Ravensburger

Enchanted Forest
$24.99
This is a nice and attractive game for the family to enjoy. An old review says the trees are wooden, however they are plastic now at least. If they were wooden, the game would be even more beautiful. This is as durable as the average game. The cards are made of cardboard and one of ours was quickly bent in half. The board is carboard too, like the average game. This is a fun game especially when you're looking for something new and like fairy tales and castles.

Earth 540 pc puzzle ball
$44.99
It's a really nice puzzle, I really don't regret buying it. But you should know that it doesn't stay perfectly round. It does stay round, and you can turn and everything, but it's REALLY difficult to put the pieces exactly how they should stay, so all the pieces won't stay even. Also the support was a little bit bigger than it should be, so I had to crook it a little, but it worked fine.

Still, I LOVE puzzles and this was certainly the puzzle I had to have at home.

Ravensburger Puzzle Accessories - Stow and Go
$19.99
The Ravensburger Stow and Go Puzzle Accessories does do exactly what it says on the box - it just doesn't do it well.
The mat is folded inside the box, so when you receive it, it's bumpy and raised. We read the instructions and used it as directed, but it was so uneven it was frustrating to use. In hindsight it would have been a good idea to iron it, but there are no directions in doing so and I was concerned I would burn it based on the type of material it is made from.
There are a few strips of sticky substance on the back covered by a plastic film, and absolutely no related instructions or directions about what it is supposed to be for or how it is used. Now we have not used a puzzle mat before so we are ignorant in this aspect, but isn't that what the instructions are supposed to be for? We assumed it was to hold the puzzle pieces in place, but I was concerned that if we removed the plastic film, and did not complete the part of the puzzle that would sit on top of the sticky strips before we rolled it up, then surely the lint from the mat rolling onto itself would get all over the sticky strips and render them useless anyway?
Sure enough, when we rolled up the puzzle put it away, the puzzle broke inside the mat. When we unrolled it to work on the puzzle further, we had to spend a large amount of time fixing the puzzle and putting pieces back together.
Not what I expected, and probably not worth using next time.

Ravensburger 3000 Piece Puzzle - Oceanic Wonders
$35.00
This is the first one we got that actually kept us busy the whole week instead of just a couple of days!!!

Great, but challenging puzzle!