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Photomosaics: Earth - Buffalo - 1000
This one was a fairly unique challenge. The image is a photo mosaic so each piece consists of a few images. Without the surrounding context of the larger image, it’s very difficult to know where the piece goes. I used the reference image on the box to build out the continents first - the challenge here was how small the thumbnail photos are. Then i assembled the water purely by piece shape - first sorting the water pieces by shape.
The water section wasn’t much different than doing a solid color puzzle. I paid very little attention to the pictures on the pieces once they had been sorted.
Castle in the Sky, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Ensky - 366
A Christmas present from my brother. He picked this up in Japan. The pieces are thick hard plastic and the edges fold in to simulate a canvas. It comes with a little mounting point on the back to hang it up on the wall. This puzzle was really fun and novel.
The Sea at Satta - Flame Tree - 500
It’s a beautiful picture and should have been really easy, but it was a bit challenging due to a very large number of false fits.
The Herring Net - Springbok - 500
This puzzle was pretty difficult. The sky was super tedious. As one can see, there are a handful of missing and chewed on pieces.
Pokémon Kanto Region - Buffalo - 1500
This was my first 1500 piece puzzle. My daughter picked it out. It was really fun and fast.
Krypt(gold) - Ravensburger - 631
I’ve completed three of these solid color Krypt puzzles now, and this was definitely the hardest so far.
I Am Elephant - Madd Capp - 645
This puzzle was awful. All the pieces looked the same and most of them fit together indiscriminately.
Marvel Spider-Man - Clementoni - 1000
This puzzle came missing a piece in the bottom left corner. If it wasn’t such a tedious puzzle, I would have just moved on, but I decided I’d reach out to Clementoni to see what they’d say, and they said they’d send me a whole new puzzle.
I stored the puzzle in the box in very fragile sections, and when the puzzle arrived, I carefully reassembled it.
And I found the piece within the first couple hundred pieces I looked through. Not surprisingly, the image is slightly off and the piece didn’t fit well. Fun experience, though.
Seattle Great Wheel - Dowdle - 500
On vacation on the coast near Portland, OR. Found this puzzle last night at the Air B&B.
Bilbo and the Eagles - Sophisticated Games - 1000
This puzzle was pretty challenging.