NinePeedles

Fun and easy.

Here's a weird one I found at the local thrift store.

(I thought about blurring this one, but the solution is on the back of the box.)

This one was fun. I started by sorting by color, but once I sorted by shape I started moving a bit faster.

I did the whole thing without opening the envelope with the puzzle guide or looking at the back of the box.

Another older (1965) puzzle from the thrift store. This one with six missing pieces. The image was very low def, but the pieces were thick and fit together well.

Biggest puzzle my daughter and I have done together. She's amazing.

Another thrift store puzzle. Sure-Lox are pretty low quality puzzles, but my daughter loved this one.

Another puzzle from the local thrift store. This puzzle was easier than I thought it was going to be.

Picked this one up from the thrift store. Can't find a year on it, but it's definitely old and seen a lot of use.

First puzzle of The New Year. Got this one cheap on Amazon. The quality was ok, but the color palette made some sections fairly tricky.

Trickier than it looks

I saw this post here a while back and was inspired to pick up the Kodak version of the puzzle for myself.

As pointed out in the previous post, the image in the two puzzles appears to be the same, but the Kodak version has a few differences. The main difference is the different crop. The Kodak version has the church centered.

Another difference is the change in the sky. The newer version has a fake Blu sky with clouds applied over the original.

The difference I find the most bizarre, though, is the color tone differences. The colors in the puzzle in the older post are a much more accurate representation of reality, while the colors in the newer version have the contrast turned up so high that the red looks radioactive. Unfortunately my camera doesn't capture them it well, but the leaves look like the heat vision from the movie The Predator. Hilariously, Kodak advertises "richer, truer colors!" on the box.