Aurora – 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle (Cobble Hill)

A cabin glows at the water’s edge while the sky above puts on a proper show. The aurora doesn’t just streak across the night here. It’s been drawn as a shoal of ghostly fish and birds swimming through green and violet ribbons, with a full moon caught inside a ring of teal light like a portal.

It’s a puzzle of two halves, really. The lower third is calmer work: dark pine forest, a lake, jagged mountain peaks and a firelit cabin window to anchor yourself with. The sky is where it gets properly tricky, all those overlapping shades of turquoise, lilac and jade blending into one another with the animal shapes only half-visible until you’ve got a good run of pieces down.

Worth doing somewhere you can leave it out for a few days, since the poster included makes it easy to check your progress against the full picture as you go.