Tiny puzzle! From the Minipix series. I’ve had travel versions of books for many years on my Kindle, but this is the first time I’ve had a travel puzzle. It’s just so very small! The entire box fits in the palm of my hand, and the pieces are the size of my thumbnail.
It comes in a nice little plastic box, the lid has no hinge so holds in place with the picture sleeve. Which also has info on the back about the wildlife (I got this at a gift shop in a national park). The whole finished puzzle is only 5 x 7″. I repurposed a flat box that once held an ipad, cut down to just half an inch depth, used it as a tray for assembly. I could flip the lid over and put under the tray, one to hold the puzzle in progress and what I was immediately working on, the rest for all the other pieces. It worked beautifully. I did two of these small puzzles on a five-hour flight.
Only problem I had was the pieces fit together loosely, and were so small and lightweight, that when I blew to get rid of some puzzle dust, it disarranged the border I’d just assembled! I even lost one piece onto the floor, without even noticing it. My neighbor retrieved it for me with an amused little smile.
I did attempt to take progress shots, but the lighting and camera angle on the plane were terrible. So while relaxing at my destination the next day, just for fun I did both mini puzzles all over again, in the same assembly order (though my brain wanted to automatically try it differently- what if I put together the pale leaf ones first?) – so I had to consciously choose the same way to show you.
Completed on 7/19/24.
Edit add 8/20/24: the few photos I took on the flight, that actually came out halfway decent. If you flip through the slideshow and pause (hovering the cursor) at the right one, you can see how close I got in duplicating the assembly sequence again for pics.
