{"title":"Puzzles 100–199 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe middle of the range, and most of it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween a hundred and a hundred and ninety-nine pieces sit more of our designs than in any other range, and it is the count most people choose. It is where a wooden puzzle becomes a project without becoming a commitment: an evening, as a rough guide, two to four hours for most designs, and the boards nearest two hundred spill into a second sitting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat changes above a hundred pieces?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelow this count each piece is still recognisably part of something – an ear, a paw, a section of tail. Above it they stop being parts and become fragments, and the puzzle changes from placing to solving. That is the threshold this range sits on. A hundred and twenty pieces is not marginally harder than thirty-five; it is a different task, which is why our children's boards stop at thirty-five and our adult designs start here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy do these take longer than the count suggests?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe outline follows the animal, so there is no rectangular border to anchor from. On the symmetrical designs – the butterflies, the frontal portraits – every piece has a mirror twin that looks identical and will not fit, and only the direction of the curve separates them. Ornament repeats across large areas, so colour sorting gets you to a region and no further. Most people end up starting from the eye or the muzzle, which is the one high-contrast feature on almost every board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is in this range?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of our ornamental animal silhouettes, from the Green Turtle at exactly a hundred pieces to the Flaming Phoenix at a hundred and ninety-nine. The three butterflies. Five of the six gift-box editions with their wooden boxes. The two planets, Planet Terra seen from orbit and Planet Marina, and the France Discovery map cut to the outline of the country. And one round painted design, the Liberty Eagle at a hundred and fifty; the other round designs, and the photographic landscape discs, all sit above two hundred. The three 3D cardboard sculptures that share the count are a different product, layered card built on rods, with \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/3d-cardboard-sculptures\"\u003ea page of their own\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow do I choose within it?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePiece count alone will not tell you which is harder. A design with flat colour blocks and hard outlines is faster than one with a continuous gradient at the same count, and a mirrored butterfly at a hundred and seventy-five pieces takes longer than a two-hundred-piece animal. Each product page says where the difficulty sits on that particular board. Lighter, or for a child: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/puzzles-under-100-pieces\"\u003eunder 100 pieces\u003c\/a\u003e. The deep end: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/puzzles-200-plus-pieces\"\u003e200 pieces and over\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"coq-chanteur-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Singing Rooster Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAll head and plumage\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rooster is drawn as a bust rather than a whole bird: a proud profile, comb thrown up in red flames, wattle at the throat, and the neck feathers cascading down in long curved plumes that make up half the board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe plumes run through turquoise, emerald, cobalt and magenta in banded chevrons; the comb is deep red paisley; the dark beak is nearly the only quiet thing on the board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe farmyard, in pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure pieces are livestock: a goat, a sheep, a cow, a horse, a fox, a duck, a pig. It is the most literal set we cut – where the fox holds forest and the cat holds cats, the rooster holds the yard it lives in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral sit in the plumes, where the pattern is busiest and they are hardest to spot before you lift them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the difficulty concentrates\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe plumes. Each one is a long curved shape filled with chevrons that repeat along its length, and the plumes overlap. A piece can belong to any of four or five plumes and look correct in all of them until the chevrons are checked for direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe comb and the head are the place to start: red against everything else, and asymmetric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe smallest of our large birds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 116 pieces and 29 × 20 cm this is the most compact of the four large birds, and the only one that fits a narrow wall. The phoenix, the parrot and the owl all need considerably more space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256686198915,"sku":"PC005","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Coq-Chanteur-puzzle-en-bois-2.jpg?v=1780866572"},{"product_id":"tendre-chat-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Gentle Cat Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA cat made of cats\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA full body rather than a head: the cat sits in profile with its head turned towards you, tail curled around its feet. The ornament is paisley rather than tribal, built from teardrops, spirals and small flowers in red, ochre, cobalt and violet, packed tight enough that no area of the board is ever plain. The eyes are pale blue and the nose is a single flat pink shape – together with the pale muzzle, the only corner of the board where the pattern gives way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe figural pieces stay in the family\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere other puzzles scatter unrelated wildlife through the image, this one keeps to a theme. The pieces hidden inside the body are cats and fish: cats sitting, walking, stretching, arching. Everything here belongs to the cat's world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are spread across the chest, the haunch and the tail rather than clustered in one place, so the cat empties out gradually as you lift them free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe small cats ask to be found one at a time and lined up beside the board rather than put back. By the last piece there is a little procession standing next to the puzzle – if the recipient has a cat of their own, that is the moment the gift lands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat makes this one demanding\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are no large fields of a single colour anywhere on the board. The paisley motifs repeat at a small scale across the whole body, which means a piece from the shoulder and a piece from the tail can carry near-identical fragments of pattern. Orientation is the tell: the spirals lie along the curve of the body, so a piece that looks right but sits at