Ocean or Mountains?: Puzzles for Outdoorsy People

A classic getting-to-know you question is “Do you prefer the ocean or the mountains?” If you answered “the mountains,” then I have some puzzles for you!

Yesterday I did a post on ocean puzzles because I’m so excited about summer beach trips, but today I’ve got something for those of you that like the shade that tall trees provide while you go hunting, fishing, or camping in the forest, along a lake or near a river.

Forest Path by Eurographics. 1000 pieces.

Crystal Mill, White River National Forest by Lafayette Puzzle Factory. 1000 pieces.

Bear Lake, Estes Park by Springbok. 500 pieces.

Autumn Bridge by SunsOut. 1500 pieces.

Autumn Innocence by Buffalo Games. 300 pieces.

Bear Creek Crossing by SunsOut. 1000 pieces.

 

Mountains Needle by Educa. 500 pieces. 5000 pieces.

A Time to Dream by Clementoni. 1500 pieces.

Lake Louise by Eurographics. 750 pieces.

 

Summer’s Just Around the Corner: Beach Puzzles

Yesterday I visited the beach for the first time this year. For Oregon, the weather was quite good—sunny and savagely windy. I came home with sand in my socks, sea salt sprayed all over my pants, and a belly full of clam chowder and raw oysters. We collected sea shells to make sea shell mason jars and I found my first-ever in-tact sand dollar! All in all, it was a lovely day and it inspired me to share some of our equally lovely seaside puzzles since summer’s just around the corner and beach days are going to be much more common for those of us flanking the coasts!

Seashells by Springbok. 1500 pieces. 29″ x 36″.

Shell Seekers by White Mountain. 550 pieces. 18″ x 24″.

Ocean of Devotion by Lang. 500 pieces. 18″ x 24″.

What a Beach! by White Mountain. 1000 pieces. 24″ x 30″.

Beach Puppies by Cobble Hill. 1000 pieces. 26.625″ x 19.25″.

Key West by Dowdle Folk Art. 500 pieces. 16″ x 20″.

Twilight Moon by SunsOut. 1000 pieces. 16″ x 34″.

Sunset by Educa. 1000 pieces. 68 x 48 cm.

Boats on a Tropical Beach by Lafayette Puzzle Factory. 1500 pieces. 23″ x 33″.

 

Learn while you puzzle with Eurographics!

Eurographics is a great brand that offers you a learn experience while you puzzle. As one of the leading art distributors in North America, Eurographics has a great selection of puzzles and games relating to art history, but also world history, geography, and more! Their puzzles feature many images for those people that love to organize and catalogue almost any and every topic!

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Solar System. 750 pieces.

Pluto was recently downgraded to a dwarf planet and joined 3 other known dwarf planets in our solar system: Ceres, Eris, and Makemake. With improved telescopes, scientists expect to discover more.

Circulatory System. 1000 pieces.

If you were just to count the cells, you might be horrified to find that you have more bacterium cells living inside your body than human cells. Most of these bacteria cells are friendly, some are even beneficial.

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Periodic Table of Elements. 1000 pieces.

Currently there are 118 elements on the periodic table, 90 which occur in nature and the rest being manmade. Most of the elements are metals. Scientists are now working on creating Element 120, which would change the way the periodic table now looks.

History of Trains. 1000 pieces.

One of the first movies ever made by the Lumiére brothers was a simple fifty second film of a train arriving in a station. It mesmerized people that a moving image could capture something that happened in the past and be replayed. There’s a myth that the people ran from the theater because they thought the train would jump out of the screen to run them all over.

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Coral Reef by Eurographics. 1000 pieces.

The Great Barrier Reef is about 500,000 years old, with the current structure at about age 8,000 years old… pretty young, considering the first coral reefs started about 500 million years ago and the first close relatives of modern coral reefs popped up approximately 230 million years ago.

Da Vinci. 1000 pieces.

It was pretty rare for his time period, but Da Vinci was actually a vegetarian for humanitarian reasons.

Great Composers. 1000 pieces.

The Baroque Period of Art and Music came after the Protestant Reformation, and it changed the focus of art. The interest in a capella music waned and there was a surge of interest in art which could evoke visceral and emotional responses. In the Baroque era, the first opera house came into existence in Venice in 1637.

The Atom. 1000 pieces.

There are 2 sextillion atoms of oxygen in one drop of water. Imagine how many are in a puzzle piece—or in 1000 puzzle pieces!

Take our Survey, win a Prize! [Free Puzzle Giveaway]

We’re trying to make our blog even better every day, but we need your help! Sometimes writing about puzzles can be puzzling in itself, so we want to know: what types of posts do you enjoy reading most? This little survey will take less than 2 minutes to answer, and in return you will be entered into a drawing to win a free 500 or 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle or your choice!
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The survey will be open for 1 week until May 21st at 11:59 pm PST, so if you’ve never gotten a chance to read the blog before, you’ll have some time to browse it. Don’t forget to leave your email address if you’d like to be entered to win any 500 or 1000 piece puzzle —any one you want! Look some of these over to get inspired.

Atlantic City by Eurographics. 1000 pieces.

White Tiger Face by SunsOut. 1000 pieces.

Balloons Aglow by White Mountain. 1000 pieces.

Garden Border by Pomegranate. 500 pieces.

Buttons by Ravensburger. 500 pieces.

Duomo – Milan by Clementoni. 500 pieces.

 

 

Happy Mother’s Day! And waterfalls.

This post is for my mom because, as you know, it’s Mother’s Day. And since my mom is wonderful and supportive, she follows this blog and gets notified of the updates. Today we’re going puppy shopping together because she’s thinking about getting a dog, but I know something my mom loves more than warm, cuddly puppies if you can believe it.

My mom loves waterfalls. She often goes out into the woods or goes driving around Oregon to find them. So, since I love my mom and my mom loves waterfalls, here’s some of our best waterfall posts—and a post publicly declaring that I have the best mom in the world—for you, and also a little bit, for her.

Mackay Falls, New Zealand by Ravensburger. 1000 pieces.

Heritage Cardinals by SunsOut. 1000 pieces.

Rainbow Setting by SunsOut. 500 pieces.

 

Big Bear Falls by SunsOut. 600 pieces.

Butterflies in the Mist by SunsOut. 1000 pieces.

Niagara Falls by Buffalo Games. 750 pieces.

Elephant by Heye. 1000 pieces.

Waterfall in All Provinces by Peaceful Wooden Puzzles. Starting at 430 pieces, largest is 890 pieces.