Floral Fiesta Puzzle from Springbok

The Floral Fiesta puzzle from Springbok was one of the brightest, most colorful puzzles we’ve done. That’s what drew us to it in the first place. Everything in it pops right off the puzzle. We sort our puzzles (usually, unless they’re just too hard to sort!) and this one had its obvious sorting areas. That’s not to say this was an easy puzzle. Oh no, my fellow puzzlers, it was not.

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Sometimes, Not Just The Picture Is The Challenge

The most challenging part of this Floral Fiesta puzzle from Springbok was the pieces themselves. First, the material. These pieces are thick. Big time thick. They are almost like thick cardboard boxes. Because of that, some were a little curved or bent. Not bad, just sometimes noticeably so. To make matters more challenging, the pieces are cut in crazy ways. Or I should say, they are cut very ‘Springbok-like’. Crazy shapes and sizes. The kind that make finding edges a tough thing to do in some cases.

Floral Fiesta Puzzle from Springbok

In the end, this was one of our favorite puzzles. The challenges and the colors gave us a lot of fun and enjoyment.

Floral Fiesta Puzzle from Springbok

The Last Piece

This puzzle did not include a poster. The box is large and you can see the image quite well on it, so you really don’t need a poster. There are 1000 very colorful pieces in this puzzle. The assembled puzzle is about 24″ high and 30″ wide. The pieces fit tightly and it’s fairly hard (but not impossible) to put a piece into the wrong place without it being obvious. Some pieces that look like edges are in fact, not. The pieces are cut in different shapes, are very thick and fit very tightly. This was a great puzzle.

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Tranquility Puzzle from Spin Master

Calm is an app for your phone that plays soundscapes or music to help you sleep, focus and relax. Kinda like puzzling. So it makes sense that the makers of Calm and Spin Master teamed up to do a number of puzzles that pair with Calm. The images on the puzzle are calming too, even if you don’t have Calm! We found this Tranquility Puzzle for sale used at one of our favorite antique malls. I’ve scored big and often at it. I’d tell you the name but I don’t want to lose on my favorite sources for puzzles. Sorry!

Big Pieces. Big Fun.

We don’t do many 300 piece puzzles. We tend to have mostly 1000 piece ones going. We puzzle so often that I’m afraid if we did only 300 (or even 500) piece ones we’d have to add a storage unit to the house just to keep up with them. When we do a smaller puzzle it always amazes me how big the pieces are. But that doesn’t always mean easier. The darker areas of this puzzle were still quite the challenge. This Tranquility Puzzle from Spin Master was a fun puzzle. And yes, it was relaxing too!

The Last Piece

This 300 piece puzzle was brightly colored and peaceful! The assembled puzzle is about 24″ wide and 18″ high. The pieces fit very well. It was a fairly easy puzzle to complete, though the darker areas were a bit more challenging. The pieces are nice and large, and thick. They’re easy to handle to boot!

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Mountain Retreat Puzzle from Buffalo Games

This Mountain Retreat Puzzle from Buffalo Games is a ‘Night and Day’ puzzle. I didn’t even really notice that when we bought it, but it says it right on the box! Yep. The puzzle goes from night (right) to day (left). Or ‘Day and Night’ if you want to look at it the other way. Anyway, it’s kinda different. A lot of this puzzle is kinda different actually. This was a fun what I call ‘clip-art’ puzzle. Things everywhere. But they made sense. Some ‘clip-art’ puzzles look like someone just dragged-and-dropped stuff randomly onto a screen. Not this one. It was fun. And colorful.

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Sit Back. Relax. And Enjoy.

We had just finished a large, really hard puzzle. Not that that’s a bad thing. But we needed a little something to get us over it… Something a little easier. But not so easy that we weren’t challenged at least a bit. This Mountain Retreat puzzle from Buffalo Games was perfect for that. Lots of colors. Lots of fun. Challenging but not frustratingly so!

The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle included a poster. The trees were the hardest part to complete, we think. The assembled puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces fit kinda tightly. The color and image quality are fantastic.

