This is my favorite puzzle of the year. It was a gift from my sister, a beautiful delight. I’ve never had a shaped puzzle before, nor one that’s wooden and has shaped pieces! It was so much fun to put together, and the tactile experience so different from a regular cardboard puzzle. Felt luxurious, in a way. It’s just over 200 pieces, but that doesn’t mean it was easy! I was so thrilled with it I took lots of photos during the process:
Lots of random and odd shapes among the normal ones.
Fun shaped pieces: there were leaves, trees, two owls, four foxes in various poses, a rabbit, butterfly,
and some that were just oddly triangular. One that looked like a dagger.
The shaped pieces had very thin lines cut out of them, detailing the reverse side:
Hedgehog fit into the center of the tail tip. And that’s where I started.
Assembly – use arrows to navigate as usual, and more pics below!
I just loved the visual texture as well- the fox’s face looks like it’s made of mosaic, which becomes fur texture, which merges into leaves in some areas, and looks like feathers in others.
In the body area there’s a little forest scene- with a creek, three foxes, and an owl in the tree.
There’s also a bunch of tiny houses and an owl flying over a field. Look closely you can see the shaped owl piece just below the pictured owl’s wing.
I liked this puzzle so much I slid it onto another surface, to continue admiring it for days.
Then I took it apart and reassembled a second time, just for the fun of it! Surprised it wasn’t that much easier- I had one piece under the ear in the wrong spot, which made everything not fit for a while. Took me some time to find out why.
You can bet this is one I’ll do over many times, and thoroughly enjoy it each one.