Ravensburger Gradient Cascade Puzzle – 1000 Piece Challenge | Unique Softclick Technology | Artistic Design by Karen Kavett and Wes Cockx | Engaging Activity for Adults

This was my first puzzle inside a puzzle and it took me a bit to learn how to do it. Once I figured it out, it was fun and challenging. Ravensberger quality can't be beat.

The quality is of course great given how it’s Ravensburger. The puzzle piece cut outs function as a mini puzzle in themselves. The gradient makes the puzzle not frustrating to do due to there not being large single color areas to put together. Karen really made a fantastic puzzle!

Karen has shone a light on the untapped creative potential of puzzle design. This is one of the best puzzles I've ever done. It's a real puzzler's puzzle, a unique and satisfying experience for people who have solved them all. There are lots of ways to analyze the pieces and figure out where they go. It's "meta puzzle" cut is way more interesting than a ribbon cut and more enjoyably predictable than a random cut. There are tons of "edge" pieces--everyone loves edge pieces! As a result, the puzzle has a lot of viable strategies, so however you solve it, you feel like it's "your" solution. There are no intricate details, so you don't need to refer to the box image as you go, which adds another layer of satisfaction as you organically figure out where the big pieces and color blocks belonged. (I actually did it upside down and never noticed!) I want more like this.

I absolutely loved this puzzle and can see myself putting this one together countless times. It has very uniquely shaped custom pieces, it reminded me of the Magic Puzzle Company puzzles but slightly faster to put together. I was positively surprised by the quality, each of the pieces felt sturdy and there wasn’t a lot of puzzle dust!

This puzzle within a puzzle design is really a unique concept I haven't seen before, Karen Puzzles did a great job coming up with this idea. I love how vibrant the colors are as well. The puzzle wasn't too difficult but it did have an added challenge because of the curvy edge pieces, and the diagonal-cut pieces of the large puzzle-piece sections. Fun to put together.

We bought this for our 6YO, who is a big Karen Puzzles fan. It is a very satisfying puzzle, challenging but never frustrating or annoying. Karen's expertise is on full display, with helpful color contrasts and lines always providing different clues as to where pieces go. The difference between "normal" pieces for the outer part and "skewed" pieces for the mini-puzzles is also a nice touch. Our 6YO loved it, said it was his favorite puzzle hands down!

So fun, took me so much longer than I share to admit but all the different colors and shapes and edges added extra fun.

Quality was great. Puzzle was challenging. Glad I finished it but probably won’t seek out one like this again 😂.