Review: What's Brewing
| Puzzle | What's Brewing |
|---|---|
| Artist | Betsy Brown |
| Type | Teaser  |
| Catalog Picture |  |
This 2-sword teaser by artist Betsy Brown from 2001 is wonderfully done. There is significantly more contiguous "stuff" that this almost felt initially more like puzzling a traditional. The 130 piece count may help with that feeling. Further the teaser cavity has an extremely tight fit in comparison to a number of the other teasers making this an excellent introduction to teaser puzzling.
The difficulty rating feels just right.
In terms of the imagery, if you like fantasy, wizards, or Sorcerer's Apprentice (Fantasia) type imagery this should resonate quite well with you since the wizard-over-his-cauldron image is well rendered. Steam and ingredients of all sorts are coming in going from this witches brew.
A great puzzle.
Comment
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Comment by Erik on May 2, 2009 at 2:56pm - Dave based on your comments, you'll absolutely LOVE this one, so definitely get in line for it when you finish your queue.
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Comment by David Minton on May 2, 2009 at 2:53pm -
Hi guys! Great review Erik!
I LOVE Betsy's puzzles. I love her artwork, it always seems very "polished" compared with other more "whimsical" illustrators. But I particularly love the extremeley tight fit of the cavity pieces you mentioned. I still find her puzzles like Joyful Toyful amazing the way she gets so many different silhouettes to fit so tightly together. Is she still producing puzzles? I have most of her puzzles, apart from the one-sword ones, and no-one else seems to design teasers with the same tightfit of cavity pieces, or the same polished feel. What's Brewing has been on my radar for a while, but it'll have to wait a little bit longer until I've received English Garden and Those Blooming Cats.
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Comment by Erik on May 1, 2009 at 4:51pm
- That could be interesting, emailing you offline.
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Comment by Bryan on May 1, 2009 at 4:45pm - Great review Erik! I should send you my What's Brewing for you to do as a comparison and see if the puzzle cutter can make a huge difference in the degree of difficulty. I like my puzzles challenging and I liked this one and actually felt the one I own should have been a 3 Sword Teaser as I found it more challenging than the typical Two Sword Teaser puzzle.
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