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I Brake For UFOs Puzzle from Buffalo Games

I gotta tell you straight up that I thought we were in for a long build when we started this I Brake For UFOS puzzle from Buffalo Games. Featuring art from one of our favorite artists, Aimee Stewart, I could tell that the colors were going to be an issue. Or so I thought. But then, I wasn’t the one doing the sorting. My wife was. I showed up in time to start putting the pieces together so I had it ‘easy’.

I Was Kinda Wrong

In reality, this I Brake For UFOs Puzzle from Buffalo Games came together a lot easier than I ever thought it would. My wife thought the sorting was challenging, but not impossible. My fears of us spending day after day on this puzzle were actually unfounded. We knocked this out a whole lot quicker than I ever thought we would. It was fun. A lot of fun. And another great piece of art from Aimee Stewart.

It helped to use our bright LED puzzle lamp. It made it possible to tell the colors apart. Otherwise, every purple would’ve looked the same. Every blue. Every yellow. Well, you get it. It would’ve been a lot harder for sure without it!

I could not find this puzzle on Amazon. But you can find it in antique malls (like we did), thrift shops and online auction sites!

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Always Fun!

Aimee Stewart’s artwork is always fun. Here are just a few of the great things we found in this puzzle!

I Brake For UFOs Puzzle from Buffalo Games

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The puzzle included a small poster. The pieces fit fairly tightly. Sorting the pieces (if that’s your thing) is challenging, but it was actually not that hard to assemble. We got this puzzle in a trade. It had a note on the box that one of the pieces had been chewed by a dog. Well, yep, they weren’t lying! But it still fit!

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Sunny Side Up Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We’re back home after a week-long vacation. No puzzling for a week. It was tough not to have that place to go during the day, to check out, and relax while working on a puzzle. We decided to get reacquainted with our hobby by doing this Sunny Side Up Puzzle from Buffalo Games. It’s another great work from Charles Wysocki. This one is a tad different than the others we’ve done. It’s quite a bit more whimsical. And very busy. This was a great ‘welcome home’ puzzle.

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How Eggs-Citing!

There’s an egg-stravaganza going on in this Sunny Side Up Puzzle from Buffalo Games. Chickens everywhere. Funny scenes. Funny things. This is definitely one of those puzzles where you have to spend a little extra time after you are done finding all of the neat things in the imagery.

Here are just a few of the fun things to be found!

So much fun!!!

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The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle includes a nice, large poster. That’s a good thing because some of the image is obscured on the box cover so you’ll have to reference the poster. It’s a minor thing but when there are multiple people working on a puzzle at the same time it’s nice to have both a box cover AND the poster. The assembled puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces fit very well (and rather tightly) and the image quality on the pieces is fantastic. We did have a few pieces that were mis-fits, meaning they could easily go into the wrong spot if you weren’t really careful. The colors were great. This is a quality puzzle that brings hours of enjoyment.

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St Augustine Puzzle from Dowdle

Some days you get lucky when you’re out perusing antique malls or thrift shops, looking for puzzles. I hit the jackpot at the West Chester Antique Center outside of Cincinnati the other day. It seemed like every time I turned a corner I came upon a booth full of used puzzles. All in great shape. All at great prices. One of the ones I picked up was this St Augustine Puzzle from Dowdle. We’ve done a number of Dowdle puzzles and enjoyed them all. This one was no exception!

Tough Out Of The Gate

At first glance, I really thought that sorting this St Augustine Puzzle from Dowdle was going to be a nightmare. I usually leave the sorting to my wife. She’s a sorting genius. I’d probably have given up on this one or at least taken 3 weeks to do it. But nope, she got to it and got it done. I have no clue how.

Oddly, from there this puzzle got easier. The pieces are cut so that you can’t get them wrong. That’s a big help. I often found myself putting pieces into place not because I could tell from the image, but from the way the pieces were cut. And they just fell into place! Like boom boom boom! And in no time we were done.

I wasn’t able to find this puzzle for sale on Amazon, but you can get it from Buffalo Games’ website.

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The Last Piece

There is a small poster included with this puzzle. There are numbers on the poster that you can use to identify landmarks in St. Augustine. The completed puzzle is about 16″ high and 20″ wide. The pieces are randomly shaped and fit well. It’s very hard to get a piece in the wrong spot. The colors are bright and the imagery is fun. This puzzle contains 500 pieces and is fairly easy to complete despite the image looking really complicated!

