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Wrap-Up: Sherlock Holmes

  • Clark 

After about a week of actual effort (the Next Up post for this one was published several days before we actually started work on it), “Sherlock Holmes” by New York Puzzle Company is done. I’d… 

Next Up: Sherlock Holmes

  • Clark 

After Jenny picked “Harry Potter Quidditch” as our last puzzle in early October, I’d decided that the shadowy, dark design of New York Puzzle Company’s “Sherlock Holmes” fit the Halloween season nicely and would be… 

Wrap-Up: Harry Potter Quidditch

  • Jenny 

We took a little longer with this puzzle than we usually do. It was hard to get going on this puzzle, not really sure why. I think I had issues in part because, as I… 

Front of Quidditch 1000 piece puzzle box

Next Up: Harry Potter Quidditch

  • Jenny 

It’s been a hot sec since we did a puzzle from New York Puzzle Company – and with the Hogwarts Quidditch season upon us once more – we are breaking out the 1,000 piece Harry… 

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… 

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!… 

How We Got Here

  • Clark 

Jenny and I didn’t decide to blog about puzzling until after we’d done a few in quick succession. So how did we get here? These are the puzzles we completed before the blog. NY Times…