A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, days 10 and 11

I missed posting yesterday’s puzzle. I did it but with work, it slipped my mind completely. Honestly, I was just happy to have it be the end of my week and have a couple of days off to take care of things I needed to do.

Yesterday’s puzzle was a fun little challenge. There’s not much in the way of color variation in the puzzle that would help in putting the pieces together. It meant that it was more about piece shape, which I don’t mind. As much as I love finding the right piece with that little bit of blue or purple that fits in a certain spot, I also really enjoy doing the blue skies because it’s all about finding the right piece that fits. You have to look at the squiggles and turns of the piece.

Santa Puzzle by L.S. Johnson

When I saw this one, I chuckled a little. It’s a puzzle of a puzzle. I like the elves helping to piece Santa together. I suppose there’s something more symbolic about Christmas and Santa being more than just single entities but made possible by the hard work of many, but I also liked that Santa is a puzzle. I’ve not done any shaped puzzles, so I’m not sure about the difficulty of one. I imagine that with no clear straight pieces, there is some greater challenge that working on a puzzle that’s a rectangle. Those poor elves, though. The pieces look to be bigger than them. That alone would make the puzzle a challenge.

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