Every review here is a puzzle I built myself, start to finish, over however many hours it asked for. A puzzle arriving in the post means I get to build something that would not otherwise have made it to my table, and that is a genuinely good thing for a site this young.
That goes for brands and for everyone else equally. If you make puzzles, I would like to build one. If you are not a brand at all and there is a puzzle you love, or one you were given and know you will never get to, I would like to build that too. Watching a puzzle you picked come together over six hours is a decent reason on its own.
Write to me before you ship anything. Tell me the puzzle, the piece count, and what it is printed on. I will come back to you quickly either way, and if it is not one I can take on I will say so rather than leave you waiting.
Once I say yes, I build it, score it, and publish. That takes roughly two to three weeks from the puzzle arriving. If something goes wrong and I cannot finish the build, I will tell you rather than publish half a review. A missing piece is not that. Every review records whether anything was missing or duplicated, so a short box gets reported rather than quietly held against anyone.
There are two ways this can go, and you pick which when we agree it.
A review and a timelapse. That means:
- A written review of the whole build, and a Peace Score out of 100 with all6 sub scores published beside it rather than rolled into one number.
- A full build timelapse on YouTube, published the same day as the review, so you can watch the whole thing come together.
- A permanent page with the spec sheet: piece count, cut, finished size, build time, reference poster, and how the pieces actually felt in the hand.
The 6 criteria are Trust, The Click, Flow, In the Hand, Print, The Box. What each one asks, and how they are weighted, is on the Peace Score page.
Or just the timelapse. If you would rather watch the puzzle built and leave it at that, say so and there is no review and no score. Wanting to see a puzzle come together is reason enough to send one, and not everybody wants a thing they love graded out of 100.
Whichever you choose is settled before I open the box, and it does not move afterwards. A review is never dropped because of how it scored.
A say in how it turns out. If you asked for a review, I do not send it over before it publishes, I do not share a score early, and I do not change either afterwards. If a puzzle scores badly, that goes up too.
None of that is caution about you. It is the only thing that makes a good score worth anything to the person reading it, and it means that when a puzzle does well, nobody has to wonder why.
If you are a brand, the review says you sent it, above the score. The standing version is on the disclosures page.
Puzzles are not returned.
Tell me what you have. I read everything.