Artist: Carly Beck
Maker and Year: Union Square & Co., 2023
Count: 1,000 pieces
Final size: 27 x 20″
Piece Type/Variety: Ribbon cut, average
Piece quality: Average
Skin irritation: Yes
This puzzle is cute, but something about the color scheme reminded me of that Black Box one, which was not necessarily a positive association. I think it was all the pinks and grays in the scattered pieces at start that made feel so, the slightly hues. The quality of the pieces was very like the prior puzzle– lightweight white-backed pieces that feel more like tagboard layers than cardboard, shiny surface, some finger pain. It also had a lot of tedious areas- the pink striping in the umbrella windows, all the grey bricks and blue sky required quite a bit of trial-and-error fitting. I got through this one relatively quickly, though (maybe I’m just getting faster at doing puzzles overall).