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Alpine Serenity Puzzle from Buffalo Games

Some puzzles are definitely more challenging than others. That’s part of the thrill. If they were all easy it’d get boring. And if they were all difficult it’d get frustrating. Well, we had just finished an easy puzzle so it was time for a more difficult one. This Alpine Serenity Puzzle from Buffalo Games definitely had its difficult spots. But the final image was very worth the time. And as an added reward, we got to search for the 10 objects hidden within the puzzle!

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Frameable Results

So far we haven’t framed a puzzle that we’ve completed. But, we came close after making this Alpine Serenity puzzle from Buffalo Games. The colors and pictures are pleasant. You can almost hear the stream flow by. And the scream of the eagle in the sky. It was a relaxing image after a challenging puzzling time. There are plenty of tough spots as you go for sure!

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces and includes a poster. The final puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces fit well together. The image is colorful and detailed. There are 10 objects hidden in the image for you to locate after you’re done (or find them as you go!). In the end this is a great puzzle to sit back and enjoy!

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Yankee Wink Hollow Puzzle from Buffalo Games

I have to warn you. I’m going to say ‘wonderful’ a lot in this post. I’m sorry, I know I should look for other adjectives to describe the Yankee Wink Hollow puzzle from Buffalo Games. But ‘wonderful’ just suits it perfectly. The colors are wonderful. The imagery is wonderful. And yes, the pieces fit wonderfully! I promise I’m done with how ‘wonderful’ this is! This is Charles Wysocki at his best.

It’s Not All Wonderful

Ok, there were some difficult spots in the Yankee Wink Hollow puzzle from Buffalo Games. Challenges. Tests. There were several pieces that fit in several places with little hint that they were wrong. That’s ok. It doesn’t all have to be easy. That’s part of the journey.

The trees were the most difficult part in all. The many objects were a joy. This is a piece of art. When done, we both stood back and enjoyed it for a good long time.

It’s just a wonderful puzzle and one of our favorites of all time.

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The Last Piece

This puzzle includes a poster. There are 1000 pieces in this puzzle. The assembled puzzle is about 30″ wide and 24″ high. The pieces fit very well and the image quality on the pieces is fantastic. The colors were great and the pieces are thick and cut perfectly. This is a quality puzzle that brings hours of enjoyment.

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Moonlight and Roses Puzzle from Buffalo Games

“Whew”. We both said it at the same time as the last piece went in. This Moonlight and Roses puzzle from Buffalo Games challenged us both. From start to finish. The imagery was fantastic. The journey, though, was long. This was an older puzzle we acquired used from an antique mall for $4. We got more than our money’s worth that’s for sure!

Where Did It Go?

Our Moonlight and Roses Puzzle from Buffalo Games was missing a piece. It was a used puzzle. I can never get over how when a puzzle is missing a piece, it’s only one. Not two. Not five. But one. But it’s worse. We got down to two ‘holes’ in our puzzle. We had only one piece. And it didn’t fit into either place. We looked and looked and could not find the issue.

The solution? Flip the puzzle over. It wasn’t easy. And it was obvious which piece (it was just one!) we had wrong. Sometimes you just have to do it. Usually we just have to flip a section, but this time we had to flip the entire thing. So in the end, we had just one missing piece. We still enjoyed the puzzle.

Moonlight and Roses Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We love puzzles of Charles Wysocki’s works. This one is a little different for us. The ones we’ve done in the past were rural scenes, of farms and towns, in an Americana style art. This was not like those, but a lot of fun!

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The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 1000 pieces. The final puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. There is a poster included. The pieces fit fairly well. The image is very well-done and fun to look at. We did buy the puzzle used and there was some wear (and a missing piece).

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Farm Cottage Puzzle from Cardinal

We usually find ourselves making 1000 piece (or more puzzles). But that doesn’t mean we don’t love smaller puzzles just as much! We found this Farm Cottage Puzzle from Cardinal (now Spin Master) in my parent’s storage room. It’d been there for a bit. Who doesn’t have puzzles stored away somewhere? So we grabbed it and brought it home to enjoy ourselves.

