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Confection Street Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We can always count on a Charles Wysocki puzzle to cheer us up and provide us with hours of fun. And to challenge us, too. The Confection Street puzzle from Buffalo Games was another real joy to assemble. The storefronts, the wagons, the people and balloons were great fun. And really fairly easy to put together. Then came the trees and the sky. I think if this had been a 500 piece puzzle the trees wouldn’t have posed such a challenge. But at 1000 pieces, the details are smaller and it took a bit of time to complete them. That’s okay. We’re not in a race here.

Thoughts On Used Puzzles

We got this Confection Street puzzle from Buffalo Games at an antique mall south of Indianapolis for $1. It had definitely been assembled before. The box was worn and the folds in the poster showed age. We’ve had great ‘luck’ buying used puzzles. So far I think we’ve only run into one that had a missing piece where it wasn’t indicated on the box that it was gone. One thing that we always look for is that the pieces be in a sealed bag. Hopefully, that means it’s less likely that someone opened the box and a piece fell out only to not be replaced. It also means someone spent the time (and money) getting a bag out, taking the puzzle apart, and putting the pieces into a bag and sealing it. I wouldn’t think you’d go through all that trouble normally for a puzzle if it was missing pieces. At least I hope you wouldn’t!

Buffalo Games – Silver Select – Charles Wysocki – Charles Wysocki – Confection Street – 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle For Adults -Challenging Puzzle Perfect for Game Nights – Finished Size is 26.75 x 19.75

The Last Piece

This is a 1000 piece puzzle. It includes a very colorful poster that is nice and large. The assembled puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces are fairly thick and fit fairly well. The image quality on the pieces is very good. The colors were great and bright. This puzzle was fun to assemble and even more fun to sit back and enjoy.

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Virginia’s Nest Puzzle from Buffalo Games

It’s not that the Virginia’s Nest puzzle from Buffalo Games was super-easy. Not at all. But it was a whole heck of a lot easier than the puzzle we’d just completed. We needed a little break, a little peaceful puzzling time. Less stress. The artwork on this puzzle is by Charles Wysocki, who has quickly become one of our favorites. This is a very enjoyable puzzle, like all of the others we’ve done from this artist.

It’s Not All Happy Chickens

Now, as much as the Virginia’s Nest puzzle from Buffalo Games is great to sit back and enjoy, there were a few difficult spots in this puzzle. Many of the buildings were the same colors. There’s plenty of similarly-colored grass around to challenge you a bit. Along with the water. But the buildings were the most challenging, and in a good way.

There are also many great images in the puzzle, from the dog in its house to the people and horses to the fun chickens everywhere!

Buffalo Games – Charles Wysocki – Virginias Nest – 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults Challenging Puzzle Perfect for Game Nights – Finished Size is 26.75 x 19.75

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 20″ high and 27″ wide. The pieces are large and thick and fit really well. The image is crisp and bright and the colors are fantastic. There is a poster included that is clear and easy to work from. This is a great, quality puzzle!

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Andy Warhol Flowers Puzzle from Galison

This Andy Warhol Flowers puzzle from Galison was kind of a departure from our usual puzzles. It’s definitely not a picture of an old grocery store. Nor is it a peaceful 1800s countryside. And with only five different colors, it’s certainly one of the less colorful puzzles. But that in no way means it’s not awesome. In fact, I have to say its easily one of our favorites. Andy Warhol of course was a very famous artist. He did a number of paintings of flowers. This puzzle is of one of his paintings that was first displayed in the 1970s. Each painting was of the same flowers, but using different colors. They’re all quite amazing, as is the one in this puzzle!

An Enjoyable Challenge

Although this Andy Warhol Flowers puzzle from Galison didn’t take us too long to assemble, it was one that we found ourselves stopping to enjoy as we went. I think this puzzle opened our eyes to doing more puzzles containing famous artwork in the very near future.

There are some challenging spots in this puzzle for sure. The same colors are found throughout.

