I've been really feeling the need for some relief from this miserable southern heat, if only in my mind! This is one of the Xmas puzzles I didn't get to this past year, so I pulled it from the stacks and went to work. I haven't had much time for puzzling the past few weeks, so I only really got to work on it (beyond sorting and building the edge) in the last day or so. I like the art very much, and it's such a nice, welcoming image! (I'd love to have a nice snowy view like this more than once per decade.) Care to guess which areas took me the longest? If you guessed "the millions of tree branches," you're absolutely correct! Those areas took me longer than the entire rest of the puzzle. It wasn't anywhere near the level of the arboreal hell of Be Wary the Silent Night, but I definitely put off those bits for last.
The quality was typical Ravensburger, with one major exception: The reproduction of the art is very low-res and heavily pixelated. This made it basically impossible to examine pieces for details, making those oh-so-delightful masses of bare branches even more fun! I wouldn't be shocked to see such poor reproduction on a dollar store puzzle, but coming from Ravensburger, with their higher prices and pretensions to top-tier quality, this is unacceptable. I looked at some other reviews and saw none that mention this, so I'm not sure if I just got a misprinted puzzle, or if most people just don't notice such things. Whatever the case, the glow in the dark feature works quite well. Here's a bonus pic where the auto adjust messed with the colors a bit, which I thought looked pretty neat.
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