the wrong angle almost certainly belongs elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe face is the exception. The eyes, the pink nose and the pale muzzle form the one recognisable island on the board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAfterwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe seated silhouette holds together as a shape on its own, with the curled tail closing the outline at the base. It reads clearly from across a room even at this size, which is not true of every animal in the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if you'd rather have a cat that naps than one that poses, the same animal exists in paint: the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/zen-cat-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eZen Cat\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Wooden box","offer_id":47256686231683,"sku":"PC010","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cardboard box","offer_id":48045200900227,"sku":"PC111","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Tendre-Chat-Puzzle-en-bois-1.jpg?v=1780866573"},{"product_id":"lion-majestueux-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Majestic Lion Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA lion built from the animals of his own savannah\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe portrait faces you straight on, and the mane is where the work is. Each strand is a separate feather-shaped segment filled with its own pattern, in orange, yellow, turquoise, lilac and deep red, so the fur reads as ornament rather than as hair. The eyes are the one calm part of the design: pale blue-grey, and the only place on the board where the pattern stops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe animals hidden in the mane\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScattered through the lion are figural pieces cut in the shape of other creatures. An elephant, a rhino, a giraffe, a tortoise, a striped hyena, birds in flight, and two palm trees. Lift one out and it leaves a clean silhouette in the board, which is how you notice them at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey sit inside the mane and the muzzle rather than around the edges, so you meet them mid-assembly rather than at the start. Several are small enough to pass for ordinary pieces until you notice the outline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is also where the table gets loud. The animals pass for ordinary pieces just long enough that every discovery becomes an announcement – nobody holds up a plain piece to show the room, but everybody holds up the giraffe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the mane fights you\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same warm palette repeats across every strand of the mane, and the strands themselves are close to symmetrical, so two pieces from opposite sides of the head can look interchangeable until you try them. What separates them is the pattern inside: a row of zigzags against a row of dots, a turquoise field against a lilac one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStart at the eyes and the nose – the only high-contrast areas on the board – then work outward through the muzzle before attempting the mane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the lion has stood for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lion has carried the same meaning across an unusual number of cultures: solar power, courage and rule. Sekhmet in Egypt, the lions of Greek myth, the Lion of Judah in Christian art, and the lion that dominates European heraldry more than any other beast. It is one of the few animal symbols that does not reverse itself from one tradition to the next, which is part of why it works as a gift for someone who would find a wolf or an owl ambiguous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOn the wall afterwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinished, it is small enough for a bookshelf or a narrow stretch of wall beside a door. The silhouette needs no frame, and the dark outer edge of the mane does the work a frame normally would. And if you prefer facets to ornament, the same animal exists in a second temperament: the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/the-lion-mozaik-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eLion Mozaik\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Wooden box","offer_id":47256686362755,"sku":"PC009","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cardboard box","offer_id":48045200834691,"sku":"PC110","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Lion-Majestueux-Puzzle-en-bois-2.jpg?v=1780866576"},{"product_id":"amusante-girafe-puzzle-en-bois","title":"The Funny Giraffe Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA giraffe looking down at you\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe head is frontal but tilted, so the animal appears to be leaning down rather than standing level. The ears splay wide to either side, worked in rose, lavender and teal, while the face runs gold and ochre with a burgundy neck below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eyes are the giveaway. They are drawn with long lashes and dark rims, and there is a distinct crease around the mouth that reads as amusement, which is where the name comes from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThree treatments on one board\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ears carry long feathered strokes in cool colours. The face is dense zentangle in warm ones, crowned by a beaded band across the brow with pendant drops hanging from it and a flower at each temple. The neck below is different again: broad burgundy patches separated by gold lines, which is the giraffe's actual coat pattern rather than ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose three areas sort apart immediately, and each is built with a different method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA savannah inside the head\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figural pieces are the animals a giraffe shares ground with: a gorilla, a monkey, a rhinoceros, an elephant, a hippo, an antelope, a flamingo, a hyena, a camel, a palm tree, and a smaller giraffe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey sit across the face and the neck rather than around the edges, and lifting them leaves clean silhouettes in the pattern – the half-built board reads as a giraffe full of holes shaped like the rest of the savannah.