What If #3 Home Makeover

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What If #3 Home Makeover by Geoff Tristam – Ravensburger – 1000 pieces

Another fun puzzle where I won’t show the entire image. You have to puzzle it out for yourself!

This What If shows what actually happens when the family tries to do all the home improvements themselves. Not good. You can tell by the cat’s face that he certainly isn’t impressed! They’re hoping for a great new room, but what if they get something else altogether? 😉

This one seemed more difficult for me than the other What If puzzles I’ve worked, or it may just be that my brain hasn’t been working properly lately. That’s a distinct possibility! Whatever the reason, it took a little extra brain power from me but it was still a super fun assembly. I enjoy the puzzles where I don’t have a picture – it adds an extra challenge and I feel quite proud when I’m done.

Usual great Ravensburger quality, although I think this puzzle may have been near the end of the run, because the fit was looser than normal for a Ravensburger and the piece shapes stand out in the final image more. But I’ve seen that several times with many different companies, it happens. It doesn’t diminish my enjoyment of the assembly much, and they still have great image reproduction, excellent artwork with clean lines, thick pieces – you know, the usual amazing Ravensburger puzzle. (I’m a fan, can you tell?)

I loved this puzzle and highly recommend it, even if it did require extra use of the brain cells. It’s always fun to figure out What If something else happened?!

What If? – Garden Open Day

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What If? – Garden Open Day – Ravensburger – 1000 pieces

It’s been a while since I’ve done a What If puzzle, almost forgot how much fun they are! Also, I’m only showing a tiny portion of the puzzle, because I don’t want to give away the “answer”.

In this puzzle, Hyacinth has worked all year with the help of her husband to get her garden ready for the “open gardens” weekend, what will happen if unexpected visitors drop in?

I haven’t done a regular Ravensburger in a while, I’ve just been working on the giant Ravensburger puzzle. It reminded me how awesome this puzzle company is, and why they’re my favorite. The pieces are wonderfully thick, they fit together so well that you always know if you’ve got the right piece, the image reproduction is gorgeous and there are a variety of piece shapes so it isn’t boring. Ravensburger Rocks!!

Cartoon puzzles are my favorite and I adore the artwork of Geoff Tristam. I can’t really say why, it’s not childish cartoony at all and just something about his artwork makes me happy. So add together Geoff Tristam cartoon puzzle with Ravensburger and I am a happy happy puzzler! 🙂

What If #1 The Lost Lottery Ticket

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What If #1 The Lost Lottery Ticket by Geoff Tristam – Ravensburger – 1000 pieces

Here’s another puzzle I won’t show the whole picture of. Like the Wasgij, the image on the box isn’t what you puzzle, you have to figure out what would happen if…..

For this one, the cover of the box shows what our hero wants to happen when he buys a lottery ticket. The puzzle itself shows what if his ticket was the winner, but he lost it. I absolutely love the art of Geoff Tristam. It’s a fun cartoon puzzle, which I enjoy doing very much. It’s from Ravensburger, so we know the quality is amazing.

After doing the Wasgij, I decided I wanted to try the Ravensburger equivalent – What If. Absolutely loved it. Love that they are cartoon puzzles, love the artist, love the challenge of not having an image to work from, always love the Ravensburger quality – just LOVE it!

Uh, I now own all 16 What If puzzles. I clearly have an addictive personality!!! Perhaps I should stay off the internet because it always leads to looking for more puzzles to try, buy, and stock up on. 😮