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Yum Yum Puzzle from Ceaco

We have a few favorite antique malls where we are almost guaranteed to find great used puzzles. They’re not technically antiques, as we tend to buy newer puzzles. But still, we can usually find good quality used puzzles at a good price. Like this Yum Yum Puzzle from Ceaco. It’s smaller than we usually buy, with only 300 pieces, butwe liked the artwork and the price. So it went home with us (along with a stack of others). We’re glad it did too, because this was a very enjoyable puzzle. It didn’t take long to complete, but it was a fun journey and that’s the whole point!

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Thanks. Now I’m Hungry.

The thing about assembling food-related puzzles is that we get hungry. It never fails. Maybe we should stop buying them. But we can’t. Everything in this Yum Yum puzzle from Ceaco looks tasty. Tasty yummy good. Yum Yum in fact!

This puzzle did have a few sections that slowed us down for a bit. The fries for example. And the popcorn. And the burgers too. But not for long. This isn’t an overly-challenging puzzle, but it’s not a total cakewalk (oh, there’s that food thing again!) either.

The Last Piece

This 300 piece puzzle included a nice, large poster. The assembled puzzle is about 24″ wide and 18″ high. The pieces (very large!) fit very well and the colors were nice. The pieces went and fit where they should, so there weren’t any ‘false fits’. The images are fun and, well, yummy!

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Devilstone Harbor Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We’re pretty money-conscious in our house. We believe that puzzling is a great hobby for those looking to get the most out of their entertainment dollar. What else can you spend hours and hours on for (usually) less than $20? All in the comfort of your own home. In your jammies no less (if desired). With your favorite music on. However you want to do it, it’s a great pastime.

This Devilstone Harbor Puzzle from Buffalo Games gave us more than our money’s worth. It took us a while to complete. The final result was fantastic to sit back and enjoy. It’s puzzles like this that keep us puzzling pretty much every day of the week!

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Classic Charles Wysocki

We are always attracted to puzzles of the works from Charles Wysocki. This Devilstone Harbor Puzzle from Buffalo Games is typical of the art he did that we like to do as puzzles. Scenes of times gone by. Rural scenes, usually. Or small towns and farms. Rolling hills and lots of trees. And often, whimsical characters and stores. These are fun puzzles for us, no matter how complicated some may be. Or easy. Or small. Or large. Doesn’t matter, we love them all!

The Last Piece

This 2000 piece puzzle included a nice, large poster. The assembled puzzle is about 39″ wide and 27″ high. It just fit the puzzle board we were using. The pieces fit very well and the image quality on the pieces is very good. We did have a few ‘false fits’ along the way but they weren’t frustrating at all. The colors were great and bright. The artwork is fun and whimsical.

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Camping Adventure Puzzle from Dowdle

One thing we can always count on from a Dowdle puzzle is a challenge for us. The colors throughout are similar, making it a bit more difficult to know where a piece goes. That’s ok. We’re not in a hurry. And we certainly always enjoy the final result. Although all of the Dowdle works are similar in style, the locations are always different. This Camping Adventure puzzle was full of whimsical items and people, and was another true joy to assemble!

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Go Small. Or Big.

We usually do 1000-piece Dowdle puzzles. Or any puzzle for that matter. But we picked up this 300-piece Camping Adventure puzzle used. I wasn’t going to pass it up no matter how many pieces it had. I will say, a 300-piece Dowdle is quite a bit easier than a 1000! Easier. But not easy! This was still a great, enjoyable challenge! Now, I must go get more Dowdle puzzles!

The Last Piece

This 300 piece puzzle included a nice poster. The assembled puzzle is about 21″ high and 15″ high. The pieces fit very well and the colors were nice. We had very few ‘false fit’ pieces. Everything went and fit where it should. The images are fun. This was a tough puzzle in places, making it well worth the price!

Oh, and it was full of fun things!

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Pete’s Gambling Hall Puzzle from Buffalo Games

After completing a few smaller piece-count puzzles lately, I can see why people like them. We usually do 1000 piece puzzles. I’ve found that the 300s are just as fun, have just as great images and provide just as much satisfaction when that last piece goes into place. This Pete’s Gambling Hall puzzle from Buffalo Games was a lot of fun. There’s a lot going on in it. Just because it’s smaller doesn’t mean it’s not great! And hey, it’s a Charles Wysocki work, and he’s definitely one of our favorites!

