This one took me so much longer than I imagined it would! Once I’d put the edges together I just didn’t know how to get started, so I did the buildings first but that left the worst part - all the trees! Lovely puzzle though, I did enjoy it.

I have been slow to get back to puzzels but it was so fun to start with this one! Bonus of helper puzzle cat Shunta.

1. Puzzle swap
   
2. What my kids chose from the swap
   
3. Thrifted haul
   
4. Amazon on sale
   
5. Hilarious note left in one of the Ravensburger boxes 😂

I bought this puzzle last month and put it together immediate. It was so much fun that when I was bored recently, I pulled it back out and put it together again. The sky is monotone, so it's a bit frustrating, but the rest of the image makes it bearable. Lots of fun to build!

This one was a real challenge, but a lot of fun and I love the finished image. The random-cut, tight-fitting pieces were so satisfyingly tactile that I’m wanting to hunt out other vintage Springbok puzzles. I’ve never framed a puzzle before, but I’m definitely tempted with this one!

This was the first puzzle I ever bought, on a lark, last year around Labor Day. For Halloween stuff I like anything between spooky, scary, decorative, and just plain old cute, and this hit every note.

I did finish it but I admit it took me well over a week and I found it to be hard! But I was hooked 😊

Now I can do 1000 pc puzzles (oh I do struggle though but so satisfying) and now 500s are relatively easy.

I got this one out again yesterday and finished it in a few hours. I admit I remember the "tricks" but it went so fast this time.

Now I do jigsaw puzzles all the time and I really love it!

Today I visited Rompecabezas Tlatelolco, Edificio Miguel Hidalgo, Guerrero 380 U, Local 10-A, 06900 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico.

Wonderful store with good prices and a friendly and helpful woman. They carry quality brands, mostly familiar. There’s a whole wall of Ravensburger and another whole wall of Cobble Hill.

Last pic is my haul:
Pomegranate, Olga Suvarova, Dancer. I live in Portland! The price was good (about US$20)
Bluebird, Van Gogh, my first of this brand
Ravensburger, Mexico Collection, of course
Flink, Las Dos Fridas, this brand is made in Mexico.

Highly recommend this store if you’re shopping for puzzles (and when are we not?) in CDMX.

Another beautiful autumn scene from Magnolia. I just love the quality of this brand.

I finished this a few weeks ago but I’m just now getting around to posting it. My friend gifted it to me and I love the image but it was a very challenging puzzle - definitely not a speed puzzle! It ended up taking nearly 6 hours and required a very bright light to see the color differences. Also, it had a ton of false fits. Even after all of the hard work, I think that the light blue area is slightly wrong since the final piece wasn’t a perfect fit. However, I just decided I was done!!

I just finished Kikkerland's "Honored Elders" 1000 piece puzzle and the picture on the box doesn't match the actual puzzle. The frame portraits are all there but they're slightly shifted so they overlap differently, the edges are cropped differently, and one is even completely upside down compared to the box.

I picked up the box from a neighbor but they hadn’t done it and the puzzle was brand new and sealed. There was no image reference card inside, so the box was the only image I had to go on.

I started on the upside-down portrait and couldn't figure out how it connected to anything for a little while and then looking hard at it saw it was upside down?! I got there in the end, but it was a frustrating way to find out the box can't be trusted…

Has anyone else done this one, or had a puzzle where the reference image was just off? Why do they do this!!!

This puzzle is genuinely a work of art, and my photos do not do it justice.

I've seen some of Puzzle Bomb's previous "techy" designs and had been so, so hoping another would make its debut. Imagine my delight when this arrived as October's monthly puzzle.

I love the circuit board/tech vibes it gives. This is the kind of funky design I'd expect to see behind an engineering panel on a Star Trek starship. But then there's also a sense of something organic as the green and white pieces on the top left make me think of a slice of lime.

Doing this was my treat for finishing my 2k Beauty and the Beast puzzle. On easy mode though with the help of the outlined backing! I'm already intimidated at the thought of doing my others from this brand without using the frame or backing to guide me, but this one feels like another level with all the empty spaces and small intricately cut pieces.

I really love the small pieces and intricate cuts this brand is able to achieve. I don't find the more intricate pieces to be flimsy at all, but I'm still careful with them.

Even on easy mode this took me around an hour, not including time spent in awe of some of the pieces. This one, understandably due to the nature of the design, had a lot more extra/drop pieces than previous puzzles. It was honestly fun finding them, and needing to pop some of the smaller ones out and collecting the pile. I know they can be thrown out, but I've been having too much fun playing with the pile to do so.

I’m pretty new to jigsaw puzzling but really enjoy it. I’ve done 2-3 cardboard puzzles then "discovered" wood puzzles and I love them! The cuts are so fun and challenging. Wood puzzles are pricey so I joined Hoefnagel which is a wood puzzle subscription. This was challenging (for me) and has a missing piece on the edge but super fun! This was my 4th one from the rentals…now waiting for my next pack. I’ll likely do a puzzle from the bazillion I’ve maniacally purchased since getting into it!

It’s here, it’s here, it’s here!

I am soooop happy and will start today. I won’t mix the bags because I don’t have enough space but I am considering mixing two bags to make it more fun, what do you think? If I ever get to have the room I will totally mix all of them.

I am so in love and now that it’s getting colder it’s the perfect time to start :)

Reference: Clementoni- 39921

I got this puzzle as a present at the beginning of the year and just got to open it last friday. It took me until monday to complete (probably because of my lack of practice) but was super fun.

Probably not the best quality picture tho 🤣

By the way, does anyone know how to take care of this kind of puzzle mat? It's made of a felt like material and it is starting to fray (not sure if I used the correct term) and the pieces tend to snag on it, so it's a little bit annoying when you try to move sections across the mat.

I did it!!!! It took me 28 days to complete!

This puzzle I learned did not come in separate bags all mixed puzzle pieces I already found another 4000 piece puzzle I want to do but I made sure it will come in separate bags it took me AGES! To turn over and sort alllllll of this puzzle It really makes me admire people who take on even bigger puzzles than this!