Grumpy's Jigsaw Puzzle Review

 

  Another nice White Mountain collage puzzle from Goodwill, with no pieces missing.

  Another Goodwill White Mountain collage puzzle.  The box said there was a piece missing but it turned out there were two missing.  Overall a nice puzzle otherwise.

  Another White Mountain from Goodwill.  This one had a piece missing on the edge, but it was written on the box so we knew ahead of time.

  Another fun White Mountain collage.  We found this last Thursday at Goodwill.  There must have been 50 White Mountain puzzles there which had been added since the last time we were there and it was difficult to choose only 3 of them.  That was the most puzzles we have seen at one time at Goodwill.  I suspect that someone donated their entire collection of White Mountain puzzles.  This was finished last night so I am backdating the post (as I have done other times).

  We finished this one pretty fast, and the wife did most of it.  We enjoy these White Mountain collage type puzzles, even though the fit is not as good as most of the other brands we do.

  This was our first puzzle in almost a month, after we took some time have to both have covid.  We picked this up at Goodwill a while ago.  The person who donated it wrote on the bag that there were 2 pieces missing, but we came up with 3 missing.  Possibly someone else lost a piece after that note was written.  We looked pretty carefully and could not find it.  Otherwise we liked working on this one.

  This is the last of Sally's Christmas present puzzles.  We enjoy putting together these White Mountain collage-type puzzles.  Once again she did most of this one.

 Our second puzzle of 2023 and our second White Mountain also.  

  This is probably our last puzzle of this year, and is the 70th one we have completed since the first one at the end of April.  We have a combined total of 49,700 pieces assembled this year.  

 Another White Mountain collage from Goodwill.  We enjoy doing these.  This is our 10th White Mountain puzzle.

  Another Goodwill find.  This one was fun and easy to put together.  The fit was good.  This was our eighth White Mountain puzzle.

  Another enjoyable White Mountain from Goodwill.  This one was more difficult than I anticipated; the wife did most of it.  The fit was very good for a White Mountain, as we were able to assemble sections and move them around without having them fall apart.  This is our 32nd Goodwill puzzle, of which 5 have had missing pieces.

  This was another Goodwill find.  When we got it home we discovered that we already had this puzzle.  However, after comparing the two of them we discovered they are slightly different!  This version was copyrighted in 2015; the other is newer and was copyrighted 2018.  So, we are going to do the other one as well eventually.

  This is another White Mountain Puzzle from Goodwill.  I have seen on line that many people don't like the quality of them, but for me they are fine.  We had a lot of fun with this one and it went together quickly.  We enjoy doing these collage puzzles for some reason.

  This is another Goodwill find.  It was easy and a lot of fun to put together.  We enjoy these larger White Mountain puzzes.

 This was another Goodwill find.  We enjoyed this puzzle a lot.  It was a nice change after the 3000 piece Neuschwantsein Castorland puzzle that took us a month.  

  This puzzle is called " American Diner " and is made by White Mountain .  We picked it up last week at Goodwill.  I did not know that White Mountain made smaller format puzzles until I started working on this one.  The previous White Mountain 1000 piece puzzle we did was 30" x 24", and I thought this one was the same size until I started putting the edge together and discovered it is only 27" x 20".  Actually, it is smaller than that as the finished puzzle is only 19 3/8" on the short side and a bit under 27" on the long side.  If I had been paying more attention I would have realized from the size of the box that something was different.  The product code for this one is 1397T (the standard format is 1397 and appears to be available on the White Mountain website currently).  Next time I will pay more attention as I prefer the bigger size. The artist for this puzzle is Steve Crisp, who was the artist on the White Mountain " Old Candy Store...

  Brand:  White Mountain Title:  Old Candy Store Series:  N/A Artist:  Steve Crisp Number of Pieces:  1000 Size:  30" x 24" Poster included:  No Quality:  Very Good   - Missing pieces:  None   - False Fits:  None   - Sections stay together when moving:  Yes, the fit is very good   - Bent or delaminated pieces:  None were bent; a few show slight beginning to delamination.   - Uncut pieces:  None   - Finished puzzle can be picked up by edges:  Yes; I could probably flip it though I didn't try.   - Image quality:  Good.  The picture is a little soft.   - Puzzle dust:  None What I liked:  We enjoyed working on this one.  I like the cut of the pieces and the good fit.  This is a large puzzle for 1000 pieces at 30 by 24 inches, which made the pieces big and easy to handle. What I didn't like:  Nothing. This was another Goodwill find.  We wi...

Brand:  White Mountain Title:  A World of Money Artist:  Charlie Girard Pieces: 550 Size:  18" x 24" Poster:  No What I liked:  It was not too difficult to figure out which section of the puzzle a piece belonged to with a few exceptions What I didn't like:  Lower quality than the previous puzzles I have done.  Several pieces were starting to delaminate, with the image coming off one of the tabs.  The puzzle has been sitting in a box for a while since I received it as a gift some time ago.