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Archie McPhee Puzzle

Photograph taken on Sunday, May 12, 2024 by Henry
Archie McPhee Glow Chamber Puzzle

Archie McPhee Glow Chamber Puzzle

Cathy’s brother Jim gave us this puzzle. We thought it was going to be glow-in-the-dark, but it’s just a regular photo of glow in the dark items. The puzzle itself doesn’t glow, which is a shame because that would have been awesome. Anyway, this was a really hard puzzle. Usually you find areas with patters or colors and you can sort of guess the general area where things go. With this, it was similarly colored items all surrounded by black. We had a lot of the individual items put together but it took quite a bit more work before we were able to start placing them in the overall outline. Looking at the box would definitely have helped and this illustrates why that’s cheating.

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Glow-In-The-Dark Puzzle

Photograph taken on Friday, March 21, 2025 by Henry
Glow-In-The-Dark Puzzle

Glow-In-The-Dark Puzzle

Glow-In-The-Dark Puzzle

Glow-In-The-Dark Puzzle

We’ve continued working on puzzles, doing those given to us by Donna, a family friend. They are mostly 500 piece puzzles and are fairly easy to put together but it’s something to do. We have a card table in our family room with a four foot square board on it. I added molding to the edge which reduces the number of pieces that get knocked onto the floor. It doesn’t prevent that completely and we finished one puzzle and found that a single piece was missing. We looked on the floor but didn’t find it. We left it there for a day or two and Cathy was on the floor stretching when she noticed the piece. I’m not sure how we missed it, but the rug we have seems to camouflage them very well.

While working on this puzzle we noticed that the surface of the pieces was a little rough. It wasn’t until we were done that we found out that it was a glow-in-the-dark puzzle. We put the boxes away while we’re working on them, to make them a little more challenging (and to avoid cheating). I set the camera up on a tripod and took pictures of it both with the lights on (the first image) and then with the lights off. The exposure was 30 seconds at f/4 at ISO 200.

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