Galison Andy Warhol 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle with Flowers, Andy Warhol Art Foil Jigsaw Puzzle with Vibrant Flowers – Fun Indoor Activity, Multicolor (0735357838)

The Last Piece

This is a 500 piece puzzle. It includes a poster that is the same size as the picture on the box. The assembled puzzle is about 20″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces are thick, fit well and the image quality on the pieces is very good. The colors were great and bright. This puzzle is definitely frameable and is quite worthy of display.

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Cabin Porch Puzzle from Cobble Hill

It was a long, hard road for us. Getting to the end of this Cabin Porch puzzle from Cobble Hill was challenging. We got this puzzle from a neighbor in a trade for some of our completed puzzles. The picture got our attention so we had to get it. Right out of the gate, just sorting the pieces had its moments.

Does This Go There?

Some of the pieces in this Cabin Porch puzzle from Cobble Hill like to fit in more than one place. Right off the bat, I got the border wrong in several places. Things went downhill from there. The chair was tough. The floor was tough. But the dark cabin ceiling was the hardest part. The colors are barely discernable. There was a lot of “try this” going on. But we got there. Well sorta…

Cobblehill Puzzles 1000 pc Cabin Porch

The Dreaded Missing Piece

This puzzle ended up minus one piece. Right in the middle of the dog, too! Doesn’t it figure? We actually had two missing pieces for a while. We looked and we looked. All over the room. Under everything. Then finally… there it was! At the other end of the dining room table. So, just one missing piece in the end.

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 19″ wide and 27″ high (the image is portrait oriented). There was no poster included, but our puzzle was used so perhaps a new one includes a poster. The pieces are fairly big and thick and fit really well. They are cut in many different ways, making it even more challenging.

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Sunday Morning Stroll Puzzle from Buffalo Games

This Sunday Morning Stroll puzzle from Buffalo Games is another great Charles Wysocki work. His paintings translate well into puzzles. The imagery is always fantastic. Almost transporting. All of our Wysocki puzzles prior to this one were more rural American scenes. This one is a more south-of-the-border painting. Oh, but don’t get fooled by the wonderful picture. Difficult challenges await.

Great Pieces. Tough Puzzle.

All is not burros, geese and flowers at the cantina. Tough times lurk in the trees above. Although we found most of this puzzle to be a pretty average challenge, the trees (particularly on the upper left) were a real test for us. Because of the painting quality (and that’s not a negative, just a note) it’s hard to tell which pieces fit in where. It took us a while. That’s ok because oh did we ever enjoy the time and the final result of this Sunday Morning Stroll puzzle from Buffalo Games.

Buffalo Games – Charles Wysocki – Sunday Morning Stroll – 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults -Challenging Puzzle Perfect for Game Nights – Finished Size is 26.75 x 19.75

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 20″ high and 27″ wide. The pieces are thick and fit really well. The painting is fantastic. There is a poster included. This is a great, quality challenging puzzle!

Got questions about puzzling? Are you new to this great hobby? Check out our FAQ and guide to puzzling!

Tiki Beach Sunset Puzzle from Buffalo Games

This Tiki Beach Sunset puzzle from Buffalo Games had us quickly crowning Aimee Stewart as our favorite puzzle artist. The colors, the images and the objects in her puzzles just cannot be beat in our opinion. We are always drawn to her work. And often, we can recognize it from across the aisle in the store. There’s nothing else out there like it. We always have a stack of her puzzles on-hand, some waiting to be started and many already completed.

Enjoy The Challenge

We found a few areas of this Tiki Beach Sunset puzzle from Buffalo Games to be a bit challenging. Mostly because of the colors and shading. The rug on the floor, the ceiling and the fish tank were definitely harder areas than others.

It was also easy to get distracted by the many great objects in this puzzle. A turntable, skulls, model boats… a lizard… You name it. It’s just fun to assemble and more fun to sit back and enjoy when completed.

Buffalo Games – Aimee Stewart – Tiki Beach Sunset – 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

The Last Piece

This puzzle included a brightly colored poster. There are 1000 pieces in this puzzle. The assembled puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces fit very well and the image quality on the pieces is fantastic. The colors were great and the pieces are cut perfectly. This is a quality puzzle that brings hours of enjoyment.

