 which one actually is better for your 125? Hey guys! So since my last trip to Dollar Tree, I've been really curious about the sets that I purchased. And I know a lot of you were curious about them as well. So I figured the best thing to do to satisfy our curiosity was to compare two of the sets that I bought. The first one we're gonna do together is the one from Puzzle Bug. And this one is called Fresh Flowers Outside Floreshop. It is 350 pieces and it is 20 inches by 12 inches when it's completed. And this is by Crazy Art. Now this particular puzzle bug is the Deluxe, which is thicker pieces. And this is the first puzzle bug I've ever purchased before. So I'm really curious what this one is gonna be like because the only other ones that I have bought were the art box sets. And this one is called Coffee Every Day. Yeah please. It is also 350 pieces and it is also 20 inches by 12 inches when it's completed. The difference here is that we have art box and puzzle bug. They are both by Crazy Art. But the puzzle bug is the thicker pieces. This is the Deluxe. So is there a humongous difference between these two sets? I don't know. I kind of feel like with the thicker pieces we're probably probably gonna get a better hold with this one. I have tried art box before but I've never tried the smaller count sets. And I'm pretty sure that the piece size is different than what I've worked with before. Now I absolutely love both of these images. I mean with the flower shop you know what I've said before. I know nothing about growing flowers or anything for that matter. So you know if I was that good at that kind of stuff this is gonna be my shop here. And as for the coffee one well you know how I am about coffee. If I don't have my cup of coffee first thing in the morning you know bad things happen. Hit that like button if you're the same way about coffee. And if you're not a coffee fan let me know down below what is your drink of choice. But anyways like I said I feel like these two sets are pretty much of the best ones to do a comparison video with. Now even though I know the overall quality of Dollar Tree puzzles is pretty much garbage. I feel like it's it'll be very interesting to know which one actually is better for your 125. Or does it really matter are they all the same kind of garbage? I don't know. This is gonna be fun to kind of figure out here. Let's open these two up. Let's start comparing these pieces and let's start putting these together. All right so here are the sets. Let's open up puzzle bucks first because I've never opened one of these up. So let's see if I can do this without tearing the box. All right so what I'm seeing here so far is actually very promising. Check out that print here. That's a pretty good solid print. Got some very sharp colors. This is a very very clear looking image. These pieces are definitely thicker. But you know don't get too excited because you know they are thicker pieces but we're not talking about you know high quality thickness here. And of course you know things like this aren't going to be surprising with these kind of sets but that's okay. And of course you do have quite a glossy finish to these. So you know just be aware of that. But overall this is quite impressive. I'll be very curious to see how these fit together and what the hold is like. So you know what let's move this to the side and let's quickly open up the art box set and just quickly compare the two pieces. And let's just pull out one piece. Let's just pick out one piece because knowing me I'm going to end up throwing it in the pile of the other set and then just you know ruining the whole thing. So I'm kind of like pushing on these two edges here and there's definitely a difference in the strength of these pieces. Of course the art box is more flimsy because obviously it is thinner than your puzzle bug sets. Quite honestly just by looking at it you cannot really tell the difference between these. I kind of think they're just about the same thickness but the puzzle bug definitely feels stronger. And I'm not saying puzzle bug is like you know put all your force and be a beast with it and it'll be fine. No obviously but it definitely has way more strength than the art box pieces. We have pretty much the same amount of glare on these pieces and the size is about the same as well. So really the difference I'm seeing so far here is the feel the strength of these pieces. So you know what guys I think we need to get started on puzzle bugs. So let's do that one and then we're going to move on to the art box and then we're gonna do a final comparison and see which one is better for a buck 25. All right guys let's get started. All right so the sorting only took me about 10 minutes so it was pretty easy. It's only 350 pieces so I wasn't surprised it didn't take me that long. So what I did was for the first tray of course were the edges. For this tray here as you can see is mainly the pieces for like the the brickwork here for the third tray. Basically this area here where the blues are. The fourth tray there's kind of a lot of random stuff going on here but it's mainly for like this area here the windows those particular details within the image. The next tray were just kind of like more of a reddish tone pieces so it looks like it could be anything from up here or any bit of the walls. Next tray also had some red to it and it's mostly pieces but like edging from different details within the piece and then for the last tray I did was just pretty much all the flowers and pumpkins and any plant life in the image. So I'm pretty sure this particular tray is gonna need resorting again but we'll get to that later. Let's move on. That went together pretty easily. I must say I'm really liking the feel of these pieces so far. The hold well the fit itself is not that great because it can come apart pretty easily. It's not too bound so far what I noticed and I don't think I was able to do this with my other Dollar Tree sets but for the most part it actually can move around the puzzle table without too much damage happening to it. I spoke to soon huh. Anyways let's continue. So after that I just grabbed whichever tray was closest to me and started puzzling away. I laid the path first then worked my way into my shop and then just continued to piece away any sections that I felt I could quickly make out a first glance from the trays. I initially thought that all the flowers would be the hardest but honestly it really wasn't too bad. I quickly sorted the different flowers into little piles and pieced it from there. Really this was not a difficult image to complete. It did have some areas like the flowers that did throw in that challenge to it but again it was pretty easy and most importantly I had a lot of fun with this one. This puzzle took me about two hours to complete but I actually didn't stop there that night. I moved right on to the next one and as much as I wanted to have coffee whilst completing this puzzle I didn't because it was late at night and I had to work the next morning. All right now I'm going to try to work on the same puzzle table with the first puzzle on it still so we'll see we'll see how this works out but in terms of sorting I'm going to be honest whenever it comes to like these kinds of designs on puzzles I am terrible when it comes to sorting. I