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Buying Guides
Venice on 1000 Pieces: Ravensburger or Clementoni?
We hold five different 1000 piece Venices from two brands, and there is a $10 gap between them for the same city and the same piece...
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Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Aimee Stewart Puzzles
A self-taught digital artist from Washington State who has become one of the names Australian puzzlers buy by...
Buying Guides
How Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made
A cardboard jigsaw is a printed sheet glued to two millimetres of recycled board and cut in one...
Puzzle Index
The Ravensburger 1000 Index
We took twenty 1000 piece puzzles that have been on sale continuously since 2017 and priced them year...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Holdson Puzzles
A family firm in Auckland has been making jigsaw puzzles since 1939, starting with plywood and a modified...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Cloudberries Puzzles
Almost every puzzle brand sells you a scene. Cloudberries sells you a composition: shells graded by colour, pixels,...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Falcon de Luxe Puzzles
Turn a Falcon piece over and the back is blue, not grey. That is not decoration, it is...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Jumbo Puzzles
Most people who own a Jumbo puzzle do not know it. The company publishes Wasgij, Jan van Haasteren...
Buying Guides
The Best Jigsaw Puzzles in Australia, Judged Honestly
Everyone selling puzzles says theirs are the best. Almost nobody says what "best" means. Here is the honest...
Research
How Often Do People Buy Jigsaw Puzzles?
We went back through six years of orders to answer something we could not find written down anywhere:...
Research
How Long Does a Jigsaw Puzzle Design Stay Popular?
Books get a season. Toys get a Christmas. We went back through six years of our own sales,...
Accessories
Puzzle Boards, Mats and Tables, an Australian Buyer's Guide
The three things people buy to solve the same problem, which is that a puzzle occupies a table...
Brand Guides
The Complete Guide to Thames & Hudson Puzzles
Thames & Hudson has published art books since 1949, founded by two Viennese emigres who wanted to build...
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