Look what's been announced! Ravensburger's Limited Edition Christmas puzzle for 2018 is here, and it's gorgeous. Here's the blurb from their website: Taking children to visit Santa is a great moment, creating new memories, rekindling old ones and reminding us of the excitement and magic of the festive season. This wonderfully detailed and colourful puzzle... Continue Reading →
It's December 17th. Have you been holidaying yet? I have been knee deep in holiday movies, Christmas card and gift prepping, decorating, and snow shoveling here in Pennsylvania. So it definitely feels like Christmas. I had fun putting together my top picks of the Christmas puzzles available this year. The top ten list (which is... Continue Reading →
July is when we start seeing the Christmas puzzles announced. Very exciting! This year is stacking up to be a great one. RAVENSBURGER 2016 LIMITED EDITION CHRISTMAS PUZZLE: "Santa's Christmas Party" by Roy Trower This is the 20th in the Ravensburger limited edition Christmas series. It's beautiful! Look at all the lovely detail in the... Continue Reading →
Publisher: Gibsons (UK) Title: “It's Christmas” by Marcello Corti, Gibsons, 1000 pieces, limited edition for 2015 Review by Jane OUR RATING: 9/10 Box Quality: (10/10) The Gibsons boxes are of excellent quality--thick and sturdy with a very nice design. You can see the front above. I really like the special gold box they use for the limited edition Christmas... Continue Reading →
Publisher: Falcon (a branch of Jumbo, Netherlands), published 2015 Title: “Christmas Pantomime” by Jim Mitchell, Falcon's 2015 limited edition Christmas puzzle, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 8.5/10 Box Quality: (9/10) The box is a nice, sturdy, German style rectangular box. The front has "Limited Edition" and "No 4", which is nice. It also lists the name of the... Continue Reading →
Publisher: Ravensburger (Germany), published 2015 Title: “Santa's Final Preparations” by Roy Trower, Ravenburger's 2015 limited edition Christmas puzzle, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 9/10 Box Quality: (9/10) The box is quite nice. It's the standard rectangular Ravensburger box, thick and sturdy. The back of the box has information about the artist (Roy Tower) and about this image. Click... Continue Reading →
Publisher: Waddington's (UK), 2014, 1000 pieces Title: “Santa's Workshop”, Limited Edition Christmas puzzle 2014, Artist: uncredited OUR RATING: 7/10 I love the annual limited edition Christmas puzzles, and Waddington's is the grandaddy of them all. (See our list of all of these puzzles here.) The puzzles are now produced by Winning Moves (a game company) and are manufactured... Continue Reading →
Publisher: Ravensburger (Germany), 1998 Title: “Twelve Days of Christmas” limited edition Christmas puzzle No 2, by artist Carol Lawson 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 10/10 This is one of my favorites in the limited edition Christmas series by Ravensburger and I was thrilled to find a good copy of it on ebay. Box Quality: The box is wonderful, with... Continue Reading →
Publisher: Springbok (US), Released 2014 Title: “Ornamental Wonderland” by artist Tammy Haddix 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 8/10 This is a brand new puzzle by Springbok, released for Christmas 2014. It's nice to see that the latest quality of Springbok is really quite high. Box Quality: Let's start with the box. It's a very sturdy box, both... Continue Reading →
Publisher: Gibson (UK), Released 2014 Title: “Christmas Market” by artist Marcello Corti, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 9/10 Gibson ranks quite highly on our puzzle brand comparison. It's a UK brand with lovely thick boxes, sturdy pieces with a waxy finish, and a nice selection of images. Every year they do a limited edition Christmas puzzle and... Continue Reading →
I've added a page for the WHSmith series of limited edition Christmas puzzles. They've been releasing these since 1998. Check out our new reference page here.
Publisher: Waddingtons (UK), Released 1994 Title: "Twelve Days of Christmas" by artist Anne Graham Johnstone, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 10/10 This is the very first Waddingtons limited edition Christmas puzzle published in 1994. The back of the box says the image was commissioned by Waddingtons specifically for this puzzle from illustrator Anne Graham Johnstone. The image contains all the... Continue Reading →
