Another year has come and gone, and what a time it’s been. Joe and the cats and I moved into a new place in Halifax, which took ages to get set up and arranged, which ate into my puzzling time! We also went on a really fun week camping trip to Cape Breton, both my parents and my Oma visited at different times this year, and I did some really cool puzzles, as well as knitted a few special items and read some good books. We ate plenty of delicious food and watched a lot of good and some not so good movies! Just to name a few of my 2025 highlights.
But I know we’re here to find out which puzzles I enjoyed the most this year. I’ll start off by saying that I just don’t feel like I got to puzzle as much as I would have liked, the set up in our new place just took a while and it took me a long time to find a spot to puzzle that felt good. That’s not to say that there weren’t some really fun puzzles that graced by boards this year, so here goes with my fifth favourite puzzle of the year.
I really loved this Micronauts puzzle from American Publishing Corp, 1978. I think this puzzle is such a treasure, and the composition of the puzzle image is fabulous! I covered in my blog post that I didn’t know what a Micronaut is, (I have a better idea now) but this puzzle is just so incredibly cool to me.
The next puzzle on my list is another one for the 80’s kids out there! E.T. from Springbok, a 1982 release, it’s 1000 pieces and this puzzle was just so much fun. For some reason this scene from E.T. reminds me so much of my bedroom from when I was a little kid back in 1988/89. I had a small room off of my main bedroom, it was probably a walk in closet, but to me it felt like a secondary room. I kept my stuffies in that room arranged in a similar way, I used to imagine that E.T. was hiding in with all my stuffed animals and that I’d find him there!
This may be a bit of a surprise but aside from the fact that I love a fun collage puzzle and that White Mountain does make a great product, I loved White Mountain’s Cereal Boxes for the memory of working together with my Oma on this puzzle. She and I worked on this together over a few days and evenings, she mostly hunted for the pieces and then put together a few smaller sections.
Prism Kaleidoscope from Springbok in 1967 featuring the psychedelic art stylings of Peter Max. I mean, we had to know this would be on the list, the aesthetic of this puzzle is solid gold. I was absolutely delighted to add this puzzle to my collection of rare vintage puzzles and it truly made the perfect birthday puzzle.
And finally we have Jaymar’s The Adorables – In the Park. This puzzle is so unlike anything I’ve found, it’s cute, it’s creepy, the quality was amazing and the colour saturation, and box graphics are so good. It’s really a complete package for a vintage puzzle fan like myself.
Well, there you have it, friends. Some of my most memorable puzzles from the whole of last year. I do have to say that looking back always reminds me how lucky I am to find all the amazing puzzles that I do, it can be really tough to pare this list down! I hope you enjoyed it, and feel free to leave a comment if you think I missed one!
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