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I have gotten some emails asking me to share tips for assembling puzzles and/or my method. If you're new to puzzling, returning to it after a long time, or just want to see how someone else does it, check out this walk-through. In the end, no method is right or wrong as long as you... CONTINUE READING
Springbok is a US puzzle company with good quality puzzles. They tend to do more photographic puzzles and collages, but also have a few drawn/painted puzzles. You can see our Springbok brand comparison here. They've just added 16 new puzzles for winter 2016. I show my favorites below but you can see them all here. “The Melody Shop”... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Heye (Germany), published 1998 and currently reissued in a rectangular box Title: “Who Did It?”, Artist: Michael Ryba, 2000 pieces OUR RATING: 10/10 I worked this puzzle years ago, but it was time, over the lengthy holidays, to get it out again. This has long been one of my favorite Heye puzzles. I love Ryba's cartoon art... CONTINUE READING
The Ravensburger 2016 catalog is online. I haven't been able to get a high-res enough version to clip the individual puzzle photos, but you can get a good idea of the new puzzles. There's a new Colin Thompson, 2 new Aimee Stewart, 2 new Best of British, a new What If? and other fun... CONTINUE READING
I've been watching for the appearance of the 2015 limited edition Christmas puzzle from Waddington's. It still hasn't appeared there, but a Google search brought this up. Title is "The Christmas Snowman" and it's not for sale yet. .. CONTINUE READING
Buffalo Games has put some excellent new puzzles up on their website. I've been collecting all of their Charles Wysocki cat puzzles, so I was happy to see two new ones. "Remington the Horticulturist" by Charles Wysocki, 750 pieces "Frederick the Literate" by Charles Wysocki, 750 pieces There are also a number of Josephine... CONTINUE READING
Gibsons has just launched a few awesome new puzzles. I've shown them below in the order in which I like/love them. 1. Glenny's Garden Shop by Steve Read. 2. London Landmarks, 1000 pieces 3. Water's Edge by John Francis 4. Land Girls by Derek Roberts 5. Sunshine & Steam by Philip... CONTINUE READING
After Step One and Step Two, we now have a puzzle that has adhesive contact paper applied to the back, and that contact paper is then mounted/glued to a foamcore board. This mounted puzzle looks and feels fairly sturdy, but remember that since the puzzle is only held in place by the adhesive on the contact paper... CONTINUE READING