Day: April 6, 2023

made by Galison ~ photograph by Julie Seabrook ~ 500 pieces

We called this the Rainbow Dice puzzle. My daughter worked it with me- so the sessions went quick, but they weren’t many (and far between). She got bored so quick at each sitting. I found out we have different methods for doing puzzles! She insisted on sorting all the colors before we started-

the border pieces were all white

and then she liked to take a piece, scrutinize the picture guide, and figure out exactly where it went in the puzzle, put it there. I prefer to pick up a piece, look for what else matches it, bother later about figuring out where it goes. And she likes to have pieces of choice to work on for the moment in the empty space still available inside the half-done puzzle, while I prefer to keep them all on the outside until they go with something. We kept crossing hands in the middle, with a tad bit of frustration at each other, but it was fun regardless!

It was done in just four sittings. First one we sorted colors and started on the border. Second sitting we finished the edge and I did the blues. Third sitting was all the pinks, purples and red. Fourth was all the rest, with breaks to pause for a few photos.

I didn’t realize until we finished it, that all these pieces are the same shape- two knobs, two holes. But there is variation within that basic shape, and we were always looking at the colors, style of the dots or design on the dice anyway, so it was easy enough to do. Amused ourselves wondering why some dice have animals or symbols on them (some specific game?) finding the clear ones with other mini dice inside them (so cool, my daughter has a yellow one, just like the one at center) and the ones with blank sides (not sure what those are for, either).

from online swap - Puzzle Exchange Group

at my public library:

The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Harnett
Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman
The Eternal Wonder by Pearl S. Buck
Promise of the Wolves by Dorothy Hearst
Secrets of the Wolves by Dorothy Hearst
The Golden Arrow by Mary Webb
Fluke by Christopher Moore
Foster by Claire Keegan
Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty Birney
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hessian
No Such Thing As Dragons by Philip Reeve

not at my public library:

Iron Cage by Andre Norton
Catarct by Tara K. Harper
Cuckoo’s Egg by E.J. Cherryh
The Mystery of Ireta by Anne McCaffrey
Before Adam by Jack London
Willow and Twig by Jean Little
Daughter of the Red Deer by Joan Wolf
Indian Legends from the North Rockies by Ella Clark
The Fossil Snake by L.M. Boston
Age of the Horse by Susanna Forrest
The Hero of the Herd by John McCormack
40 Acres and No Mule by Janice Holt Giles
Adventures of Holly Hobbie by Richard Dubelman
Dead of the House by Hannah Green
The Street of the Flower Boxes by Peggy Mann

The First Day of Friday by Honor Tracy
The Marble Cake Cat by Marjorie N. Allen
Seasons of Heron Pond Mary Leister
Birds of Prey by Gareth Parry
Dirt the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Logan
More Was Lost by Eleanor Perenyi
You Are the Rain by Rozanne Knudsen
Jamesland by Michelle Huneven
If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous
The Curious Fish by Elsa Beskow
The Day the Fish Went Wild by Elizabeth Hazelton
The Half-Acre Homestead by Lloyd Kahn
Drift by William Mayne
Courage at Indian Deep by Jane Resh Thomas
Pagan the Black by Dorothy Benedict

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis
The Runaway Summer by Nina Bawden
The Prosperous Gardener by James Jankowiak
Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Vanishing Voices by Daniel Nettle
Eat More Dirt by Ellen Sandbeck
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphries

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