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it slows down\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe neck. The coat pattern repeats: burgundy patch, gold line, burgundy patch, all the way down, and the patches are similar enough in shape that pieces from different rows are interchangeable at a glance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ears have the opposite problem – they mirror each other almost exactly, so a piece from the left will sit convincingly on the right until the direction of the strokes is checked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eyes and the muzzle. They sit on the centre line, carry the only asymmetric detail on the board, and fix the head before either the ears or the neck is attempted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256686428291,"sku":"PC018","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/LAmusante-Girafe-Puzzle-en-bois.jpg?v=1780866577"},{"product_id":"adorable-koala-puzzle-en-bois","title":"The Adorable Koala Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA koala on a branch, in colours it does not have\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe animal clings to a branch that runs diagonally across the board, and the ornament runs the full spectrum: turquoise, magenta, yellow, violet and green, outlined heavily in black. Nothing about the palette is naturalistic, and that is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe diagonal composition is unusual for us. Most of our animals sit square to the board; this one runs across it, which makes the finished shape read as movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAustralia, in pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figural pieces are the continent's own animals: a kangaroo with a joey, an emu, a platypus, a wombat, an echidna, a crocodile, a dingo, and a smaller koala. It is the most geographically specific set we cut – nothing in it lives anywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey sit through the body and around the branch, and several are small enough to pass for ordinary pieces until turned over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBlack outlines change the assembly\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery ornamental area on this board is bounded by a heavy black line, which none of our other adult boards does. That gives almost every piece a hard edge to match against, and it makes a 120-piece board considerably faster than the same count worked in open ornament – the rabbit at 122 is the slower build by some distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf the ornamental range has been frustrating rather than absorbing, this is the one to try.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe branch. It runs the full diagonal, is the darkest line on the board, and divides the composition into two halves that can be built separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a second koala in the range: the round \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/koala-mandala-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eKoala Mandala\u003c\/a\u003e at 250 pieces, painterly where this one is graphic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256686526595,"sku":"PC020","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/LAdorable-_D0_9Aoala-Puzzle-en-bois-2.jpg?v=1780866579"},{"product_id":"doux-lapin-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Gentle Rabbit Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA rabbit crouched, ears back\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe animal is shown in profile, low to the ground with its ears laid along its back, which is the posture a rabbit takes when it is watching rather than fleeing. The palette is warm almost throughout: gold, ochre, rust and olive, with darker rust along the haunch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is one of the widest boards in this group at 32 × 25 cm, and the low crouched pose uses all of that width.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRabbits inside the rabbit\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figural pieces keep to the subject: smaller rabbits in several poses, sitting, running, ears up, ears down. Among them sit leaves, a carrot, and a pair of what can only be painted eggs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are spread across the back and haunch rather than clustered, so the board empties gradually as you lift them out, and the half-built puzzle reads as a rabbit full of rabbit-shaped holes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the difficulty concentrates\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe haunch. It is the largest single area on the board, worked in dotted rust ornament that repeats at a small scale, and there is no line running through it to break it up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe face and the ear tips are the opposite: the eye is a hard dark shape and the ears carry long directional strokes, both of which place immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eye, then the ears along the back, then work down into the body. 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The ornament runs the full spectrum – gold, turquoise, magenta, green – with no single colour dominating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tail is nearly half the composition. It falls in long feathered strands that taper to points well below where a bird's body would end, which is what gives the design its height.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe figure pieces are not animals\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pieces hidden inside are mythical rather than real: winged horses, a rider on horseback, small phoenixes, and human figures among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere in this collection the pieces belong to the animal's own world – the cat holds cats, the fox holds forest. The phoenix has no habitat, so it holds the company a mythical bird would keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere 199 pieces make themselves felt\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wings mirror each other, and they are the largest continuous area on a board this size. A piece from the left wing carries the same feather pattern in the same colours as its twin on the right, and only the direction of the curve separates them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tail does not have that problem. It is asymmetric, the strands differ in colour along their length, and it is where to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOn the wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt this size the phoenix needs a wall of its own: a little taller than it is wide, wings at full stretch, tail trailing below. 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Regions are named in ribbons across the map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the largest boards we cut, at 38 cm – and the only one shaped like a country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe landmarks are pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe best of it: many of the drawings lift out whole. The Eiffel Tower, the rooster, a hot-air balloon and their neighbours are cut as figure pieces, so placing them is placing the landmark itself – and a finished map hides them in plain sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRegions are the sorting method\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are grouped geographically, so the board divides naturally into six or seven areas, each with its own palette and its own set of drawings. Pieces sort by region rather than by colour, which is a faster method than either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe coastline is the anchor. 