Completed 1st November 2024 * Finger exercises

Please enjoy some more wooden jigsaw puzzles with mindblowing cuts and amazing pictures :-)

 

34 Pieces

The Puzzle that will freeze your brain

by Clive Branson

 

37 Pieces

The Puzzle that is Mind-Numbingly Cold

Adobe Stock

 

 

 

40 Pieces

"Sunflowers, Provence"

by Clive Madgwick

courtesy of Felix Rosenstiel's Widow & Son Ltd., London

80 + 40 Pieces

Spiral shell

40 Pieces

Hamburg - Verwunschen (enchanted)

by Ralf Degen / Repromann

23rd Megamarathon - 5th > 7th January 2024

 Oh yes, it was megamarathon again!

67 participants (including me) from our german jgsaw puzzle forum managed to assemble more than 340k pieces. This is an all-time record! At the end I counted 5.919 pieces.

Here we go!

 On the first day I started assembling many small wooden jigsaw puzzles  

 140 Pieces

Portrait of  King Charles III - artist: Alastair Barford

 

 top left: Spivy Point, Dominic Davison

top right: Florence Bridge, Dominic Davison

below, left: Floors Castle (Aerial View from the River Tweed)

below, right: Venice at dusk, Dominic Davison

 

Sunflowers, Provence

Clive Madgwick

 

top: Skiing - Margaret Loxton

 middle:Forêt tropicale avec singes, 1910 - Herni Rousseau

below:Paris Streets, Dominic Davison

 

top: Snowflakes - Royce B. McClure

middle: Congratulations! - litraton.de

below: the most successful theatre in modern times = football / soccer

 

top: Sky Roads - Royce B. McClure

middle: Aber bitte mit Sahne - Jürgen Gildemeister - litraton.de

Mediterranean Morning - Dominic Davison

 

 

Top: the first and the fastest (2015) - Branth Chemicals, Hamburg

middle: partnerlook from Sylt - Klaro 19 5i - puzzlespezialisten.de

below: Le Pont Japonais - Claude Monet - Christie's Images, 1999

 

Giant's Causeway, Country Antrim - Peter Greenway, National Trust

 

 

Castle Schwerin - S. Andert - puzzlespezialisten.de

 

Afterwards

 

 

 

 

Finished 29th March 2015

150 Pieces

"Thorington Mill" - by Clive Madgwick

Reproduced by courtesy of Felix Rosenstiel's Widow & Son.

"Clive Madgwick is established as one of Britain's most popular and commercially successful artists. His clear, detailed style, coupled with an ability to distil the essence of the English landscape, provided him with a strong market for his original paintings and prints. Something which set Clive Madgwick apart from many landscape artists was his desire to represent the landscape in reality, rather than as it was. Consequently, whilst many painters depicted long-since passed scenes of horse-drawn carts at harvest time, Clive Madgwick preferred to turn his back on sentimentality and paint a tractor ploughing a field.

Born and bred in the Esher area of Surrey, Clive Madgwick's whole family was medical and, after attending Downs End School and Epsom College, he went on to study dental medicine at Guy's Hospital. The surprise to the family came when he turned from dentistry and became an artist. Wholly self-taught, he turned to painting full-time during his early middle age and consequently pursued a highly successful new career."

(source)

 An Optimago handcut wooden Jigsaw puzzle

Optimago is a british manufacturer who started producing in 1979 until 2005.