Dreaming of Ewe (and U and You and Ewe)

Puzzle	Dreaming of Ewe
Artist	Dee Rogers
Type	Teaser
Catalog Picture

Here's another 2003-2004 timeframe teaser that I got to enjoy puzzling recently. I didn't fully appreciate some of the details in Dee's artwork from the catalog picture, here's a close up on a segment:

Yes, it's that punny. Funny too.

Our sleepy fox has an alarmclock and a sheep nightlite and is counting sheep.

Yes, the sheep are numbered, but NO, they are not in order.

This is a very enjoyable two-sword teaser with great art and great design that really come together. If you are looking for a challenge, this is on the easier side of two-swords. In terms of difficulty this met the Goldilocks test, not too hard, not too easy, but rather just right. Someone had asked me to post times and I finished this one in about 30 minutes, but again my times for a lot of these tend to be on the faster side, I suspect 60+ minutes would be more typical given the 80 piece count.

What struck me about this puzzle was that I had "missed it", noticing other ~70-120 piece teasers but not this one, for example "Blast Off!" has entered my latent memory more than this one (review coming soon), but I actually enjoyed this one more that "Blast Off!", so go figure.

It's also been a good reminder to me that the Stave web site can be sneaky about showing search results or even browsing so sometimes if you look, look again, you'll find some puzzles you hadn't seen in a catalog or a previous search.

Anyhow, this is a solid puzzle, has great art, great replay value, so I would rate this quite highly.

(BTW while I know some of the reason for the reviews is to help people think about what they want and share my experiences I'm also happy to share among the puzzles I've done which was my "rank order" between them etc for specific purchasing suggestions, but keep in mind your mileage may vary (YMMV).)