You may remember an earlier Puzzled post where I was a missing a piece from a world map puzzle. I didn’t think it would ever turn up again, but lo and behold it was found behind a couch. The oceans have been saved!

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This was a tough one! As you can see, it took me down to the wire. But I got lucky and landed it on the final guess.

A quick and easy puzzle for fans of the movie. Or even people who aren’t fans of the movie but who just like pictures of cartoon fish.

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A 100-piece puzzle that you can do in 5-10 minutes. Just a matter of picking the pieces up and putting them down. But some days that’s all you wannt.

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This is another folk-art puzzle that I really enjoyed doing. I must have done it half-a-dozen times. Nothing tricky about it and lots going on.

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Back when I was doing a lot of puzzles this kind were always my favourite. Because you can pick up almost any piece and from looking at the picture you had a pretty good idea of where it was going to go. We had a few of these folk-art inspired puzzles that I did several times.

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Oh, I hated doing this puzzle. The big sections where the pieces were either all black or all white were bad enough, but the pieces didn’t fit together properly at all. It’s also really long so that’s why it’s on the floor. I actually thought it had been thrown out long ago, but my sister sent me this pic after she finished doing it this past weekend, in part I think to mock my exasperation with it. She said it was hard, but the trick was if a piece wasn’t a perfect easy fit then it was wrong. Pfft.

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You know you’re doing a really cheap puzzle when the pieces don’t fit together properly, or when they’re so thin they bend or tear apart, or . . . when the box doesn’t even tell you what the picture is a picture of! This looks like something Mediterranean, but it could be in the South Seas for all I know. Probably an old picture too so the place may not look the same now. The Geolocator crews could probably identify where it is, but they’re way ahead of me. I just do puzzles.

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A while back I posted a picture of a circular puzzle of a bouquet in an octopus vase. At the time, a keen-eyed commenter asked if it was based on a painting because it was very familiar-looking. I didn’t think it was based on a painting, but this weekend I was watching a documentary on ancient Greek art and saw a vase that I recognized.

It’s actually called an amphora, not a vase. I wasn’t sure what the difference was, so I looked it up. Amphorae are smaller, at least when referring to ancient Greek pottery, and they have narrower necks. But today I think these distinctions are meaningless.

Anyway, this particular octopus amphora is dated to the 15th century BC and was found among the grave goods in a Mycenean cemetery near Argos. The octopus is typical of Minoan vase painting though.

This pretty place is Colmar, France. If you do an image search for Colmar you’ll find this same picture coming up again and again. So maybe these colorful houses on this one street are all there is to see in Colmar. I don’t know as I’ve never been there. I just did the puzzle. Which had one piece missing! See if you can spot it. Argh.

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