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Ocean Park Puzzle from MasterPieces

My wife can blame me for this Ocean Park Puzzle from MasterPieces. It was my idea to get it. We were at the house of someone that we met on FB that wanted to trade puzzles. After exchanging a few photos, we hauled over 30+ puzzles. I was excited about making a dent in our ‘done pile’. Well, so much for that idea because we came home with 40+ puzzles. Not that I’m complaining. They’re all awesome! But now our ‘to-do pile’ is huge.

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Bring It On!

One of the puzzles I picked was this Ocean Park Puzzle from MasterPieces. I liked the scene in it. I liked the way it felt like working on an actual painting. It had an ‘old-time’ feel to it. From the outset, though, it was obvious this was going to be a challenge. Even sorting the pieces took hours. But we aren’t in a race here. Even with a huge pile of puzzles yet to do, there’s no hurry.

I felt like this was one of my favorite puzzles of all time. I can’t really put my finger on why. It’s like when you go to an art museum and a piece sticks with you days later. You’re drawn to it, but it’s almost like a subconscious thing. Or I’m crazy. Or both!

Great Artist

Artist Art Poulin was behind the art in this puzzle. This is our second puzzle of his work. The first, Roses at Snapdragons, was similar in its feel. And just as great. We will continue to seek out puzzles of his works as we really enjoy them!

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The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 2000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 39″ wide and 27″ high. It completely filled the puzzle board we use. There was no poster included. The image on the front of the box is obscured in places, which is kind of annoying if you need it for reference. The pieces fit fairly well but are somewhat loose. But we did get this puzzle used and that may be why. The image is well-done and fun to look at.

Here are just some of the fun things to be found in this puzzle!

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Moonmeadow Cove Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We think one of the signs that you really enjoy a puzzle is when you spend just as much time looking at the finished art as you did assembling it. The Moonmeadow Cove Puzzle from Buffalo Games is a good example of a really enjoyable puzzle for us. It’s classic Charles Wysocki in many ways. The Americana-style setting. Smoke coming from chimneys. Horses pulling carts. All the things that we usually associate with a Wysocki creation.

Not As Easy As It Looks

We all have different skill levels when it comes to puzzles. We’ve certainly done our share of puzzles. And almost every single one has had its ‘spots’. Those spots that take a little more thought to complete. This Moonmeadow Cove Puzzle from Buffalo Games had its spots, too. The trees were one with their darker colors. The rocks at the bottom were similar, making it a little tougher to know what went where. And the big house in the middle had its challenges too. These were not frustrating challenges, no. They were fun and we really enjoyed this puzzle from start to finish.

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The Last Piece

This 1000-piece puzzle included a poster. The assembled puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces fit tightly. We did have a few ‘false fits’ as we assembled it. You know, those pieces that test you, thinking they go where you put them but they really don’t. The color and image quality are fantastic.

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Next! Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We had just finished a 2000 piece puzzle that took us a good bit of time. We wanted something a little less… challenging. So we grabbed this Next! Puzzle from Buffalo Games and got to sorting. It’s not that this Charles Wysocki work is super-easy. But we always find his art to be relaxing and fun, and usually, a bit easier than some of the puzzles we do. There are common elements in his puzzles. There’s always a heart. The chimneys and smoke are similar. As are the wagons, trees and many other things. But yet each puzzle is still quite different.

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Animal House

There’s a lot going on in the Next! Puzzle from Buffalo Games. All of the locals have brought their animals in to see the vet. Chickens. Dogs. Cows. Sheep. There are objects everywhere and that made this fun. A lot of fun. The trees are always a bit challenging, though.

Hopefully everyone stopped by Jackie’s Jams and Jellies on their way back home!

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 20″ high and 27″ wide. The pieces fit really well. The image is nice and fun and the colors are great. A poster is included that is clear and easy to work from. You can never go wrong with a puzzle of Charles Wysocki’s art.

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Colorful Pencils Puzzle from HUADADA

I am not sure what came over me when we sat down to put this Colorful Pencils puzzle from HUADADA together. My wife and I divided it up after she had sorted it. This puzzle has the letters on the back to help in sorting. If you want to use them, that is. We did. She took the ‘C’ and ‘D’ pieces and I took the ‘A’ and ‘B’ ones. At first, I was overwhelmed. So many similar colors. So many similar shades. “Oh boy”, I thought, “What have I gotten myself into?” But then something clicked. I started picking up pieces and they just fell into place.

I doubt it’ll ever happen again, but I found my side of the puzzle to be pretty easy at least!

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No Laws Here

As I mentioned, this Colorful Pencils puzzle from HUADADA has letters on the backs of the pieces. Just four letters, A-D. You can use them to help sort or not. If you sort. And if you want to. Honestly, with just four letters and 1000 pieces, and areas of the puzzle that are totally different colors, the letters aren’t a huge help. But they do help a bit.

