaining puzzle, and I was right. I started with the green on the left, then the yellow ball and the doll. I was somewhat surprised to find that I did the red overalls last, but that’s how it turned out.
Queen’s Gambit, 2023-10-22
Queen’s Gambit is a Netflix series about a female chess prodigy. Doesn’t sound that interesting put like that, but it’s a brilliant series, and I was happy to see that Clementoni has a few Queen’s Gambit puzzles. This was also a really interesting image for a puzzle. I did the hair and skin first, then I pulled the yellow pieces for the chess pieces. The black dress was last, of course, and I did sort the pieces by shape at that point. Loved it!
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