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Puzzle box with old posters advertising jazz shows of various famous artists, with a black woman in the forefront wearing glasses and her arms crossed. A thank you note is placed on top of the box.

Next Up: Talkin’ All That Jazz

  • Jenny 

Whew, it’s been a minute since I last got to write one of these! Our next puzzle is Talkin’ All That Jazz by Tim Okamura from an awesome company, Apostrophe Puzzles! Apostrophe is a black-led,… 

Wrap-Up: Detroit Map

  • Clark 

After over a month, we finished our Lantern Press Detroit map puzzle today and…  It’s hard to find words about this one. This one was hard. I should be clear that it was not bad. … 

Next Up: Detroit Map

  • Clark 

With “The Solar System” wrapped up, our next puzzle is going to be a map of the City of Detroit by Lantern Press. This is one of the puzzles I picked up after we finished… 

Finished puzzle of the solar system. Planets and moons are laid out in rows instead of in orbit

Wrap Up: The Solar System

  • Jenny 

We took advantage of this frigid Saturday in Michigan to spend some time finishing The Solar System Puzzle and drink some hot cocoa. As expected, the planets came together relatively quickly. It was a little… 

Picture of the puzzle box with black background, pictures of all the planets and some moons in the solar system

Next Up: The Solar System

  • Jenny 

Last night we unboxed and got started on the The Solar System from New York Puzzle Company. This is the second of the three that I ordered at the end of December for us to… 

Wrap-Up: Custom Fantasy Hockey Design

  • Clark 

We finished off our custom DFHL All-Star jersey puzzle last night, deliberately timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the league’s first games. We took some time off from the puzzle to make sure… 

Picture of the box of the finished palace puzzle

Puzzle Break: A 3D Frozen Puzzle

  • Jenny 

For Christmas, the kiddo got a 3D Frozen puzzle from Santa that is Elsa’s Ice Palace from the first Frozen movie. She wanted to do the puzzle this weekend, so this morning and a little… 

Next Up: Custom Fantasy Hockey Design

  • Clark 

When Jenny and I decided that we’d be alternating on choosing our puzzles, I knew that I wanted to try to have a custom design made up, so I started shopping around for places that… 

finished puzzle of a scene from Christmas at Hogwarts showing Harry at a table with three of the Weasley boys watching him open a wizard cracker that contains a pirate hat. Hagrid, McGonagall, Cho, and Dumbledore look on. Dumbledore is holding an enormous wand in one hand and an owl on his other arm

Wrap Up: Christmas at Hogwarts

  • Jenny 

Here we are 10 days later with a finished (ish) Christmas at Hogwarts Puzzle from New York Puzzle Co! Why ish? Let’s take a closer look! There’s always at least one or two spots when… 

photo shows a puzzle box with refs, yellows, blues, and oranges, depicting a scene of Hogwarts at Christmas

Next Up: Christmas at Hogwarts

  • Jenny 

Yesterday, as we hinted on Instagram, a box of puzzles I ordered from New York Puzzle Co arrived, and of the three in it, I picked the 1000 piece Christmas as Hogwarts to get started!…