 Well that was very very dumb of me. Hey guys! So I want to go back to a wooden puzzle. So far I've tried sets from Teemu, I've tried one from Liberty Puzzles, and the wooden puzzle that I'm going to be working on today is from Wentworth. And one of you guys actually sent this to me. So thank you Diane. And this one is called Midwinter. The artist is Joe Perry, and it is 500 pieces. And when it's completed it's 420 millimeters by 420 millimeters. I'm terrible with measurements so I'm really gonna have to see what this is in inches so that I can get a better idea. But anyways Wentworth is a company in Great Britain and has been producing puzzles since 1991. They are made out of premium quality wood from forests that are sustainably managed and the box is made from recycled materials. They're hand designed laser cut pieces and what's also really exciting is that it includes whimsy pieces in it which I absolutely love. Now we got ourselves a wintery scene here which is really quite exciting because today just so happened to be the first day we got some actual snow outside. So so this is absolutely perfect but this is a beautiful winter scenery here. You got my house in the background. I made sure the lights were off this time because you know I was going away for a little while. I love the use of the blue tones in this image. I like how they threw in some extra pops of color with the plant life and the flowers. Are those flowers? I don't know what those are. But anyways it's absolutely beautiful. Now hit the like button if you're a fan of Wentworth puzzles. And let me know down below how do you compare it to other very well known wooden puzzle brands out there. I'm really looking forward to trying this one out because I had a really great experience with the Liberty puzzle and I'm very curious how this is going to compare to that one. They both have the crazy pieces which is like one of the things I'm most excited about. I find them to be so much fun to put together. But in terms of overall quality and the fit and the hold I'm really I'm really wondering how it's going to compare to Liberty puzzles. But anyways we're never going to find out until I finally open it right? So you know what? Let's get busy. All right let's get this one opened up. Now this comes in a very nice drawstring bag. That's very fancy. What else do we have here? We have a couple of inserts here talking about making personalized puzzles and talks a little bit more on the other side about Wentworth. Put that on the side with this here. Oh they increase the thickness from three to four millimeters without increasing the price. Well you don't hear that every day do you? Usually things just get more expensive but it says not all of them. I guess they're still in the process of increasing the puzzle thickness. So anyways we'll just put that on the side here. Actually let's put it back in the box because I want to open up these pieces. Very pretty. All right. Oh look our first little whimsy here. I love the whimsy's. These are so much fun. I must say though it does look like it is going to be quite a bit of a challenge because we got a lot of the same color tones and what not going on here. So I'm curious. Oh look and we also got our tip more traditional looking shapes here as well which is fun. Got ourselves a nice variety of pea shapes. Oh this is too exciting and look at this thickness here. Now I do want to do a quick comparison later on the thickness between Wentworth and Liberty puzzles. I wonder if there's much difference between the two but either way the print on these pieces look pretty darn good. Colors look very true to the image on the box. They're very vibrant. We do have a bit of gloss here as you can see so I'll be curious how much that's going to affect me during the completion process. I must say these have such a nice smell to them. I feel like I'm in the forest but as I said before I'm very curious what the fit is going to be like on these pieces and whether or not this is going to hold well together but we shall see right guys so you know what. Enough chatting here about this. Let's move on to the fun stuff. Let's put this together. All right so the sorting was a little bit challenging. I didn't really know what to do at first in terms of grouping but here's what I did. So of course we have our edge pieces or at least what I believe to be edge pieces because some of them were a little tricky to figure out. Next we have pieces that have mainly this darkish blue tone to it and some of these do have like some white and some other features to it but for the most part you can tell that this is all the same bluish tone and I kind of did that with the rest of them. They all follow like a similar tone to them. This one is a slightly lighter blue tone with some white and some green in there. Oh these I meant to put these somewhere else which is a small pile that I have set aside for anything that had the house detail or the birds. This is a more of a bluey green tone and again there's some features in them as well like white and other things to it. Next tray we have I really don't know how to describe this but it's mainly white. These pieces don't have much detail in them kind of like almost plain but but not none of these pieces were really plain but that's that one. Next tray we have white pieces with black features and we have red feature in them here and then the last tray that I have here we kind of have like this pattern going on kind of like a fading between two or three different color tones. I don't know if that makes any sense but I'm sure you just by looking at the trays you can kind of get an idea of what I was trying to do I hope. So this was a little challenging because one this is the biggest wooden puzzle set I've ever worked on and secondly the nature of this artwork is is difficult to kind of figure out how to go about sorting it but anyways let's see if this works out for me. So before attacking this puzzle I went on to Wentworth's website to do a little window shopping and I must say they have a fantastic selection. They have different puzzle shapes, image themes and a pretty large range of piece counts. They go from 15 pieces all the way to 1500 count sets which is pretty awesome but I must say those prices were a little scary. 500 count sets averaged at 104 dollars and if you want to go super crazy and get a 1000 or even a 1500 count set then you're talking about shelling out between 185 to over 300 dollars. Yikes. Unless you have bottomless pockets this is something you'd really have to save up for quite a while if there's a set you just can't back away from but anyways after regaining my composure from that sticker shock I went on to getting the edges done because quite honestly I didn't know what else to start with. There was really no other main feature in this image that I thought I could attack first and not surprisingly I gave up on the edges and started piecing together some of the flowers that stood out to me the most then tried filling in the gaps from there. Let's say my sorting wasn't too bad so we've got just about half of the puzzle done at this point and I must say this is so much fun. We're kind of getting down to the more challenging areas so we have here like mostly the blues that are just playing with not much going on in them. We have some of these here which I think are going to be pretty easy to get in but again more blues here. These are more the lighter ones and yeah we've got a lot of the same thing going on here so let's see how much longer this is going to take me. We're almost done so that's good at least. Even though we have a lot of details