don't know what it is I guess my brain just can't handle the amount of stuff going on here and I just don't even know where to start in terms of sorting but here's what I did so far. I kind of just broke it up into a bunch of little piles that had like any kind of similar color tones so then as you can see here we have this kind of style going on here we have the dark browns and white lettering here I mean I don't even know how I can explain this to you but I'm sure you can kind of see and just get an idea of what I did here just by looking at the color and the detail within these pieces. I did get a tray set on the side with the edges so that's good but anyways I kind of feel like this will give me a good head start anyways on getting this puzzle going so let's um put these on trays and let's get started. All right so that wasn't too bad edges were pretty easy overall and I've been able to move this around my table you know very very slowly and carefully and there aren't too many casualties which is also another plus but still you gotta be delicate with this one anyways let's move on to the the hard stuff which is to me pretty much the rest of it so let's go. And I don't really know why I tend to feel like these kinds of images will get the best of me it's mostly wording and I'm sure that's commonly fairly simple to put together is it I don't know but anyways I couldn't help but keep thinking about my last experience with a Dollar Tree art box and that one was a 500 count and those pieces were so light and flimsy that I was afraid to even breathe too hard on it because I thought they would just blow across the table the pieces in this 350 count set were totally different they had more substance to them if if that makes sense and I knew that if I suddenly had to sneeze it would be okay and what was also surprising was that none of my pieces were damaged that was cool. So I guess my sorting wasn't that bad because I seem to be getting through it pretty darn quick now I'm sure as you can see in the camera there is quite a bit of glare with both of these puzzles if that light source is a little too close to the puzzle or on top of it honestly I find it best to work on puzzles in the natural light because this glare situation drives me nuts but anyways we're almost done here so you know what let's continue with this. This puzzle took me about one hour and 15 minutes yeah I don't know what I was so worried about with this image it was easy it was fun and I loved it and I will display this puzzle somewhere in my house it's so cool okay I'm actually quite shocked because I kind of expected something totally different when it came to these Dollar Tree sets and that's mainly because you know I've done some of them before I remember what the others were like but this this was this was different and the more I stare at them the more I can't believe how different this experience has been now I'm not saying that these sets were absolutely perfect but for the price that you pay I kind of almost feel like they are I felt just such a huge difference with not only with the way they felt but the way they looked because you have that really nice clear print and they're not dull looking they're sharp and again the fit isn't like a very tight fit they do slide nicely into each other but the hold is not like super solid but there were many many instances where I could hold up small sections together and these aren't boring p-shapes you actually get about I believe it's four or five different shapes here so it's fun now I'm starting to wonder because these particular sets were 350 piece counts now I've only ever done the 500 count of the art box but now I'm starting to wonder if there is actually a difference in terms of the puzzle count that you get versus the quality is it like you know the lower the count the better the quality of the pieces and then the higher the count the less better the quality is is that kind of the tradeoff here that you're that you get actually now that I'm thinking about it I want to open up very quickly this is just an experiment let's open up my previous 500 piece art box set that I did and then I do have one of the new 500 art box sets let me go pull one so in here I have the art box set that I did previously and I kind of want to see wow I'm already seeing guys a huge difference here so this is the piece from the 500 count art box set that I did previously and this is a humongous difference compared to the 350 piece art box set but I do have the more recent uh more recently produced sets from art box and I kind of want to see if this has changed as well and so far from what I'm seeing just by opening this the piece size is the same as the previous set but I want to see what these feel like all right I think we solved the mystery here so it's true the higher the piece count you get from the dollar tree sets the lesser the quality is so really when you're trying to decide what to get from dollar tree in terms of puzzle sets it really depends on what you want to get out of your puzzle is it the satisfaction of putting a particular image together are you looking for you know a good challenge in terms of a higher piece count or do you care more about the the overall quality and overall experience of putting the image together I personally prefer the overall quality and experience from the 350 count sets and I'm not saying that I'm not looking forward to putting this pancake one together because you know this is the other one that I really gotta get hanging up on my wall I mean if I can actually get it to hang up on my wall I could probably not but you know I'm gonna try but there is one thing that I haven't checked yet with these two sets and I think we need to do that together real quick so let's see this all right let's give this a try so the first one I want to pull here is the puzzle bug 350 piece set okay this might go terribly wrong but let's let's just do it let's see here oh boy not bad all right that was oh geez well I almost made it this doesn't count this was my fault this right here this one I'm most worried about because I really don't want to damage this one because this is the image that I want to hang up somewhere so let's see if we can do this without destroying it well look at that guys well that was surprising I must say I am really impressed and I must say I highly recommend you try either the art box or the puzzle box sets from Dollar Tree because really you're getting pretty much the same experience with both of these sets I absolutely love these I will definitely be picking up more of the 350 piece count sets and if any of you guys have tried any of these two particular brands from Dollar Tree let me know down below what have your experiences been like and what are your overall thoughts in general about them and I'm pretty sure very soon I'm gonna be coming out with the other Dollar Tree puzzle reviews because I do have those premium sets from there and I'm curious to see what those are like compared to the other ones so if you're new here and want to check out what I think to those Dollar Tree sets be sure to subscribe and if you're looking to make some new puzzle friends you can click on the link down below to join my puzzling community well guys thank you for watching hope all is well and I will see you in the next one