Tiered Treats, Aimee Stewart

 Wentworth, 210 pieces. Charming colors in this irregular-edge puzzle. 3/5

Kittens in the Drawer, Lesley Anne Ivory

 Elms, 364 pieces. Charming! Always fun to have a lot of cat whimsies. 6/10

nice color line cutting

ditto

jumping on the bed

kitties in motion

Amariah Rauscher, Little Tree Bakery

 Artifact, 564 pieces. Cheerful subject matter with lots going on in the image, including a multipiece whimsy that replicates part of the image. 3/5

animals dining, from image

Dragonfly, Tia Riva

 Elms, 395 pieces. A couple of interacting whimsy groups and a cute false edge matching the unusual actual edge cut. Still enjoying the metallic paper, too, though I don't photograph it well. 6/10

a false edge with a twist, matching the cut of the actual edges

Vikram Madan, Holiday Spirits

 Artifact, 220 pieces. Small and colorful. 3/5

Strawberry

 GoAnywhere, 136 pieces. When you're trying lots of things, some of them may not work as well--I found this puzzle too fiddly even for my tastes--lots of false edges or at least pieces with connectors only on three sides. I also noticed that the back of the GoAnywhere boxes say that most of their puzzles had whimsies, but I'm not sure the majority of the ones I've done have had them. 3/5

Celtic Knot

 GoAnywhere, 160 pieces. I have never been sadder that a laser-cut puzzle company disappeared. There are a large number of perfectly reasonable wooden puzzlers who would hate this puzzle; I thought it was genius, basically a laser-cut five exclamation point Tormentor. (Warning: the image on the box provides far more visual clues than the actual image on the puzzle.) Most laser cutters would struggle with a puzzle with this many dropouts, because they'd have trouble getting the connectors distinguishable enough to really tell you when you'd gotten it right. That wasn't a problem here, despite the small piece size. For added difficulty and frustration, there are a bunch of fake/border knobs, not symmetrically placed. GoAnywhere also had a huge range of technical innovation. I wish we could have seen what they'd have done with modern thicker wood. 5/5

The intersection here is really hard to identify in the individual pieces, but obvious once assembled

Fritilliiaries in a Copper Vase, Vincent van Gogh

 TurtleTeasers, 161 pieces. Fun little puzzle in the standard TT style. 3/5

Las Vegas

 Stave, 445 pieces. Great image and border. 6/10

signifiers of wealth, and also a Victrola

one pair of dice

another pair of dice, and cash

multi piece singer

one-armed bandit

ant+oar+ten+M+ant = entertainment

Amulet and the Lotus Thicket, Lesley Anne Ivory

 Elms, 471 pieces. Many kitties, some cleverly interacting. Good fun! 6/10

not a broken heart, as I first thought, but a full one

tesselated kitties

conga line kitties