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Fun jigsaw puzzle, Reader's Paradise
Dec. 28th, 2024 03:57 pmThis jigsaw puzzle aligns with the interests of a lot of folks here. Reader's Paradise by Aimee Stewart from White Mountain Puzzles. It's a painting of a very crowded bookshop, which means every inch of the puzzle is covered by varying colors, textures, and fonts. No large swaths of bland blue sky that have to be matched solely by puzzle piece shape here. The level of detail is amazing for old book covers and posters in various styles, which Aimee Stewart not only created in loving detail, but most of them are painted at an angle!
There are more bonus living beings than I expected in a bookshop as well, given that there are no visible humans.
I did it without referring to the cover, and the hardest part was getting the border pieces in the right order. After that I could collect pieces that had text, or that matched by color, and start figuring out what went where. It was fun to watch different parts of the scene emerge.
Once it was done, I got curious about the piece count, since this was a regular-cut puzzle with even rows and columns. The rectangle is 37 pieces x 27, which multiplies out to 999. Either 1000 pieces is rounded up, or ... yup, there it is, one of the pieces is two pieces linked together to make an even 1000. My eye went right to it, so the anomaly must have been noticeable even though I didn't think about it consciously when I was putting the pieces in place.
I picked it up while walking in the neighborhood a few months ago, where someone had put it outside when they were done with it. I'll pass it along to a friend, or put it outside in turn (when the weather is drier).
There are more bonus living beings than I expected in a bookshop as well, given that there are no visible humans.
I did it without referring to the cover, and the hardest part was getting the border pieces in the right order. After that I could collect pieces that had text, or that matched by color, and start figuring out what went where. It was fun to watch different parts of the scene emerge.
Once it was done, I got curious about the piece count, since this was a regular-cut puzzle with even rows and columns. The rectangle is 37 pieces x 27, which multiplies out to 999. Either 1000 pieces is rounded up, or ... yup, there it is, one of the pieces is two pieces linked together to make an even 1000. My eye went right to it, so the anomaly must have been noticeable even though I didn't think about it consciously when I was putting the pieces in place.
I picked it up while walking in the neighborhood a few months ago, where someone had put it outside when they were done with it. I'll pass it along to a friend, or put it outside in turn (when the weather is drier).
