Dalek Blueprints

Dalek Blueprints

Culturenik

1000 pieces

27" x 20"

purchased new ($17) from ebay

Difficulty level: First 800 pieces were easy; last 200 were moderately difficult.

I'm a big Doctor Who fan, and this puzzle looked tough (it reminds me of a 6x smaller and 100x easier version of this puzzle, which is tough to find and expensive when you do). The cut is really nice--it's more of a Springbok cut with its huge variety of pieces, rather than the standard "two holes, two pegs" that make up most puzzles.

The first thing I did was to separate the pieces into four categories: edges, lettering/numbers, pieces that are solid blue, and everything else. The border and lettering were first, naturally:

Next I focused on getting the two Daleks together:

The I filled out all the pieces that had any sort of line or marking on them . . .

. . . leaving just the solid blue to go.

And then it's done. Fun, quick, moderately challenging puzzle.