Heye 2025 Catalogue

The Heye catalogue for 2025 is out, and you can download it here! Looks like it might be an expensive year… There’s a new Funky Zoo puzzle (Desert Habitat), and also a new similar series of a street where the different puzzles fit together. The concept is by Marino Degano, but the puzzles are by different artists. I’m definitely getting the Degano section:

There are some nice new puzzles in the Home series by Norman O’Flynn, and a new puzzle in the Inner Mystic series by Andy Kehoe, and I will probably have to get all of these.

I also like the look of the new series Fly High! by Nathalie Bräutigam:

There are also a few new Zozoville puzzles, and the Wanted series has been resurrected (you are supposed to locate a criminal in the puzzle, missing on the box, of course; I wrote about it here).

All in all a very impressive line-up!

Yogaland, 2024-11-06

After many years of intensive puzzling, I’ve now eased up a bit, and spent more time watching movies. I still puzzle, and whatever I do put together will end up here eventually.

This is one of the 2024 Heye puzzles by my favourite artist Marino Degano.

Yogaland by Marino Degano, Heye, 1500 pieces. Completed on November 6, 2024.

No phones allowed in Yogaland:

There’s a very qualified instructor for the cobra pose:

As usual, there’s a puzzle, but I can’t make out which one this time:

Even in Yogaland there are murders, it seems:

There is a performance by Lady Yogaga to look forward to:

Unsurprisingly, I loved this puzzle and all the funny details!

The Show Must Go On, 2024-10-15

This is an older Heye by Loup, and even though the orchestra is rather difficult, I was again impressed by how each figure has their own unique character. Still, I don’t think I would like to do the 2000-piece version, where there’s a lot more orchestra… I have done the 1000-piece version called Score, where there’s a large scoresheet on top that helps a lot. No photo of that, unfortunately.

The Show Must Go On by Loup, Heye, 500 pieces. Completed on October 15, 2024.

The Brightly Coloured Bakery, 2024-10-05

Since painted cakes is one of my all time favourite thing to puzzle, it’s no surprise that I loved this. I also love the Schmidt quality, nowadays it’s every bit as good as Ravensburger, perhaps even better.

The Brightly Coloured Bakery, Schmidt, 1000 pieces. Completed on October 5, 2024.

I’ve been doing less puzzling lately, this was on the table for well over a week, so there will probably be fewer posts in the near future.