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Deal of the Century – Round One

Deal of the Century – Round One

Since starting this blog, I have written a couple of posts regarding my stance on Ravensburger’s 32,000 Double Retrospect which took the title of “World’s Largest Puzzle”* away from Life: The Great Challenge in September, 2010.  As I stated in those posts, I really did not like the artwork on this new record holder AT ALL initially.  Then, as I started to see pictures of other people putting the puzzle together, including this great blog, it started to grow on me just a…

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32,000 Pieces of Steel and Cardboard

32,000 Pieces of Steel and Cardboard

Since January of this year, I have been drooling over a new 32,000 piece puzzle that Ravensburger announced they would release in the US in September.  Of course, come September, some members of the German puzzle forum that I belong to, and one of my Flickr group friends had already gotten their copies.  With a hefty price tag of about $300, I knew it would be quite some time before I was able to justify the cost to Randy…no matter…

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A New York State of Mind

A New York State of Mind

I have always been in love with big city skylines, especially skycrapers, and building architecture in general for as long as I can remember.  As a child I used to check out books from the library about skyscrapers, and from a very young age I dreamed of going to New York City – especially for my honeymoon. 3,000 pcs. –  New York City – Educa 1,500 pcs. – New York City – Ravensburger Of course what I didn’t know growing…

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