My partner and I both love vintage posters with bold colors and fun typography, and when I stumbled across this vintage travel poster puzzle from Cavallini & Co., I knew it was the perfect gift. Travel Vintage Puzzle (1,000 pieces about $20 at the time of publication) Maps of the our world and others: Crocodile Creek puzzlesĬavallini & Co. If-like me-you’re more of a jigsaw junior than a power puzzler, the following puzzles provide a balanced challenge, making them great options to begin piecing together your collection. These might be welcome challenges for seasoned puzzlers, but for beginners it can be maddening. Intricate patterns can overwhelm your eyes (especially during extended puzzling sessions), samey shapes can be hard to place, and soft, hazy watercolors increase difficulty, since they lend few clues as to which piece goes where. My colleagues also pointed out that difficulty is way less about piece count than what’s on the pieces. Senior staff writer Kimber Streams, meanwhile, generally gravitates to images they find aesthetically pleasing, leaning more on personal taste to figure out which puzzles might be worth tackling. Preferences vary, but senior staff writer and avid puzzler Tim Heffernan recommends designs with bold blocks of color that contain moderate levels of detail. Still, not every picture makes a great puzzle. Puzzles can be a focal point for a group to gather and share some time together, or they can be a soothing balm for a solo mind, encouraging the solver to transform disjointed chaos into pleasant order. When puzzlers focus their attention on a new puzzle, they can see new details and develop a deeper appreciation of the artwork they’re reconstructing. Conversations with puzzle-loving co-workers have only deepened this appreciation, so I’ve collected a number of their recommendations here. But over the past few years, when I didn’t have as many options to socialize with friends and found myself tired of staring at a screen, I became more open to the quiet, intense focus that solving a puzzle can bring. When I was younger I didn’t really understand this, preferring to spend my time with more interactive or social games and activities. Puzzles can be a relaxing and meditative way to spend an afternoon-especially a drizzly or snowy one.
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