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The head and breast run red and orange; the wings shade from the red shoulders through teal into deep blue at the tips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe colour change happens across the wings rather than down the body, so the board is warm in the middle and cool at both extremes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe wingspan is the difficulty\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wings run almost the full 37 cm and carry the same feather pattern along their length, repeating at a regular interval. A piece from the inner wing and one from the outer can be identical in pattern and differ only slightly in hue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePosition along the wing has to be judged by the gradient rather than by the drawing, and the gradient is gradual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAn aviary inside the parrot\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure pieces are all birds: smaller parrots, a toucan, a flamingo, a hummingbird, doves. A whole tropical aviary is cut into the board, each one lifting out as a complete silhouette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe head. It carries the red, the eye and the beak, and it is the only part of the board with hard features rather than pattern. Build outward along one wing at a time rather than working both in parallel, since the two are near-identical and pieces will cross between them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256686887043,"sku":"PC021","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/LExotique-Perroquet-Puzzle-en-bois-4.jpg?v=1780866587"},{"product_id":"ecureuil-touffu-puzzle-en-bois","title":"The Fluffy Squirrel Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAutumn, worked into a squirrel\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe squirrel sits upright on a tuft of green grass with its tail curled over its back, and the whole board runs autumn: rust, amber, ochre and deep orange, cooled only by patches of green and violet through the tail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is as warm a palette as we cut anywhere, and the colour scheme belongs to a season rather than to the animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe forest floor in pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figural pieces are a complete autumn woodland: a hedgehog, a mushroom, a bird, a pine cone, an acorn, an apple, leaves of two kinds, a fir tree, a wolf, a fox cub, a deer, a bear, and smaller squirrels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFourteen shapes – one of the largest figure sets we cut. On most designs they are a handful; here they are a scene in their own right, and laid out together they read as a forest floor with the squirrel absent from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the difficulty sits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tail. It is the largest area on the board, curls back on itself, and the ornament within it repeats in scale though not in shape. Pieces from the inner and outer curve carry similar fragments and fit in more than one plausible orientation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe face and the front paws are the anchors: the eye is dark and hard-edged, and the paws break the outline where nothing else does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe head and paws, then the body, and close the tail last once it is bounded on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256686985347,"sku":"PC024","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/IMG_5857.jpg?v=1780866591"},{"product_id":"planete-terra-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Planet Terra Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Earth from orbit, Europe and Africa facing\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA satellite photograph of the planet with Europe, Africa and the Middle East turned toward the viewer. Cloud spirals across the northern hemisphere, the Sahara runs pale ochre through the centre, and the ocean is the deep blue that occupies most of the board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe subject and the shape agree – a round picture of a round object – which is what the planet boards have that nothing else here does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLand against water\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe continents are the easy part. Coastlines are the sharpest boundaries on the board and every piece carrying one can be placed quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ocean is not. It runs blue with only faint variation, and roughly half the disc is water. Cloud helps where it appears, which is mostly in the north – and the figure pieces help everywhere: a ship, a plane and other small shapes cut into the blue, each one placeable the moment it is recognised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits in the range\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 118 pieces and 25 cm this is the smallest of our three planets and the entry point to them. Planet Marina is larger and busier; Little Terra at 35 pieces is for children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687050883,"sku":"PC007","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Plane_CC_80te-Terra-Puzzle-en-Bois-7.jpg?v=1780866595"},{"product_id":"licorne-feerique-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Fabulous Unicorn Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA mane that runs the length of the board\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe unicorn's head is in profile at the left, and everything to the right of it is mane: long flowing strands in blue, violet, rose and gold that sweep back and fill two thirds of the surface. The horn spirals up from the brow; the muzzle below is left pale grey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe head itself is the smallest part of the composition, which is unusual. In most of our animal designs the face dominates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eNot the pink version\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnicorn products at this scale are usually pastel and glittery. This one is worked in the same ornamental vocabulary as our tigers and foxes: dense zentangle, saturated colour, hard boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it the version for someone who wants a unicorn and not a child's unicorn. (For young hands we cut the watercolour \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/the-little-unicorn-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eLittle Unicorn\u003c\/a\u003e at twenty pieces.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe mane is where the time goes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe strands run roughly parallel across the whole board and the colour sequence repeats along them. A piece from the upper mane and one from the lower can carry the same three hues in the same order, and position along the strand is what places them rather than colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe horn and the eye are the two hard-edged features and the only asymmetric details. Build from there and work backward into the mane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA fairy tale in the mane\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figural pieces are a complete storybook: smaller unicorns and horses, a dragon, a wizard, a castle, a crown, a rainbow, a star, a gem, butterflies. No other design of ours hides a world this far from a real habitat – the unicorn keeps the company it was invented in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Wooden box","offer_id":47256687083651,"sku":"PC011","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cardboard box","offer_id":47256687116419,"sku":"PC076","price":25.