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If your family has been putting together jigsaw puzzles lately (like so many others!), here’s one to add to your lockdown list: the LEGO Paint Party Puzzle from Chronicle Books. Chronicle Books has a number of LEGO-licensed products, from puzzles to notecards to brick-shaped erasers, with several more on the way this fall (including some minifig puzzles that look fantastic). They sent me a sample of the LEGO Paint Party Puzzle to try out and, uh, I have to confess that I mostly put it together myself while the rest of my family wasn’t paying attention because it was fun to see it come together.
The photograph shows a collection of paint buckets, each filled with a single color of LEGO pieces, along with a few paint brushes and stirring sticks (which have some flat pieces on them to simulate paint). This may be one of the first times I’ve done a puzzle without putting together the border first-there’s a whole lot of light blue along the edges, but I figured that sorting out the pieces by color would let me assemble the buckets more easily.
That’s true to a point: some colors, like the lime green, are pretty easy to spot, and don’t look like anything else in the puzzle. But there are three shades of yellow and two shades of orange, plus two blues that look very close to one another, so some of the color piles got a bit more…
