Category: 500 Piece Puzzles
Forget your queen, this is the cat’s gambit.
This is a depiction of cats engaging in a high-stakes, underground chess tournament. It’s got balloons, lasers, fish martinis, and a lot of knocked over pawns. As a bonus, there are thirteen Exploding Kittens characters hidden within this puzzle. Compare this puzzle to your copy of the Exploding Kittens card game to try and find them all.
The pieces fit together snugly, no frayed edges, and the image quality is sharp enough to actually read the expression on the cat's face mid-paw-swat. Took me two evenings, and I'm still finding new details like the knocked-over pawns tucked near the laser beam. A perfect mix of silly and challengin
I kept giggling at the fish martinis and the knocked-over pawns while sorting pieces, and the image is so busy and quirky that even the 500 count felt like a fun challenge. The cardboard is sturdy enough for repeated assembly, and I’ve already done it twice this week just to spot all the cat express
The whimsical details are what sold me—balloons and fish martinis next to a serious chess face is pure genius. Pieces fit snugly and the image stayed crisp and sharp the whole time I assembled it. Such a fun, quirky puzzle that kept me grinning for two evenings.