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/La-Licorne-Feerique-Puzzle-en-bois-2.jpg?v=1780866596"},{"product_id":"bouledogue-fidele-puzzle-en-bois","title":"The Faithful Bulldog Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePainted in the dog's own colours\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA French bulldog lying down, head forward, ears up. Every other animal design in this collection is ornamental – patterned in colours the creature does not have. This one is painted as the dog actually looks: cream and fawn through the body, a dark brindle mask across the face, pink inside the ears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no zentangle, no paisley and no saturated colour anywhere on the board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat that changes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrnament gives you something to sort by. A patterned piece carries a motif, and the motif tells you roughly where it belongs. Here there is no motif at all, only fur shading gradually from cream through fawn into brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes 120 pieces harder than 120 ornamental ones, not easier. The board looks simple and does not behave that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the landmarks are\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe face. The dark mask, the black nose and the eyes are the only high-contrast features, and they occupy perhaps a fifth of the surface. Everything else is graded fur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuild the head first, then the ears, then work back along the body, and expect the haunch to be slow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA dog's own things\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figural pieces are not wildlife. Other dogs of different breeds, a bone, a kennel – the objects that belong to a dog's life rather than to a landscape. Our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/faithful-dog-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eFaithful Dog\u003c\/a\u003e plays the same trick, and the two dogs are the only designs we cut whose pieces come from a pet's daily life rather than from the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt makes this the design to buy for someone who has a dog rather than for someone who likes the look of one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687149187,"sku":"PC012","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Le-Bouledogue-Fidele-Puzzle-en-bois-8.jpg?v=1780866598"},{"product_id":"planete-marina-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Planet Marina Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAn ocean drawn rather than photographed\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere Planet Terra is a satellite photograph, this one is illustration: shells, fish, starfish, coral and sea plants packed edge to edge across a circular board, with a scalloped red border running round the outside like a shell rim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no negative space. Every square centimetre carries a different creature, drawn in flat colour with hard outlines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy density makes it easier, not harder\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA photograph of open water gives you nothing to sort by. This gives you the opposite problem and the better one: every piece carries a fragment of a distinct object, so a piece can almost always be identified as belonging to a particular shell or fish. The figure pieces double it – fish, seahorses and starfish cut as their own silhouettes, swimming through the pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat slows it down is the sheer variety. There are more separate motifs on this board than on anything else we cut, and finding the one you are holding takes scanning rather than sorting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe largest of the three planets\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 35 cm and 191 pieces it is the biggest, and the scalloped border makes it read as an object rather than as a disc when it is hung.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687181955,"sku":"PC014","price":49.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/La-Planete-Marina-Puzzle-en-bois-3.jpg?v=1780866600"},{"product_id":"florissant-lotus-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Bloomy Lotus Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePattern with no animal in it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lotus built from bands of petals fanning outward from the flower's heart, each band worked in a different motif and colour, with a crown at the top and a pendant drop hanging below. It is the only board in our ornamental range with no creature in it at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe outline follows the flower rather than a circle: petal tips project all the way round, so the finished shape has a scalloped edge rather than a smooth one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMirrored, and repeating\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe board mirrors down its vertical axis, like our animal portraits – every petal on the left has a reversed twin on the right. On top of that, the petals repeat along their bands: two pieces from the same arc carry near-identical ornament and both look correct in either slot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe centre line and the position along the arc are what place a piece; the pattern alone will not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it gets built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe axis first. The crown, the heart and the pendant drop all sit on the centre line and have no mirror twin anywhere, so they can be placed with certainty. Then band by band outward, each arc closing before the next begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eButterflies and leaves are cut into the petals as figure pieces – the garden the lotus grows in, hidden inside the flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat a mandala actually is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cosmogram from Hindu and Buddhist practice: a diagram of the universe organised around a centre, used as an aid to concentration. The adult colouring boom of the 2010s pulled the form into secular use as a relaxation exercise, which is where most people now meet it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis design belongs to that secular reading – it is ornamental rather than devotional, and we would not claim otherwise. If pure rotation around a centre is what you want, our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/mandala-zen-wooden-puzzles\"\u003eround mandala line\u003c\/a\u003e does exactly that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687214723,"sku":"PC008","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Florissant-Lotus-Puzzle-en-Bois-4.jpg?v=1780866602"},{"product_id":"papillon-illusionniste-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Butterfly Illusionist, wooden puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWings that read as lace\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur largest butterfly, and the most open board we cut. The wings are pierced through with gaps so the outline reads as filigree rather than as solid shape, worked in deep red, black and gold, with antennae curling well above the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond the wing edges sit separate pieces: small butterflies, dragonflies and moths, scattered outward. They are part of the composition rather than hidden inside it, which means the finished arrangement is as wide as you choose to make it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy 175 pieces takes longer than 175 pieces should\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe design is mirrored down the centre. Every piece on the left wing has a counterpart on the right, identical in colour and pattern, differing only in which way it curves. They will not fit each other's slot, but nothing in the pile tells you which is which.