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Chocolate choices - Sarah Long / Happy Piece - Buffalo, 1000 pcs (2026)

Surprise #2: A puzzle buddy went to her Target and found all the Happy Piece I want from the new batch. Thank you Puzzle Angel!

u/elisewong18 — 10 days ago

Dutch quilt sampler - Anisa Makhoul / eeboo, 1000 pcs (2022)

I finished this last week but was missing a pc. Looked high and low and finally emailed the seller. They found it under the table. "It was a miracle!" they said.

u/elisewong18 — 15 days ago

Number 34 - Jackson Pollack / Wentworth, 250 pcs (2021)

Typo: Pollock. Painted in 1949. Oil and enamel on white paperboard mounted on Masonite. Tate Liverpool. Jackson Pollock was a titan of Abstract Expressionism and one of the most famous American artists of the 20th century. He pioneered an acrobatic process which produced large-scale, gestural, all-over drip paintings, or “action paintings.”

Thank you for the thoughtful gift, generous redditor, for my unicorn puzzle.

u/elisewong18 — 20 days ago

Iconic women - Weronika Salach / Educa, 1000 pcs (2025)

Artist project: A big puzzle "Women Who Changed the World" featuring 36 iconic women, focusing on the following categories:

  • Scientists & Inventors
  • Activists & Changemakers
  • Writers & Artists
  • Leaders & Pioneers
  • Athletes & Explorers
  • Black Women Who Changed the World
  • Cultural Icons

No insert included. I only counted 35. Who am I missing? I couldn't recognize quite a few. Help!

  1. Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity 
  2. ? Brown cap regency white dress
  3. ? Junko Tabei
  4. Coco Chanel (wearing iconic layered pearls), a fashion designer who created the global luxury brand Chanel.  
  5. ? White cap blue blouse night sky
  6. Bessie Coleman – Early civil aviator pictured near the top right airplane motif
  7. ? Josephine Baker
  8. Queen Elizabeth I
  9. ? Flower pin maroon shawl
  10. Sacagawea (with the baby), an explorer who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory
  11. Angela Davis (Afro hair floral purple blouse and raised clenched-fist gesture—known as the Black Power or Black liberation salute), political activist and philosopher
  12. Malala Yousafzai (Wearing a red headscarf), activist and producer who advocates for girls' education and women's rights 
  13. Iris Apfel,  businesswoman, fashion icon, and interior designer known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses
  14. Anne Frank, German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim 
  15. Sojourner Truth (white cap and maroon shawl), abolitionist and women's rights activist
  16. ? Silver hair yellow dress
  17. Annie Londonderry (Grey jacket blue dress and hat with bicycle), first woman to cycle around the world
  18. Katherine Johnson (Holding a clipboard near a launching rocket ship on the right), a NASA mathematician and human computer whose orbital mechanics calculations were crucial to the success of the US space program's early crewed spaceflights
  19. Greta Thunberg (girl in yellow holding save the world sign), activist known for pressuring governments to address climate change and social issues.
  20.  Ruby Bridges (school girl), a civil rights activist. First African American child to attend formerly whites-only school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960 
  21. ? Brunette hair, flowers on purple dress
  22. ? Swimmer diving
  23. Amelia Earhart, wearing her pilot goggles and a leather flight jacket. 
  24. Emmeline Pankhurst (holding sign of vote for women), political activist who organized the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland
  25. Beatrix Potter (sketching a rabbit on paper), writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist 
  26. Clara Barton – Nursing pioneer wearing a red cross symbol on her head covering.
  27. Catherine the Great (queen in robe), empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. Her long reign helped Russia thrive under a golden age during the Enlightenment.
  28. Serena Williams, served as an official torchbearer during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games 
  29. Joan of Arc, patron saint of France 
  30. Ada Lovelace, mathematician and writer who is considered the world's first computer programmer 
  31. Harriet Tubman (holding a lantern), helped enslaved people escape to freedom
  32. Nellie Bly (in green checker-ed coat), a journalist and women's rights advocate who traveled around the world in 72 days, inspired by Jules Verne
  33. Nettie Stevens (looking into microscope), discovered sex chromosomes 
  34. Cleopatra, the last active pharaoh of Egypt 
  35. ? Blue dress, hat, and basket
  36. ?
u/elisewong18 — 23 days ago