Cartoon image with lots of funny details. I did end up using the box image quite a lot, but it was still fun and quite fast.
There’s a multipurpose sports arena, where they seem to be playing American football, soccer, basket ball, golf, baseball and either tennis or badminton, all at the same time:
The local restaurant offers take-away pizza:
Not sure why, but I expected this to be pretty easy. Well, it wasn’t, but it was pleasantly challenging from start to finish, and took me a good long while to complete.
Disappointment doesn’t begin to describe my experience with this puzzle. I’ve had the odd Ravensburger with a missing piece where I’ve suspected that I maybe didn’t lose the piece myself, but I’ve never had anything even remotely like this. Seven pieces missing and two extra pieces (doubles) in a 300 piece puzzle. This is is a massive fail in quality control, and I’m shocked to see such a thing with a Ravensburger.
I did contact Ravensburger, and they answered promptly, offering another copy of the puzzle. When I declined, they offered me a choice of any 300-piece puzzle (with normal pieces, like this one, not the XXL-pieces) currently in stock. I guess I’ll take them up at that.
The puzzle was produced in 2022, and it’s part of the Disney 100 series celebrating 100 years of Disney.
This was just as much fun as it looks like. I was actually quite relieved to find that the puzzle had random cut, since some Eurographics puzzles now have a grid cut with just the basic piece shape. I was expecting to do the coffee first, but somehow the blue cupcake with silver sprinkles was the one that stood out the most.
The puzzle came in a pretty nice metallic box:
There was a poster as well, but I didn’t use it.
Another Steve Read image in the Ravensburger My Haven-series. Fun and eaay, as these usually are!
There has been very little puzzling going on this month, I’m afraid, but this was an absolute pleasure. I’m not sure why, but I was a little suspicious of Aquarius, but based on this one puzzle, it seems to be an excellent brand. The pieces are thick and sturdy, and the cut is a grid cut with a good mix of piece shapes. I was prepared to put up with subpar quality, since a collage of horror movies is pretty much the best puzzle image I can think of, but happily, I didn’t have to.
I have a DVD box set of Hammer films, and many of the films in the puzzles are included.
There was also a couple of extra pieces in the box:
The pieces fit with the image in the top row, but they were clearly meant to be discarded (and most of them were).
I loved doing this! There were strong colours and a space theme, and even some text, although it’s so small that I can hardly read it. This was a Eurographics puzzle manufactured in Europe, but with a grid cut (previous European Eurographics have been random cut). There was a good mix of piece shapes and the cut was excellent, so no complaints.
In the image, each planet gets its own pane, and on the far right, there’s the sun, on the far left, a pane for dwarf planets. Here’s a close-up of Earth and Mars:
Another Zozoville puzzle, this time not belonging to me, but loaned to be by friends. This was lovely, and quite easy to do. Notice how the tooth that’s come out also looks happy 🙂
Another adorable Zozoville monster. Like most of the Zozoville puzzles, this was pleasantly challenging. I did the monster first, then the sea, and finally the sand.
This was something different! A wooden Ravensburger puzzle. It’s manufactured in Poland, and it turned out to be very similar to the Trefl wooden puzzles. The cut is excellent, and the puzzle was a complete joy to put together. The pieces are a bit thinner than some premium brands, like Artifact, and they are also smaller (the finished puzzle is 40×27 cm, when a cardboard 500 piece Ravensburger is 49×36 cm), but the fit is great, and the price was very reasonable – I paid 24 EUR for this.
Here’s a close-up of the cut:
There were 40 whimsies, and with the exception of the wizard hat, I think every item can be found in the puzzle itself:
The owl whimsy is even part of the owl:
On the back, there was a pattern, similar to patterns on Trefl wooden puzzles:
It occurred to me that this sort of pattern would be really useful with a puzzle with an ambiguous cut, but it’s not at all needed with an excellent cut like this. Too bad the puzzles that need this never have it.
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