Happy Puzzle Day!

Happy Puzzle Day!

When it snowed the other week, I put together my first puzzle of the year. Though it's new to me, it's my most favored company, artist, and form, 1000-piece Charles Wysocki from Buffalo Games called Hickory Haven Canal.



And I just wrote a ficlet about a missing jigsaw puzzle piece in a Watson and Holmes Sussex retirement AU: The Missing Piece for holmes_minor.

I am reading Margaret Drabble's The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws. It's okay. I much prefer the jigsaw parts to the personal history parts.

I borrowed what's called a puzzle pass from my online library system and rediscovered how much I enjoy sudoku. I play Wordle and Spelling Bee every day. I've heard a lot about Murdle but I don't know that I want to spend too much time on logic puzzles.

I have a 500-piece puzzle I may crack open today. It's called...My Happy Place. And jigsaws (and other puzzles) and definitely that!

Music Monday: Missing Piece by Vance Joy

I was trying to think of a song for Music Monday that might go with Puzzle Day, and then Minor had a choral concert on Friday night and they sang this and I thought it would work!
 

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Puzzle Day!

Part 2 of Puzzle Day.

There are a lot of Youtube videos about puzzles but I wanted to highlight two.

This explains Cain's Jawbone which is a word puzzle from 1934.

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And this is a 45 minute documentary I watched last night about wooden puzzle boxes from Odawara, Japan, which is famous for its puzzle boxes. I loved the coffeecup one (at the 5:20 mark) where you put the wooden sugar cubes in a certain place and the puzzle box opens. It just amazes me.

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