Puzzles, Books and More!: Puzzle #75 - Sunsout - Yellowstone Park

Monday, November 7, 2022

Puzzle #75 - Sunsout - Yellowstone Park - 1000 pieces

What I don't care for as much with puzzles like SunsOut is the wonky shapes of the pieces - it makes it impossible to build a border, because pieces don't fit together like that. So many pieces just sit side by side and then you must find other (interior) pieces to connect them. This goes all throughout the puzzle, but it makes creating a border extremely difficult (impossible). Yes, you just work these puzzles differently to accommodate that, but that is what I don't like. :) Sort of a love/hate thing. I am better with the wonky shaped pieces now than I was when I first started puzzling in January 2022, but I don't like having to constantly try to keep the puzzle together since nothing actually connects (just laying side by side). It is messy. Having said that, I do enjoy these puzzles and this is no exception. I just really struggle with this aspect and it causes me to not do these very often.

Sweet Mav climbed up to take a look at my puzzle and it got really messed up. Partly because pieces move if you just look at them! And partly because it just looked like something he could play around with. He doesn't do this with other puzzles that actually connect. This one looks a mess even when it is 'right'. And of course, I miss having a poster. :)

whoops! :D

So what I really don't like about Sunsout puzzles is no poster and the image on the box is very hard to make out. In this particular puzzle there are words - labels for areas of Yellowstone. Those should be helpful but I cannot make them out on the box at all! Can NOT read them! Can barely read them on the puzzle pieces. Now I realize I am over 50 and need reading glasses but is most of your puzzle population more like me? Not too many 20/20 vision readers! Right? Make the print larger or include a poster!!!! sigh... enjoying the puzzle in other ways - fun image But the wonky shapes (and the way when you lean in all the pieces just move all around) is driving me crazy. I want to love Sunsout more than I do. I think the lesson is never do more than a 500 piece Sunsout. I REALLY like them with 300 and 500 pieces. Must remember this.

Was so ready to be done with this puzzle. The wonky offset pieces throw my brain for a loop. And the colors on pieces didn't match the colors on the puzzle box. However, the image is beautiful and I love thinking about all our Yellowstone trips - each one so special. I am ready for a nice scenic puzzle, though... and not a Sunsout brand. Even to the last 5 pieces I still thought the pieces left wouldn't fit. Crazy!