Boardwalk Puzzles has a series of national park puzzles, and this is the second one I've done (shout out to Darcy for providing them! Lake Tahoe was equally enjoyable.) This one was created by Bruce Martin and is very vibrant. These puzzles are fun to put together, the pieces have really unique shapes, and overall I'm a huge fan! Truthfully, as I scroll through their website looking at all the other national park puzzles available, my biggest gripe with Boardwalk is how clunky their website is. Puzzle quality? 5/5. Website quality? 3/5. Maybe 3.5 because I think it's cool that they include some history about each national park in the puzzle description (added this after I chose the rating because the page took SO LONG to load.) I might have to add .5 to my puzzle rating too, because I'm resisting blowing all my money on the other park puzzles, they're all so good. 5.5/5? Seems fair.
Other useful moments for a quick little puzzle? Downtime during a beach vacation! Side note, does it break the immersion if I acknowledge that I'm writing this post two days after we came back from a trip to Washington in mid-June even though it's not going to be posted for a few months? Sorry if it does. Now you know what I was getting up to three months ago, that's kind of interesting. Or maybe it isn't.
There were SO many puzzles available at the condo we stayed in, and I really wanted to do them all, but I feel like I picked the two best ones, since we were short of time. (I mean, I love puzzles, but I equally love exploring ruins and hiking to a lighthouse and walking the beach and such.)
These are both Ravensburger puzzles, and oh my god, have I reviewed any other Ravensburger puzzles? I forget if I have, but they're SO GOOD. I know I have some at school, and I'm always really impressed with how well they hold together even with little kids messing with them.
I couldn't find who created the first puzzle because inexplicably I'm being blocked from accessing their website, so someone else please try to go to the Ravensburger website and tell me if it works for you. But the second puzzle was created by Nancy Wernersbach, and both are gorgeous. The pieces are pretty standard shapes, but they're very high quality and everything holds together super well. 5/5 puzzles, for sure, and such a delight to work on whilst looking out at the ocean waves. Also, in trying to find the creators of both puzzles without access to their actual website, I've discovered that they have a puzzle featuring the Duomo in Florence, Italy, and uhhhh...I'm gonna be getting my hands on that one, for sure. These puzzles rule.
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