A Light From Above

I found that our puzzle lamp was a big help with this puzzle. The ambient room light (it was the start of fall here) just wasn’t enough to see the different colors of the pencils. With the lamp on, though, they were easy to see. I think that’s how I got into ‘the zone’ and was able to finish my side of the puzzle so quickly.

And no, my wife was not happy that I finished so quickly. I probably won’t make that mistake again!

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The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The puzzle included a huge poster that is the same size as the puzzle. The pieces fit fairly well and we had very few false fits. The pieces are cut just a tad differently than usual, making them fun to put together and hard to get wrong. The image is very bright and colorful and would make for a great framed piece.

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Fairhaven by the Sea Puzzle from Milton Bradley

You won’t find this Fairhaven by the Sea puzzle from Milton Bradley in the store. At least, not new you won’t. It’s an older puzzle from artist Charles Wysocki. We ran across it in an antique mall somewhere. I don’t recall what we paid for it but it wasn’t much. We never pass up on a Wysocki puzzle. But, I admit that about 8 hours into this one we were almost reconsidering that! This was one difficult puzzle. Did we ever get our money’s worth out of this one!

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The Sky’s The Limit

The steamboat and the wharf were definitely the easier parts of this Fairhaven by the Sea puzzle from Milton Bradley. The pieces for those sections fell into place pretty easily. And then came the sky. Oh, yeah, you look at the image now and think “really? looks kind of easy to me”. Well, up close, you can’t tell one yellow from another. Cloud edges become difficult to find. They all start to blur together. This one was tough. But yeah, we really enjoyed the final picture when it came together. This was another great work from Charles Wysocki. And a longer journey for us than usual with his puzzles! We usually finish a 1000 piece puzzle in a few hours. Not this one.

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 26″ wide and 23″ high. The puzzle did not include a poster but really could’ve used one. We did buy this used, so maybe the original puzzle came with a poster. The pieces fit fairly loosely, but again, it was used so maybe that’s from wear and tear. There aren’t many different kinds of piece cuts which actually added to the challenges. Parts of the image on the box cover were obscured. We found that to be very frustrating. Nowhere on the box could you find a decent-sized image of what the completed puzzle would look like.

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In Spring Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We’ve done a good number of puzzles of artwork from Charles Wysocki. They’re very popular, and we can see why. We almost always follow a non-Wysocki puzzle with a Wysocki one. Not that they’re super-easy, but they are often a nice break from some of the really hard ones we’ve done. The In Spring puzzle from Buffalo Games is another great one. It’s an older puzzle, but age doesn’t matter when it comes to puzzles. We love them all, old or new.

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A Little Different

Most of the Charles Wysocki puzzles we’ve completed are views of a large area. Like a main street. Or a countryside. Several houses. Lots of horses. Many trees. The In Spring puzzle from Buffalo Games is a little different in that there’s just one house. One horse. And just a few trees. It’s a very nice painting. This is another one of our favorites.

The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle includes a nice, large poster. The assembled puzzle is about 30″ wide and 24″ high. The pieces fit very well (and rather tightly) and the image quality on the pieces is fantastic. The colors were great. The pieces are thick. This is a quality puzzle that brings hours of enjoyment.

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Pet Parade Puzzle from TCG Toys

This Pet Parade Puzzle from TCG Toys caught my eye at an antique mall because it reminded me of some of the artwork from one of our favorite artists, Charles Wysocki. This puzzle had plenty of challenges. All over. Lots of people. In colorful clothing. Fun things and happenings everywhere. There’s a lot going on here, and when completed, this is a great puzzle to sit back and enjoy.

An Interesting Tale

It wasn’t until we finished this Pet Parade Puzzle from TCG Toys that we found out why it seemed familiar. The artist was Harry (Heronim) Wysocki. Same last name because they were brothers! It seems that the two didn’t have a great ending to their relationship. I won’t go into it but if you’re interested in it, I found a link that tells about them.

We did buy this puzzle used. We noticed a few pieces had what appeared to be ‘scuff marks’ on them. I thought it was because it was used, and not gently used at that. But the marks actually seemed to be from the manufacturing process. Things happen, but perhaps it’s something to watch out for in the future from the manufacturer.

The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle did not include a poster. The assembled puzzle is about 27″ wide and 19″ high. The pieces fit fairly well. The colors were clear and nice. We did not encounter any ‘false fit’ pieces. Everything went and fit where it should.

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