Tall Tower, 629 pieces. This is a pleasant puzzle with difficulty mainly stemming from piece size. 3/5
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Friday, October 29, 2021
Baffling Bubbles
Nervous System x Chris Yates, 212 pieces. Sugary Cereal color. Crossovers arrive to wooden puzzles (next up when I can get to it, the Par x Stumpcraft collaboration). I really enjoyed this--it has a lot of tricky connectors and somewhat deceptive color combinations. 4/5
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Joe Vaux, Season of the Rabbit
Artifact, 300 pieces. I like the piece style a lot--monster parts (sometimes whole monsters, but it's fun that it's not always so). 3/5
Monday, October 25, 2021
Tyson Grumm, Slacking Pandas
Kandinsky, Far Away
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Hot Pursuit, Norman Thelwell
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Summit Sunrise, Mike Lathrop
Puzzle Lab, 200 pieces. Very difficult because lots of the pieces fit, or seemed to, in different places and there wasn't always a ton of guidance from the image, though there was enough for me to do the puzzle with confidence (albeit the last piece I placed required moving a piece on the edge from where I'd had it and shifting it to the interior; once I'd done that, the superiority of the placement was clear). 3/5
Howard Robinson, Tiger, Tiger
PG Wooden Jigsaws, 150 pieces. English brand I heard about in the Facebook wooden puzzle group, I think. Cute enough and I like the subject; quality a little splintery, a lot like Images of Nature in the US. 3/5
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Lady Liberty
Enigma, 502 pieces. New seller of hand-cut puzzles on eBay; not clear whether puzzles are used but this one arrived in good condition. Very difficult because of minimal color variations across wide swathes as well as a lot of irregular edges. Still not sure where the boy in the baseball cap was supposed to go. 4/5
King Kong on the Empire State Building |
Mini Lady Liberty |
Friday, October 8, 2021
Baby
A.J. Crippen, 100 pieces. Somewhat unusual cut shapes, interlocking, fading on the image--medium quality vintage. 3/5
Bill Carman, Golden Whistle
Monday, October 4, 2021
Vikram Madan, Physical Impossibility
Artifact, 292 pieces. I can't say I get the title--is it about an alien abduction of an alien?--but it's a cute image (or images within image, including at least one from another Artifact puzzle). 3/5
Melodramas in the Mist
Stave, 650 pieces. Americana and mist (which helps disguise the variations from modern perspectival illustration). Some cute interacting whimsies and a coach-and-horse combo drawn from but not color line cut along the images (along with a bit of color line cutting for some of the smaller figures). 7/10
well met? |
spider 1 |
interacting birds |
a house |
interacting boots |
dragonflies, another house |
spider 2 |
interacting trees |
carriage and horse |
cow+N+tree chair+M = country charm |