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Pretty Scene. Pretty Challenging.

This Farm Cottage Puzzle from Cardinal was sorta deceiving. Usually a 500-piece puzzle doesn’t take us that long to finish. This one took a bit longer. It had its challenging spots. That’s good. I’d say we got our money’s worth but we got it for free!

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 500 pieces. The final puzzle is about 24″ wide and 18″ high. There was no poster included but we did it get used, so perhaps the original came with one. The pieces are fit fairly well. The image is well-done and fun to look at.

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Colorful Umbrellas in Bali Puzzle from Big Ben

This Colorful Umbrellas in Bali puzzle from Big Ben (once part of Milton Bradley and now Hasbro) was very tough for us to finish. It took us about as long as any 1000 piece puzzle has ever taken. It’s no longer made as far as I can tell but you can find it on eBay. At several points throughout the process I said “Good, no one else will have to go through this!”. But we made it. And we enjoyed the final result more, I think, if nothing else because of the challenging times we had.

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Nice ‘Ellas

Yes, it was the bright colors that drew us to this Colorful Umbrellas in Bali puzzle from Big Ben. We found it at a garage sale. I’m pretty sure it had never been assembled before. I can see why, too. This puzzle could easily scare off even the most-seasoned puzzle veteran. Once you get past the umbrellas and what little identifiable beach sand there is, it’s tough. Way tough.

The Last Piece

This is a 1000 piece puzzle. It did not include a poster. The picture on the box did not show the entire puzzle. The assembled puzzle is about 20″ wide and 27″ high, although you can assemble it either in portrait or landscape orientation. The pieces are thick, fit well. The image quality on the pieces is not so good. This puzzle was difficult to assemble but still fun to sit back and enjoy.

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Treasures Puzzle from We Care

We picked up this Treasures Puzzle from We Care in an antique mall in Kokomo, Indiana. It’s an older puzzle but it had never been opened. The artwork was appealing. From the box we could tell it was originally sold to support a local charity, We Care. The artwork was done by Mike Sears, a prolific artist that started in Kokomo and later ended up in Silver Dollar City. He has done a number of charity pieces, like this one. His story is fascinating and worth the read.

A Challenging Joy

This Treasures Puzzle from We Care was definitely not without its challenges. To begin with, the pieces are thick and fit pretty tightly. That’s not a bad thing, but when you get one wrong, you’re going to work for it. It takes a bit of finagling to get that piece back out. The trees and parts of the grassy areas were definitely more difficult. But, boy, was it great to put in that last piece and enjoy the final result!

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One Kind of Piece

Once you’re past the edges, there’s actually only one shape of piece in this puzzle from LEGO. Each piece has two tabs on the ends, and two sockets (blanks or holes, whatever you like to call them!) in the middle. They are either placed vertically or horizontally. But don’t think that makes it easier. Get that thought out of your head right now. Some of the colors are very similar. It’s a challenge!

The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle did not include a poster, however this puzzle is quite old so it’s not surprising. The assembled puzzle is about 25″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces are thick. And they’re even more stubborn to take apart if you have a piece wrong.

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Birch Point Cove Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We had just completed a really, really challenging puzzle. It took us days and days to complete. That’s ok, we’re not in a hurry. But boy did we need a little bit of an ‘easy break’. So we grabbed this Birch Point Cove Puzzle from Buffalo Games off of our to-do pile and got to it.

This is another of Charles Wysocki’s great works. We always find puzzles of his art to be rather relaxing. Challenging in spots too, but they are always an enjoyable experience.

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Such A Pleasant Scene

You can almost hear the birds in the tree while you’re working on this puzzle. As with all of Wysocki’s work (or at least the puzzles of his art that we’ve done so far), the scene is very soothing. The Birch Point Cove puzzle from Buffalo Games was a great experience. We sure enjoyed it.

The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle included a poster. The assembled puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces fit fairly well and the colors were great. The original artwork is a painting, so the imagery on the pieces isn’t as crisp as you’d find on a puzzle drawn on a computer.

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