Grumpy's Jigsaw Puzzle Review

  This was a lot of fun, but took us over took weeks.  Sally did most of it.  It was a lot harder than I anticipated.  The fit was poor, and you could not pick up sections of more than a few pieces without them falling apart.  Regardless we enjoyed the challenge of this one.

  Another Goodwill find and another Cra-Z-Art Kodak puzzle.  This is a very nice image and was fun to put together.  

  This was another Goodwill find a few weeks ago.  I really like this colorful image.  It was the first 1500 piece puzzle we have put together, and we enjoyed building it. There were a number of times I was convinced that a piece was missing, but it always turned up.  Early on I ran out of dark blue sky pieces and I still had two to put in right next to each other in the upper right.  I went through every piece again looking for them and was finally convinced they were  missing.  Then I discovered that I had put them in the wrong place a row below and to the left of where they belonged.  Those were the first of a number of false fits that slowed us up.  We had another at the very end when we had about 8 pieces left; one of the holes required a piece with two outs next to each other and we didn't have one.  So we looked more carefully and found our mistake. The quality of this puzzle was excellent.  The pieces were thick and they hol...

  Brand: Kodak Title:  Variety of Colorful Ice Cream (Amazon sells this puzzle under this name, but it is  not on the box). Series:  N/A Artist:  N/A Number of Pieces: 1000 Size:  27" x 20" Poster included:  No Quality:  Good   - Missing pieces: 1 (this puzzle was not purchased new; I bought it at Goodwill)   - False Fits:  Yes   - Sections stay together when moving:  Generally not   - Bent or delaminated pieces:  None   - Uncut pieces:  None   - Finished puzzle can be picked up by edges:  No, the fit is not good enough,   - Image quality:  Excellent   - Puzzle dust:  Not much What I liked:  A very colorful image and a challenging puzzle to assemble.  There are many similar colors and textures in different places. What I didn't like:  A poster would have been nice, the photo on the box is not quite good enough to be useful without a magnifying glass. Some Ama...