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pierced gaps compound it: many pieces have holes through them, so the usual trick of matching an edge profile works less often than on a solid board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe body is the only asymmetric part and the place to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOn the wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 36 × 37 cm this needs clear wall on both sides. The scattered outer pieces are the point of the design, and crowding them against a shelf or a frame loses it. It ships in a printed wooden box that stores the pieces between hangings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687247491,"sku":"PC003","price":49.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Papillon-Illusionniste-Puzzle-en-bois-5.jpg?v=1780866603"},{"product_id":"chouette-somptueuse-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Sumptuous Owl Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAn owl in flight, not perched\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWings raised and spread, body facing forward, talons tucked. Every other owl we cut is sitting; this one is caught mid-wingbeat, which changes the silhouette entirely – the wings sweep upward and outward rather than folding down the sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is warm: coral, rose and gold across the wings, with a violet and blue body at the centre. The eyes are pale blue and set in a dark mask, and they are the only cool feature in the middle of the board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo treatments meeting at the shoulder\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wings are drawn as long individual feathers, each one outlined and separately patterned, running outward in ordered rows. The body is the opposite: dense scrollwork with no repeating structure at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat boundary is the most useful line on the board. Pieces sort into “feather” and “not feather” almost at a glance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the feathers fight back\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rows repeat. A feather from the upper left wing carries the same shape and nearly the same colours as one three rows down, and the wings mirror each other on top of that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tail fan at the base is the exception: it curves rather than radiating, and its pieces belong nowhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe forest in the feathers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigure pieces hide across the wings and body: a bear, a fox, a deer, a hare, a llama, a butterfly, a small owl. The same forest our Beautiful Owl carries – apparently our owls keep the same company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eChoosing between our owls\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe cut three. 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The fur is worked in coral, rust and ochre ornament with blue threaded through the ears and ruff, and the two eyes are the strongest colour on it: a clear green that stops you the moment the board is looked at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe muzzle is left pale, its pattern faint, which is unusual here. On most of our portraits the ornament covers everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo quiet areas on a busy board\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pale muzzle and the green eyes are the only places where the pattern rests, and together they make up perhaps a tenth of the surface. Everything else is dense warm ornament with no natural divisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose two areas are where the puzzle is built from. Place them first and the rest is worked outward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eA cat made of cats\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe figural pieces keep to the subject: cats sitting, cats walking, cats curled asleep. Nothing here belongs to another animal – the same device our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/gentle-cat-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eGentle Cat\u003c\/a\u003e uses, though that board lets a few fish in among them; here the cats have the fur to themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are spread through the chest and the flanks rather than clustered, so the board empties gradually as you take them out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe narrow format\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 27 × 17 cm this is the tallest of our frontal portraits relative to its width, because the shoulders taper rather than spreading. It suits a narrow stretch of wall better than the tiger or the dog.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Wooden box","offer_id":47256688754819,"sku":"PC062","price":32.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cardboard box","offer_id":47256688787587,"sku":"PC087","price":24.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/TRN02055.jpg?v=1780866638"},{"product_id":"dauphin-joueur-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Playful Dolphin Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe most stretched board we cut\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA dolphin caught mid-dive, nose down, tail high, drawn in deep blue with turquoise and gold ornament running along the flank. At 38 × 18 cm it is more than twice as long as it is tall, which is the most extreme proportion we cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pose does the work. A dolphin standing still would be a shape; this one is a movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the flank is slow\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe body is one continuous curved surface with the ornament running along it in parallel bands, and those bands repeat their sequence. A piece from behind the head and a piece from ahead of the tail can carry the same three colours in the same order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePosition along the body, not colour, is what places them, which is the same problem our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/blue-whale-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eBlue Whale\u003c\/a\u003e poses and for the same reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe company it keeps\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStars, small fish and a shark are cut into the board as figure pieces – complete silhouettes that lift out on their own. They are the easiest pieces to place and the best ones to hand to whoever is watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe head and the tail flukes. Both have hard outlines and a fixed orientation, and once they are placed the long flank between them is bounded at both ends rather than open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOn the wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe length wants a run of clear wall: above a sofa, a bed or a doorway. Hung in a narrow space the leap has nowhere to go.