FoxSmartBox, 425 pieces. It's been a while since I've done a puzzle with a lot of engraved whimsies, and the break let me appreciate the fun things about them! This one has an elaborate edge and a nice multipiece Ferris wheel. 3/5
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Monday, November 17, 2025
Majestic Harvest
Foxsmartbox, 487 pieces. Image looks dark but had sufficient guidance; paper peeling from a lot of corners. 3/5
Monday, November 10, 2025
Yury Namestnikoff, Dali's Clocks
Monday, June 17, 2024
Amusing House
FoxSmartBox, 366 pieces. Nice enough puzzle, but they don't have the teaser thing figured out the way Fathom is doing--I have no idea whether my solution was right, but it was possible. 3/5
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Circus
FoxSmartBox, 159 pieces. A somewhat less successful "Teaser" style laser-cut puzzle; I am not sure that I got the solution right. Still, nice colors and some fun assembling the frame. 3/5
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Smart Fox
FoxSmartBox, 170 pieces. The folks at FoxSmartBox are trying good things to compete; here they highlight how much further Fathom Puzzles has gotten in laser cut teaser-style puzzles. This puzzle has cute fox-head connectors for the frame, then relatively easy fitting for the first layer of whimsies inside the frame, and then things get a bit loosey-goosey. I prefer my cluster puzzles to allow clear fit/don't fit judgments in most cases, though sometimes that's impossible, and there was more wiggle room here than I would prefer/more than Fathom has. Nonetheless, it's an impressive technical achievement and I look forward to further improvements. 3/5
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| the teaser pieces |
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Yellow-Red-Blue, Wassily Kandinsky
FoxSmartBox, 300 pieces. I love geometric cuts and this is a good addition, though I think they might have used the same geometric cut on multiple images. 3/5
Monday, December 19, 2022
The Swan Princess, Mikhail Vrubel
Friday, December 2, 2022
Sea World
FoxSmartBox, 333 pieces. This strikes me as somewhat less sophisticated in its whimsies than the other puzzles from them I've done--just the basic sea creatures--but the colors are fine. 3/5
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Alice's Fantasies
FoxSmartBox, 439 pieces. Nicely detailed themed whimsies, which are very much FoxSmartBox's strength, though prices are drifting up so it's not much of a deal v. Liberty. Still I'll probably keep buying them for the variety. 3/5
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| These were supposed to be flipped but I guess it's an upside down tea party |
Thursday, November 10, 2022
A Sea-Spell, Dante Gabriel Rosetti
FoxSmartBox, 300 pieces. Another heavily individualized design that is a fun, steady build. It's nice to see newer makers putting in effort to create enough variation that each puzzle has something different. 3/5
























