Old Times Good Times

We found this Pete’s Gambling Hall puzzle from Buffalo Games for sale in one of the antique malls we visit regularly. You never know what you might find. Sometimes nothing. Sometimes pricey. But sometimes, we hit the jackpot and we end up walking out of the store with a big stack of rightly-priced puzzles. Usually 1000-piece puzzles, but sometimes 300s now too. This was an older puzzle, but the quality was still great, from the cut of the pieces to the colors in the image.

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The Last Piece

This puzzle did not include a poster. It didn’t need one, really. There were 300 pieces in this puzzle. The pieces were thick, and fit well. They were cut randomly, into all sorts of shapes and sizes. This puzzle was a nice challenge and enjoyable to look at. It was around 15″ high and 21″ wide when completed.

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Colorful Tea Cups Puzzle from EuroGraphics

Pretty pictures. Isn’t that why most of us pick certain puzzles? Nice colors. Or Nice scenes. Or both. My wife collects vintage plates and cups and whatnot so this Colorful Tea Cups puzzle from EuroGraphics quickly found its way into our shopping cart at an antique mall in Ohio. The price was right, too. It had to come home with us. Little did we know at the time the challenges that awaited. We should’ve known. We should’ve taken more than 5 seconds to look and say “oh, that’s pretty”. This was not an easy puzzle. But it didn’t have to be!

Colorful Tea Cups

1000-Piece puzzle
Box size: 10″ x 14″ x 2.37″

Frame-Worthy

The details in this puzzle were great. The colors fantastic. And the challenges many. The hardest areas were the white drawers, actually. This Colorful Tea Cups Puzzle from EuroGraphics took us a while to complete. We definitely got our money’s worth, both time-wise and enjoyment-wise. This is really a frame-worthy puzzle at least in our home where dish collecting is a thing!

The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle did not include a poster. We did buy it used but really, I don’t think a poster would’ve been necessary even if it did come with one when new. The colors are bright and wonderful. We did get a few false-fits, but not many. The assembled puzzle is about 26″ wide and 19″ high. This is a challenging puzzle, but a very enjoyable one too.

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Tea and Cookies Puzzle from Buffalo Games

We’ve enjoyed every puzzle we’ve completed. Well, there was that one we gave up on, but we’ll get back to it some day…. Anyway. If I had to make a ‘Top 10’ list of our favorites, this Tea and Cookies puzzle from Buffalo Games would definitely be on it. And near the top. This puzzle was a true joy to work on, and an even more of a joy to look at when done. Everything about it was fun. The artist, Aimee Stewart, has long been a favorite of ours. We love Ms. Stewart’s use of colors and her often retro-themed puzzles. We consider this one to be one of her best.

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Easy Like Sunday Morning

I probably shouldn’t say that this Tea and Cookies puzzle from Buffalo Games was ‘easy’. One person’s ‘easy’ might be another persons ‘hard’. But we found that the colors between the wonderful (yummy!) objects were different enough that determining where pieces should go wasn’t too challenging. That’s not to say we finished in 15 minutes. No, we still got hours of joy putting it together. If you like Aimee Stewart’s works, you’ll love this one!

The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle included a poster. The assembled puzzle is about 27″ wide and 20″ high. The pieces fit very well and the colors were absolutely fantastic. We had very few ‘false fit’ pieces. Everything went and fit where it should. The images are fun and, well, yummy!

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Puzzler’s Retreat Puzzle from MasterPieces

It’s happened to us often. Maybe to you, too. You’re perusing the puzzles at a store. Seeing what’s new or what might catch your eye. Then a puzzle jumps out at you and you think “oh wow, what a pretty picture”. So you buy it, take it home, and jump in with both feet. Or hands. Minutes turn into hours. Hours turn into days… and before you know it, that pretty puzzle has taken a lot longer than you expected! That’s not a bad thing. You have to power through it. Because in the end you’ll be rewarded with that pretty picture that sold you on the puzzle to begin with. Like this Puzzler’s Retreat Puzzle from MasterPieces.

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Those Windows

Oddly, much of this Puzzler’s Retreat Puzzle from MasterPieces was pretty easy. Despite the many, many colors and objects. But then along came the windows. Or more accurately, the frames around the windows. For some reason those really gave us a fit. We ended up doing the glass portions first. That made the frames a bit easier to do.