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Wooden box","offer_id":47256688853123,"sku":"PC056","price":39.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cardboard box","offer_id":47256688885891,"sku":"PC082","price":25.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/TRN01992.jpg?v=1780866638"},{"product_id":"pieuvre-invisible-puzzle-en-bois","title":"The Invisible Octopus Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEight arms, and more edge than anything else we cut\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe octopus holds its head high with all eight arms fanned out below, most of them curling back on themselves, worked in full-spectrum ornament – coral pink, turquoise, gold, violet and green – inside a turquoise outline. A heart is worked into the crown of the head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause every arm has its own outline and most of them coil, this board has more edge relative to its area than anything else we make. Against a patterned wall the shape almost disappears; against a plain one it reads immediately. The real animal would approve – an octopus vanishes at will into whatever it sits on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the difficulty concentrates\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe arms. Each one tapers and curls, so the pieces along them are narrow and long, and a piece from the third arm looks perfectly at home in the sixth arm's gap until the shape refuses it. Colour barely separates them, since the same palette runs the length of every limb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe head is the exception. It carries the densest ornament, the two eyes and the heart, and it is the only part of the board with a fixed orientation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe creatures hidden in the cut\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the pieces are sea creatures in their own right – a seahorse, a dolphin, a turtle, small fish, even an anchor lift out of the board as complete silhouettes. Finding them is the first pleasure of opening the box; fitting the arms around them is the second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it gets built\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHead first, then each arm worked outward from where it meets the body, one at a time rather than in parallel. 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The body is worked in deep red and orange with green foliage at the feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause it is not frontal, it is also not symmetrical, and that changes the puzzle entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eNo mirror image to confuse you\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery other design in this group is built around a centre line, with matching pieces on both sides that look interchangeable. Here nothing repeats. A piece belongs to one place and one place only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes 104 pieces considerably faster than 105 pieces on our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/magic-tiger-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eMagic Tiger\u003c\/a\u003e, and it is worth knowing if the symmetry problem is what puts you off the others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe company it keeps\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigural pieces hide in the body – smaller red pandas among them, with birds and leaves. 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It curls down behind the body in rings of dark and light, and those rings repeat with nothing to distinguish one from the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuild the head and the feet first, where the foliage gives contrast, and close the tail last.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Wooden box","offer_id":47256688984195,"sku":"PC060","price":32.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cardboard box","offer_id":47256689016963,"sku":"PC086","price":24.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/TRN02018.jpg?v=1780866641"},{"product_id":"tigre-captivant-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Magic Tiger Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eOrange against everything else\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tiger faces you straight on, and the palette is the warmest in this portrait series: orange and gold across the whole face, with the stripes drawn as ornamental scrollwork rather than as bands. 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The two green eyes outshine everything; nothing else on the board is as green.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelow them the breast carries a fan of blue and gold feathering that reads almost as a separate object, like a brooch pinned to the bird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSymmetry, and where it breaks\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe layout is mirrored down the centre – ear tufts, wings, fringe all repeat in shape. The colours do not: one wing flares pink, the other gold, so the two halves separate by colour the moment the pieces are tipped out. The blue core is where left and right actually get confused.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe breast fan sits on the centre line, belongs to neither half, and is the place to build from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is cut into it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigural pieces are hidden across the face and the feathering: a bear, a small owl, wolves, a fox, a deer, a hare, a hedgehog, a boar, a llama. 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Eye feathers in green and gold fill the tail; the neck and crest are blue and turquoise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the only design we cut where the animal wraps around itself, and the outline is neither a silhouette nor a disc but something between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe eye feathers are the sorting method\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach one is a self-contained motif – a dark centre ringed in gold and green – and they repeat across the tail at different angles. A piece carrying a whole eye can be placed almost immediately; a piece carrying half of one cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat splits the pile in two, and the halves are what take the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe head and crest. They sit at the top of the spiral, carry the only blue on the board, and fix the direction the tail turns in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe creatures in the feathers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigure pieces hide in the tail and neck – butterflies, small birds, a flamingo among them – each lifting out as a complete silhouette and leaving its outline in the feathers. On a board built of repeating eyes, they are the pieces that place themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits among our birds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong our ornamental birds, only the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/beautiful-owl-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eBeautiful Owl\u003c\/a\u003e carries fewer pieces – this is the gentle end of the bird range. 