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The following 59 contents matched your search for "british puzzles".Thanks Karen, for emailing me to let me know the new 2016 Gibsons puzzles are showing up on online retailers. They're not on the Gibsons website yet, so this is the first look. Lots of good British puzzles from familiar artists. My favorites are below. "The Country Bus" by Trevor Mitchell -- set of four... CONTINUE READING
Sunsout has new 2015 puzzles up on their website. You can see them all here. I've picked out a few I like. "New England Road Trip", 1000 pieces, artist Mary Thompson I like the combination of the map texture and the various vignettes in this image. Looks fun to assemble. "A Village Summer", 1000 pieces, artist Steve Crisp... CONTINUE READING
I posted a link to the new Ravensburger 2016 catalogue a week or so ago. I still don't have great pictures of the new puzzles, but since I'm working on a 2016 master page, I'm going to post the best pictures I could get from the online pdf catalogue. These are my picks from the... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Ravensburger (Germany) Title: “Wembley Dreams” by Trevor Mitchell, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces, 2015 Review by Jane OUR RATING: 9.25/10 Box Quality: (10/10) The Ravensburger boxes are awesome--thick and sturdy with a very nice design. The sides have a white 'Ravensburger' on blue, the image, the piece count, puzzle name and sometimes author name so you can see the info... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: WH Smith (UK), Released 2013 Title: “Winter Scene" by artist Sarah Adams, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 9/10 I've only recently discovered the WH Smith line of limited edition Christmas puzzles. They've been going on since at least 1998, but since WH Smith is a UK store, and they don't ship overseas, they're somewhat... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Gibsons (UK), no date on box--around 2011? Title: “The Milkman's Rounds”, Artist: Trevor Mitchell, 4x500 pieces OUR RATING: 8/10 I've been wanting to try taking one of these Gibsons 4x500 piece sets and doing all four at the same time. I generally prefer 1000-2000 piece puzzles, so combining them makes a good challenge. All four fit at... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Ravensburger (Germany), published Feb 2015 Title: “Best of British #12: The County Park”, Artist: Geoff Tristram, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 10 I love the "Best of British" series because they're both humorous cartoon puzzles and British/Anglophile puzzles at once. And of course, the artwork by Geoff Tristram (see our interview with Geoff here) is always clean... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Gibsons (UK) Title: “The Country Bus” by Trevor Mitchell, 4 x 500 pieces Review by Jane OUR RATING: 7.75/10 A lovely puzzle set and box is marred by missing pieces and quality control issues. Box Quality: (10/10) The box is shown above and below. As usual with Gibsons, it's a gorgeous box in blue made of... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: House of Puzzles (Scotland) Title: “Roll Out The Barrel” by Ray Cresswell, 1000 pieces Review by Jane OUR RATING: 9.25/10 Box Quality: (9/10) The box is shown above. It's a fairly large rectangular box about the size of the typical Ravensburger or Jumbo box. Each House of Puzzles box has a different base color and this one, as... CONTINUE READING