Puff Enough -- Or Really Tough Enough Review

I recently had the chance to puzzle the Puzzlenut-named "Puff Enough" which is nominally a teaser puzzle:



This 2008 teaser with artwork by Betsy Brown features a large puffin with a huge tumbler cavity to hold, you guessed it more puffins.

Now, if you follow my puzzlenut blog you may recall that I finished the 3-sword Luxembourg gardens in only an hour (earlier post). And you might recall that our fearless puzzlenut leader finished Puff Enough in about 90 minutes (June's review).

This one completely crushed me.

The puffins just did not speak to me, I got the border assembled in about 15-20 minutes, but could not get a single puffin placed properly for over three hours. I nearly gave up and then finally flipped the puzzle over and worked it from the wood side to get about half-a-dozen puffins lodged correctly before flipping it back over to finish it, image side up.

Not sure how typical my experience was and/or whether the Puffin imagery just did not speak to me. Personally, I would move this one up towards three-or-four swords in difficulty. But, as you can see just from June/I, your mileage may vary (YMMV) in terms of difficulty, so do not be scared away.

The puffins themselves are adorable and actually quite whimsical. The teaser pieces interplay with each other whimsically also and this is an excellent puzzle.