{"product_id":"oasis-corail-puzzle-en-bois","title":"The Coral Oasis Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA photograph, not an ornament\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA reef scene: a turtle swimming through open water with a big triggerfish patrolling below it, angelfish and a polka-dotted clown triggerfish threading between the coral heads, the whole thing photographed rather than drawn. The board is a rectangle with a scalloped wave edge rather than an animal silhouette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the only photographic board in this collection, and at 200 pieces it shares the top count here with our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/blue-whale-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eBlue Whale\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo zones with different rules\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lower band is coral: dense, high-contrast, every square centimetre carrying a different shape and colour. Those pieces go in quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbove it is open water. It shades from sunlit turquoise near the surface to deeper blue below, with almost nothing crossing it except the turtle and a few fish. That is where the two hundred pieces make themselves felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow people build it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBottom up, which is unusual. The coral is assembled first because it can be, then the turtle and the fish are placed as landmarks in the empty water, and the blue is filled in between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the one board in our range where working from the bottom edge upward is the sensible approach rather than starting from a central feature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMermaids in the water\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe empty blue is not quite empty: mermaids, an octopus, whales, a seahorse and shells are cut into it as figure pieces, complete silhouettes that lift out of the board. In the open water they double as landmarks – each one you place pins down a patch of blue that had nothing else to hold it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe edge\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe scalloped border is cut as a wave, which means the puzzle does have an outer boundary to build from – the only design in this collection that does. It ships in a wooden box with a sliding lid, the pieces bagged in linen inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256687018115,"sku":"PC015","price":49.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/LOasis-Corail-Puzzle-en-bois-8.jpg?v=1780866593","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/the-coral-oasis-wooden-puzzle","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}