and kind of the same things going on here with all the little stems it was still pretty easy for the most part. These areas here were very easy to piece together and there's something just so satisfying about putting the whimsies in place. Anyways let's continue. Well that was very very dumb of me. I kind of tried shuffling this around and I got a little too beastly and kind of destroyed most of it but everything still seems to be in the same spot so I'm just gonna pop these all back in. And try not to do that nonsense again. It was not the puzzle's fault I promise you. These pieces do have a good hold and you are able to easily slide sections across your surface without any serious casualties. Just don't put beastly force on two opposite sides of the puzzle at the same time unless you want it to explode in the center. I wish I caught it on camera but anyways I just loved how these pieces just pieced together. There's no snapping of course because the fit is perfection. It's laser cut so it's clean and ultra smooth. They pretty much fell into each other but back to the process. I felt like I was getting through the first half of this puzzle in pretty good time but once I finished planting all my flowers and building my house I started reaching that point where I was like oh my god help me. Alright I'm stumped here so we're getting towards the top of this puzzle now and I've got a lot of the same thing going on in just about all these trays except this one. I pretty much know what this is but I got like a ton of branches blues and that's about it. This sky this sky it's just it's driving me nuts but anyways I'm doing my best. I'm trying to piece the branches together as best I can. I got some of these little skinny trees out of the way. I just gotta get this center bit here which I don't think should be hard. I don't know I feel like I should have been done with this puzzle by now but anyways um let's just let's just keep going. And you really do get a great feeling of accomplishment when working on puzzles with these kinds of crazy shapes. I don't know at least I do. I feel like I've set this with every wooden puzzle that I've reviewed here but if you're on the fence about trying something like this I highly encourage you to give a shot. Go with something small to get your feet wet something inexpensive like those Timu sets that I mentioned before. And if you haven't seen that video I'll leave a link for it down below. These cans seem pretty intimidating so find an image that you know will motivate you to get it done. Like any other puzzle you'll come across areas that you'll fly through and that'll make you feel good about your puzzling skills and then you'll have those wild challenging areas that'll make you wonder why you started this in the first place. I promise you it's fun. This puzzle took me about five and a half hours to complete. The top half of the puzzle took me the longest but anyways what do I think to my first experience with Wentworth puzzles? I must say it's funny to me how before all this I was quite terrified of wooden puzzles and now that I've gone through three different brands I I don't know why I was in the first place. I don't know if it's the Whimsies or what but you know what let's get on with this. One thing that I absolutely loved with Wentworth and I don't know if this is the case with all of their puzzle sets but this particular one had such a wonderful variety of piece shapes. You had your more traditionally shaped pieces you had some crazy looking ones and of course the Whimsie pieces which I must say every time I put one of those pieces in it there was something so satisfying about it but anyways the print on these pieces is fantastic the colors are sharp they're vibrant and very true to the colors on the box image probably even better and I really didn't have any issues with the glossy coating on these pieces and I don't know if that was because of the lighting in my room at the time or you know just the angle I had my puzzle positioned in I don't know but I honestly didn't have any major issues with it. Now these are laser cut pieces so you get a really nice clean cut and with that you get a very smooth fit these pieces just kind of just glided into each other. Now in terms of the hold it obviously held on much better than the T move sets and I guess that's very much because of the piece shapes that you're dealing with these are these are more interlocking pieces. Now do they hold to a point where you can pick up sections and move them around? Yes and no it is possible if you're holding about three or four pieces together and again that's depending on what piece shapes they are but other than that if you try picking it up it's just gonna fall apart because these pieces are heavy and in regards to the fit as I said they glide right into each other it's not like they have any grip or snugness to each other but you can glide these across your puzzle table and not have any issues. Obviously you don't want to get into beast mode when you do that like you know I did earlier where I kind of destroyed most of the puzzle you still have to be on the more gentle side with this but again super satisfying to put together. In regards to the thickness I did do a comparison with Liberty puzzles and Liberty puzzles just so happens to be a little bit on the thicker side now does that affect the overall fit hold and experience of the puzzle? I don't think it does at least not to me I didn't feel like you know there was any big difference between the two in terms of piecing it together you know they're both still on the thick side so you're gonna get pretty much the same experience with both of them so overall in the end another fantastic wooden puzzle brand I absolutely loved everything about it even the smell it smells great is that strange? The real question is would I pay the price and as I showed you earlier the prices are they're they're quite interesting you pay a pretty penny for these sets but like what I said with Liberty puzzles I feel like it's worth the price if you want to treat yourself to something special but if you have that kind of money you know hanging around go nuts for me I would need to find an image that I just I just can't resist in order to make myself spend that kind of money because at the end of the day I still think it's worth it the quality is there and the experience as well these these are so much fun Wentworth is definitely the UK's Liberty puzzles if that makes sense does that make sense but anyways I hope you know what I mean by that in other words they're both pretty much the same you get a great quality wooden puzzle they both have whimsy's and a great variety of pea shapes the print the cut the fit they're pretty much on the same level I guess is just a case of which one has the images that you prefer so if you want to look more into Wentworth puzzles and if you want to check out what selection they have what's great is that they do ship worldwide so I'm gonna leave their website down below so that you can check it out and if any of you have tried any sets from this brand please let me know down below what have your experiences been like and also let me know if there's other wooden puzzle brands out there that you'd like for me to check out I'm pretty sure there are tons of other brands out there that I have no clue about I mean there's lots of things I have no clue about but anyways thank you again Diane for sending me this awesome set I hope you're all enjoying the holiday season and that you finished your Christmas shopping I'm still working on it thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one