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Mickey and Friends Boardwalk Fun Puzzle from Ceaco

The image on the front of the box for this Mickey and Friends Boardwalk Fun puzzle from Ceaco really caught my eye when we were ‘visiting’ the puzzle section of our local grocery store. The colors. The cartoon characters. Everything about it screamed ‘fun’. I’m a big fan of cartoons (I highly recommend watching the TV show Toon In With Me on MeTV) so I was so looking forward to making this puzzle. But then…..

Great Picture. Not So Great Quality.

As I mentioned I was drawn to the picture on the box when I bought this Mickey and Friends Boardwalk fun puzzle from Ceaco. And that didn’t end when I stepped back to enjoy the final result. Bright colors. Great images. It’s the time in between the purchase and the putting in the final piece that wasn’t as enjoyable. The pieces just weren’t cut right. One had to be modified with a knife to get it to fit together right. If I tried a piece in the wrong spot I had to be super careful removing it or I’d get 5 or more pieces with it. Oh and if you’re like me and like to assemble smaller portions of the puzzle off to the side and then move it to the puzzle, good luck. The pieces don’t fit well enough to make that an easy task!

Ceaco – Disney – Mickey & Friends Boardwalk Fun – 1500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

The Last Piece

This 1500 piece puzzle included a very colorful, nice poster. The assembled puzzle is about 32″ wide and 24″ high. The pieces fit very loosely and are not cut very well at all. If you even touch the puzzle inadvertently the pieces will tend to come apart, at least until the entire puzzle is assembled. The image quality on the pieces themselves is very good.

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The French Walkway Puzzle from Eurographics

Every once-in-a-while we look thru the ‘to-do’ pile of puzzles and decide that it’s time to do a difficult one. The French Walkway puzzle from Eurographics was definitely in the ‘difficult’ category for us. The final image was fantastic. This will be one of our favorite puzzles forever. The memories of the challenging sections are long gone, replaced by time spent enjoying the final result.

So Many Challenges

There were so many parts of The French Walkway puzzle from Eurographics that posed a challenge. The walkway was tough but not too bad since the shading varied enough so you kinda knew where pieces go. The walls and ivy and flowers were all demanding.

My (somewhat crooked) picture does not do this puzzle justice. It was definitely a frame-able puzzle if you’re looking for something nice to hang on the wall.

The French Walkway by Dominic Davison

The Last Piece

The pieces in this puzzle were nice and thick and cut perfectly. They stayed together like they should. The quality of the image was fantastic. There is no poster included with this puzzle, but the box itself is pretty large making it easier to look at the picture. This puzzle contains 1000 pieces and ends up being around 19″ high and 26″ wide.

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Pretty As A Pitcher Puzzle from White Mountain

We both really enjoyed putting together this Pretty As A Pitcher puzzle. Available from White Mountain, it has 1000 pieces. We purchased it at our local grocery store, Meijer. Meijer often has pretty good sales on puzzles. We make it a habit to walk down to the ‘other end’ of the store where the puzzles are any time we are shopping for groceries. It’s rare that we come away empty handed. And often, we come away with a puzzle from White Mountain.

Quality And Fit

As with the other White Mountain puzzles we’ve done, we found the quality of this Pretty As A Pitcher puzzle to be good. The pieces fit well. They were random cut, which is something I prefer. There was just a bit of dust in the box when we opened it and started sorting.

White Mountain Puzzles Pretty As A Pitcher 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Fun And Rewarding

The colors on the pieces were bright and crisp. And although there are several pitchers in the picture that are similar in design and color, it wasn’t difficult to tell the pieces apart. The wood shelves were slightly more challenging but not so much so. We wouldn’t call it a particularly difficult puzzle. But we would definitely call it fun!

The Last Piece

The finished puzzle was around 24″ high and 30″ wide. The box included a color poster, which is always a plus for us since we each like to have a picture of the final puzzle while we are assembling it.

Got questions about puzzling? Are you new to this great hobby? Check out our FAQ and guide to puzzling!

Ceaco – The Puzzle Scoop – A Lifting, Moving, Illuminating, and Magnifying Puzzle Accessory for All Puzzlers