I took a chance and broke my rule to not buy opened thrift store puzzles: luckily this one didn’t have any missing pieces! They all have the same cut: two holes, two knobs, but within that limitation enough variation that it wasn’t too hard to visualize fits. Only a few times did I have a piece in the wrong spot which threw me off for a while. What made it tricky was all the dark hues- I kept confusing pieces of elk fur with the rocks, and dark of the water with the lichens. It was just the right level of challenge.
Final size 26 x 20″. Use the arrows to see photos I took of the assembly- just for fun:
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Would love to see a picture of the finished puzzle, Jeane.
Does it not show up? There’s supposed to be arrows on either side of the image, that you can scroll through all the pictures to the end assembly (I took photos at stages of putting it together). Let me see if I can fix.
Not on my pc, the arrows didn’t work at all on that, but like me it is ancient. But here I am viewing it on my tablet and the arrows work fine. Sorry to alarm you. The finished puzzle is gorgeous!
Hey no problem. I thought I had missed something when adding the pictures!
Took me a second to notice the arrows, but I love being able to click on them at any speed to see the whole puzzle come together. I brought about 85 puzzles to the local Goodwill Store last week, and I’m pretty sure that a couple of them have a missing piece or two. But the store sells them for three or four dollars each at most, and often way less, so I don’t worry to much about buying them there. Haven’t done one in a long time because they take me so long I don’t have an out-of-sight corner to leave them sitting for a few days at a time.
Eighty five! Wow, you had a large collection! I think I only have about 30. The prices are about the same here- I think I bought this one for $2, and the others I picked up recently were around the same. If there’s a piece missing I might be annoyed, or motivated to patch one in if I really like the puzzle and want to keep it, to do again someday. I have a board I use now to do puzzles on- it’s a tad inconvenient but I can move it off the table when needed, and when I’m not puzzling it’s out of the way behind a piece of furniture.