Hartmaze, 172 pieces. Standard Hartmaze random shapes and square puzzle--a perfectly fine entry into the Hartmaze line. 3/5
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Friday, January 29, 2021
Bad Boy of the Forest
Images of Nature, 350 pieces. Tiger! Limited color range is the source of the modest difficulty. 3/5
Summer Scene
Stave, 420 pieces. Nice Stave with picture-in-picture, Winnie the Pooh themed whimsies, and a rebus I actually figured out! 7/10
luncheon |
picture in picture, Sunday on La Grande Jatte-ish |
horse and rider |
Pooh climbing tree |
horse and rider? |
some sort of cart |
tiny vase and flower |
horse and saddle |
internal corners |
Pooh, Tigger, Owl, Kanga, etc. |
R+hen+W+oar = Renoir |
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Rogue Rhino
Life's a Bear
Thomas D. Mangelson's Images of Nature, 350 pieces. Naive hand-cut puzzle with whimsies and relatively thin wood; fine. 3/5
The Pelican King and the Prince
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Paula Jewell, Look Beyond
House of Jewell, 503 pieces. This Etsy seller features original art, including on puzzles. As it turns out, I recognized the cut: the puzzles are produced by createjigsawpuzzles.com using the Victorian cut. The result is large! The quality is fine but the cut repeats a bit so that certain pieces are almost indistinguishable in shape; here the image was generally enough to make them distinct. 3/5
Animal Castle
Monday, January 25, 2021
How to Escape
Chasing Butterflies 66 Mya, Lynon Aksavit
Liberty, 657 pieces. Truly wonderful puzzle with lots of difficulty and some 3-D dinosaurs hidden inside for assembly. 5/5 candidate for my favorite Liberty
now that's just rude for a dinosaur puzzle |
dino skeleton in main dino |
butterfly closeup |
dino skeleton closeup |
3D dino |
another |
non 3D but made of pieces that aren't connected in the puzzle itself |