The Last Piece

This puzzle did not include a poster. It would’ve helped if it had! The image on the front of the box was obscured in the upper right corner so it is difficult to know what that area was supposed to look like. There are 1500 pieces in this puzzle. The pieces were thick and fit very well. This puzzle was a great challenge that took us hours to complete. The colors were fantastic and the final result was great!

This puzzle includes a small easel for placing the box cover. This makes it easy to prop up alongside your work area.

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The Naturalist’s Collection Puzzle from Buffalo Games

This is a total ‘wow’ puzzle for us. We’ve done a number of puzzles from Aimee Stewart, and they’re all good, but this one was beyond that. This one really amazed us. The Naturalist’s Collection Puzzle from Buffalo Games is easily one of the most enjoyable puzzles we’ve done. There’s so much color. So many things, everywhere, all over. There’s not one boring moment assembling this puzzle. It’s fantastic!

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An Easy Challenge

We do love a good challenging puzzle. And at first, The Naturalist’s Collection Puzzle from Buffalo Games seemed very, very difficult. It’s dark in places. There are so many objects. Like shells. And claws. And nests. My goodness, they’re everywhere! But in reality, this puzzle was easier than it looked. The use of colors actually made it easier to determine where pieces went. An easy example is the wooden case. It’s not the same color throughout. That helped a lot!

In the end, this was a true joy to do and a real Aimee Stewart work of art!

I couldn’t find this puzzle available online for sale new. You can certainly look around and hopefully find one used. It’s well worth the hunt! Puzzle designs come and go, so you can always check with Buffalo Games to see if it’s back in production.

The Last Piece

This puzzle included a poster. There are 1000 pieces in this puzzle. The assembled puzzle is about 20″ high and 27″ wide. The pieces fit very well and the image quality on the pieces is fantastic. The colors were great. There are a few darker sections of the puzzle that were a bit challenging. This is a great puzzle that will bring hours of fun.

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Kraft Mac & Cheese Puzzle from RoseArt

We usually head towards the 1000-piece puzzles at the store. But something stopped me when I saw the Kraft Mac & Cheese puzzle from RoseArt. Maybe it’s because we were hungry (we were). Maybe it was the bright colors (they are bright!). No matter what the reason, we had to have this 300-piece puzzle. We got it at Five Below, so the price was right ($3!). So it came home with us!

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Big Pieces, Big Colors, Big Fun

This Kraft Mac & Cheese Puzzle from RoseArt was quite fun to complete. Well, almost complete. The pieces are really big. The colors are amazing. In no time we were enjoying the mac-and-cheese wonderfulness. Well, almost. This bought-new puzzle was missing a piece. You can see it in the upper right. Or not see it. Maybe someone took a bite out of the puzzle!

I contacted the manufacturer (they have a website on the box). Very soon after they emailed me a few quick questions which I answered and sent back. In a matter of days we got a new puzzle! I wasn’t expecting that! This puzzle is apparently no longer made, so they couldn’t send the same one. Instead we got another brand new puzzle! Now, THAT’S customer service!

The Last Piece

This puzzle contains 300 pieces. The final puzzle is about 24″ wide and 17″ high. The pieces are large, cut into fun shapes, and fit well together. The image is colorful and detailed. Our bought-new puzzle was missing a piece but the manufacturer quickly sent us a replacement puzzle, more than making up for it!

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Bizarre Bookshop 2 Puzzle from Ravensburger

Whew! Boy oh boy did this Bizarre Bookshop 2 Puzzle from Ravensburger ever give us a challenge! From the second we opened the box until the moment the last piece went in (many days later), this puzzle made us work for every piece. We more than got our money’s worth from this one as we spent many an enjoyable (and challenging) hour working on it!

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Many An Interesting Character…

There are so many fun and interesting things in this Bizarre Bookshop 2 Puzzle from Ravensburger. Below is just a (very) small sampling. This is one of those puzzles that you must spend a lot of time on when you are done, finding things that you missed while assembling it. We didn’t notice these as we went, we were too busy just hoping we’d find a place to put a piece. Our marveling at the details didn’t come until later.

The Last Piece

This 1000 piece puzzle did include a poster. A small poster. Even smaller than the image on the box, actually. Oddly, the box is huge. Much bigger than the size needed to hold the puzzle. We could’ve gone for a bigger poster. We made extensive use of our magnifying glass when we did 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 very good. The colors were great and bright. The artwork is fun and whimsical.

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