Springbok is a US puzzle company with good quality puzzles. They tend to do more photographic puzzles and collages, but also have a few drawn/painted puzzles. You can see our Springbok brand comparison here. They've just added 16 new puzzles for winter 2016. I show my favorites below but you can see them all here. “The Melody Shop”... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Falcon (a branch of Jumbo, Netherlands), published 2015 Title: “Christmas Pantomime” by Jim Mitchell, Falcon's 2015 limited edition Christmas puzzle, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 8.5/10 Box Quality: (9/10) The box is a nice, sturdy, German style rectangular box. The front has "Limited Edition" and "No 4", which is nice. It also lists the name of the... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Ravensburger (Germany), published 2015 Title: “Santa's Final Preparations” by Roy Trower, Ravenburger's 2015 limited edition Christmas puzzle, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 9/10 Box Quality: (9/10) The box is quite nice. It's the standard rectangular Ravensburger box, thick and sturdy. The back of the box has information about the artist (Roy Tower) and about this image. Click... CONTINUE READING
The Anatolian line of puzzles from Perre has released their new 2016 images. You can see our brand comparison for Anatolian here. They are a Turkish puzzle company with decent quality and very reasonable prices, even here in the US. They have good distribution too. I've only pulled the images I like the best, but... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Jumbo (Netherlands), published 2015 Title: “Santa's Factory” by Jan Van Haasteren Studios, Jumbo, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 9/10 This puzzle comes in a boxed set of two along with "New Year Party". Box Quality: (9/10) You can see the box above. The Jumbo JVH boxes all have a similar blue background, which makes for a nice... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Jumbo (Netherlands), published 2015 Title: “Wild Water Rafting” by Jan Van Haasteren Studios, Jumbo, 1500 pieces OUR RATING: 9.5/10 This puzzle also comes in 3000 pieces, but I did the 1500 piece version. Box Quality: (9/10) You can see the box above. The Jumbo JVH boxes all have a similar blue background, which makes for a... CONTINUE READING
The new Cobble Hill puzzles popped up today. They're not yet on the Cobble Hill website, but they are for sale on Simple Pastimes. You can see them all here. I've pulled out my favorites below. I'm most excited about the new 2000 piece puzzles. It harder to find really great 2000 piecers and these both... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: WH Smith (UK), published 2015 Title: “A Christmas Market Town” by Victor McLindon, WHSmith's 2015 limited edition Christmas puzzle, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 8/10 First, I want to thank Jen, a Jigsaw Junkie reader, for sending me this puzzle from the UK. It's hard to get WHSmith puzzles here in the US, and it was such... CONTINUE READING
Publisher: Waddington's (UK), published 2015 Title: “The Christmas Snowman”, Waddington's 2015 limited edition Christmas puzzle, 1000 pieces OUR RATING: 8.75/10 Box Quality: (9/10) The box is quick thick and sturdy, rectangular in shape. The back has unique information about the puzzle. Along with the goodies inside, this is definitely a box worthy of a 10 ranking. However... CONTINUE READING
