REVERIE Daydream Puzzle 
by Guest Writer Roberta Shore

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Buffalo Games Ribbon Cut 1000 Pieces Finished Dimensions: 26.75” X 19.75”

REVERIE Daydream Puzzle - Roberta's Review

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REVERIE (Daydream) Buffalo Games Puzzles Ribbon Cut 1000 Pieces Finished Dimensions: 26.75” X 19.75”

REVERIE (Daydream)

Buffalo Games Puzzles

Ribbon Cut

1000 Pieces

Finished Dimensions: 26.75” X 19.75”

My Confident Puzzler Difficulty Level: Hard to Moderate

Oh yes, yet again I’m hedging on the difficulty. Building this beautiful, glitter enhanced illustration was frustrating. There were a couple of annoying quality issues, but that wasn’t why. My sorting was very detailed, yet I couldn’t establish a comfortable flow through any one area. Progress was painfully slow. The fun factor was definitely waning / missing. Relatively speaking, I am a newbie puzzler, only picking up this hobby about 16 months ago. Some.time back, and 100+ puzzles completed (at 135 now!), I decided to call myself “confident puzzler.” I was clearly losing confidence with this one!

Quality: I have done several puzzles from this company, the quality has been consistently great in every category. So I was very surprised to see extremely loose piece fit and false fits in Reverie. This image was unique from the others in their huge selection. I’m only guessing, but it looked like it was possibly supplied by a different manufacturer. The boxing was different - Buffalo’s boxes arrive with the sides of the top and bottom glued together. This box had clear stickers holding it closed. There was quite a bit of glittery puzzle dust. The pieces were sturdy, perhaps a bit thinner, the top layer was pealing up on a few. The enclosed poster did not have a good color match to the pieces. So, not much proof, just a guess. As for the familiar rest - no shrink wrap, the sturdy box was small. The full illustration, with good color match, down to the real glitter accents, was on the box top. Inside the pieces were loose, no bag. They have some sheen. No pieces were missing. About the false fits - in most cases, it was fairly easy to tell the design didn’t match the surrounding pieces. With the frame - I had to redo a part of the left side edge. Hint about piece fit: Correct pieces just slip into place, any forcing, the piece is wrong.

Getting started: find the edge pieces and sort by color. All that glitters is not gold, but the glitter accents did not rub off the pieces as I was sorting through them. And yes, I sorted everything! All that beige! Plain beige, beige with lines, beige with design, lighter beige, darker beige, the flowers, the flower stems, the thick green stems, the patterned arc around her shoulders, the signage at the top, facial features, the ribbon trims, black and white pieces, solid gray pieces — well, you get the picture, Everything!

Construction: I built the frame first. Lining up the sorted pieces by shape was essential! Thank goodness all the traditional shapes were represented! During the sorting, I pieced together the top text. So, I blithely tried to pick it up from my tray. It fell apart. I didn't piece sections together after that! As you can tell from my opener, I had a problem going even piece by piece in any short order! It was a slog! I did connect that text at the top and started filling in the fancy scrollwork. Somewhat incomplete, I went on to the bottom and pieced the ribbon trim. Those repeated flower arcs were trickier than they looked. The painterly aspect also complicated things.

As you can sense from all the sorting, I like to build in an orderly fashion, and see satisfying progress. I was all over the place with this one. Usually, by the time I’ve done all that sorting, I am very familiar with the illustration and where the pieces belong. Not this time!

REVERIE (Daydream) Buffalo Games Puzzles Ribbon Cut 1000 Pieces Finished Dimensions: 26.75” X 19.75”

So much beige! This was not a “challenge” puzzle, nor a “busy” one, per se. But it certainly had a lot of parts! I knew at the end there would be trays of beige dress. When the last piece of “color” was placed, I still had 168 beige pieces left to put in place. My favorite puzzle style is actually large areas of similar color. I was not intimidated by this illustration. I had to own it! I was excited to do it. No wonder I was frustrated! It was finally complete, I felt accomplished, and it is so pretty!

Final thoughts: I’m glad I didn’t bag this up out of frustration. I can keep my self- appointed title! Can I recommend it? Even with loose piece fit, yes. It was hard for me, not even sure exactly why, but seasoned puzzlers would probably consider it moderate.

As a retired graphic designer, I found the history of this artwork interesting. “Reverie is the artwork of famed artist Alphonse Mucha. The lithograph was executed in 1897, originally intended to illustrate the 1898 Champenois company’s calendar. The lithograph was instantly popular and was published in the magazine La Plume with the title Reverie. Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters.”

My grades: Quality B, Fun Factor - okay, A-, it was fun seeing it finished!

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