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At 31 × 23 cm it is wider than the Wild Elephant while carrying fewer pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFlat colour, not gradient\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two ears are worked in solid blocks of green, red, blue, yellow and black, each block filled with a different motif and separated from its neighbour by a hard line. There is no shading anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat changes how it is built. Where the Wild Elephant needs you to check the direction of a paisley curve, this one lets you sort by colour block and place with confidence – which makes it the most approachable of our ornamental portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe trunk is the exception: it runs down the centre in narrow horizontal bands, and those bands repeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe menagerie inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cut hides a full set of figure pieces: a prowling big cat, a bear, a fox, fish, a butterfly, a pineapple, a palm tree. 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The breed is specific enough that the sculpture reads as somebody's dog rather than as a generic one, which is the point – a generic dog would not be worth a hundred and thirty pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFinished\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 15 × 16 × 17 cm it is roughly two thirds of life size. It sits on a shelf or a desk and wants to be seen from the side, where the layer lines describe the profile most clearly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256693178499,"sku":"CWPS02","price":34.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/6_1df27609-c75e-4330-b3fb-63ae721704ed.jpg?v=1780866734"},{"product_id":"puzzle-sculpture-3d-en-carton-chat","title":"3D cardboard puzzle-sculpture Cat","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe one with the sharpest edges\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cat's head and neck, ears up and alert. 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From there the wing feathers work outward: they are large, individually outlined and shaded from dark root to light tip, which makes them among the easiest pieces in the collection to place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe mandala is the slow half. It is symmetrical, so a piece from the lower left has a near-twin on the lower right, and its motifs are softer-edged than the bird's, with colours bleeding into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat people do with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis one gets finished in a single sitting more often than the larger designs, and the reason is structural: the board is compact and the picture divides cleanly into bird and background. Builders separate the two by colour temperature in the first few minutes, cool pieces to one side and warm to the other, and the sort holds all the way through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe projecting wingtips get left until the end. 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The face and ear tufts are warm – orange, ochre, turquoise, worked in tight symmetrical patterning around two pale eyes. The wings are cooler, with feather markings running down each side. The breast is almost black, dense with fine detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReading upward, the piece gets lighter and busier. Reading downward, it gets darker and quieter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSymmetry is the trap\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe owl is mirrored down the centre line, and the wing markings repeat exactly on both sides. A piece from the left wing will sit convincingly in the right wing's gap until you notice the pattern curves the wrong way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe face is the exception. It carries the only asymmetric detail on the board, and it is where to start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSmall companions around the edge\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigural pieces sit outside the outline rather than within it: an eagle, a squirrel, a rabbit, a stag and other small animals scattered around the owl, cut individually. They are placed last and their arrangement is left to you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e147 pieces, on the narrowest board in the range – 33 cm tall by only 17 wide, a strip of wall no other design here fits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe box\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA dark wooden gift box with a sliding lid and cord tie, printed with the finished owl. It stores the pieces afterwards. A printed cardboard box is the lower-priced option.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the owl carries\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIts symbolism genuinely splits: Athena's patient watcher in one tradition, an omen in others. 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Along the outer edge those strands stop being mane: the pieces there are cut as birds, giraffes and small animals, and they scatter outward as if leaving the head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat dissolving edge is the design. Most silhouette puzzles end at a clean outline; this one dissolves into its own figural pieces, and the further out you go the less it looks like a lion at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the difficulty sits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe gradient. Colour runs continuously along the mane from warm to cool, which means a piece can be placed within roughly the right band by its colour and then has to be positioned by shape alone. 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Flowers open along the branch beneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA chameleon that has half-changed colour is the joke of the design, and the warm band in the middle is what your eye lands on first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe pieces leave the board\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLizards, a dragonfly, leaves, flowers and stars are cut as separate figural pieces and scattered beyond the outline – there is even a small monkey. They do not sit inside the animal the way our other designs hide them; they belong outside it, which means the finished composition can be spread as wide as the wall allows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes this the most variable display in the range. No two people arrange it the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it gets slow\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e137 pieces, and the colour transition does most of the work of placing them. 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