I borrowed this puzzle from work. We used to have a puzzle out for the customers in our library, but that was discontinued because of the pandemic, and it’s not started up again, but the puzzles are still there. Many of them were brought in by me, but this is from someone else.

While I usually love text in a puzzle, this was almost too much. There were definitely more pieces with text than without, which made the text less helpful. For a while, I consulted the box quite a lot, but this was still a fun puzzle, perhaps a bit more challenging than I expected.

Many of the presidents are, unsurprisingly, unknown to me. I knew all the more recent ones, starting with FD Roosevelt, but only a few of the earlier ones. The last president on this puzzle is the younger Bush.

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.

For the next week or so I’m not expecting to get much puzzling done. I’m doing other fun things though, going to soccer games, visiting friends, singing Christmas carols in the stadium with 50 000 other fans, and baking cakes 🙂 I still have pictures of puzzles I’ve completed earlier, though, and I’ll be putting up some of those.

I got this one from a friend who did not enjoy it at all. She was like “Take this puzzle, I never want to see it again”. I quite enjoyed it 🙂 The face was the most difficult part, everwhere else there were plenty of clues, like text or the shade of the background colour changing.

I used to dislike doing close-ups of faces, but I seem to have gotten over that.