{"id":1756,"date":"2023-09-26T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2024-12-05T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:23:49","slug":"thankful-by-jng-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2023\/09\/26\/thankful-by-jng-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful by JNG Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new wooden puzzle maker from Hoefnagle: JNG (Joyful Nook Gallery) Puzzles<\/a>, with “Thankful”<\/a>, a round, highly polished, autumnal \/ Thanksgiving-themed puzzle with large pieces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a quick and easy assemblage, although there were some non-unique pieces with close color matches that meant you did have to pay attention. (The whole puzzle is radially symmetric, but I don’t know if the piece shapes are mostly similar<\/em> or mostly identical and interchangeable<\/em>.) The pieces were a mix of larger pieces, with curves and circular bobs, sometimes symmetrical; small pieces designed to fit into the nooks and crannies; and medium-sized (for this puzzle) s-shaped pieces. The piece design sometimes led to surprising angles for particular pieces, which was pleasant — you’re sort of toying with a piece, thinking it connects to another chunk, somehow, somehow, and then voil\u00e0, you’re right, it does connect — but from a completely surprising orientation you hadn’t been suspecting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most notable aspect of this puzzle to me was the highly finished pieces — they felt like commercial game pieces, almost like a resin \/ artificial ivory kind of feel. It was a kind of pleasant smoothness, but really quite distinct from any other wooden puzzle I’ve done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The art is a graphic style that is not my favorite, but it was bright and colorful and pleasant to put together at the end of a long and stressful day. The graphic simplicity was actually a nice match for the puzzle cut simplicity and polish, too, if I’m thinking about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One whimsy — an adorable turkey — in the middle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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13\u201d Diameter
153 Pieces <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This round, wooden, kaleidoscope-like puzzle will have you hypnotized for hours.  The puzzle pieces are a swirly pattern of curls and turns that twist together perfectly, featuring a cute turkey center puzzle piece. <\/p>\nJNG<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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