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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey I made some more puzzles! 16 of them for this month! They are now available here: chrisyates.net/collections/...

A hand-cut and hand-painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting an abstraction of a southwestern US slot canyon

A hand-cut and hand-painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a whimsical river house scene

A hand-cut and hand-painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting an abstraction of a flower bloom

A hand-cut and hand-painted 3-level wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting an abstraction of a waterfall

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been working some more on my Montana Lego topography model and even as someone who specializes in fine and tedious work this one is a little ridiculous, and I haven't even gotten to the tough parts.

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"In The Air", 1995. Having fun at boarding school and one of my favorite shots. This guy is now a brain surgeon!

A scan of a darkroom-produced photo of a person achieving a little hang time after a stair run, on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall in 1995.

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why do I keep making things? Because I really enjoy making things. It takes a lot of patience and practice to make good things, but that work and the process are often even more rewarding than the finished thing. Shortcuts to instant “creativity” aren’t ever going to replace the experience of making

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More big "round number" puzzles from over the years! Here's Bafflers #2000 "Temple At The End Of The World", #3000 "Compass Rose", #4000 "Calm Amidst Chaos" and #5000 "A Stitch In The Universe"

A photo of a hand cut and painted multi-level wooden jigsaw puzzle that is rather complicated and large with lots of geometric cutaways and spindles on the substantial base structure. It is painted entirely monochromatic for some reason or another

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lichen, algae, funghi ‘Plants and how they Live’ (1965) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

An illustration from the book showing different sorts of funghi growing at the base of a large tree in autumn

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Winsor McCay, from the comic strip“Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” New York Herald, 1913.

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For some reason Past Chris scribbled “giraffes doing yoga” on the idea list and now Present Chris is dealing with the ramifications

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got almost done with a cute puzzle template and then had a panicked thought - what if giraffes don’t have knees??! (spoiler: they do, but they are weird knees)

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nicholas Krushenick, The Red Baron, January 1967 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More big "round number" puzzles from over the years! Here's Bafflers #2000 "Temple At The End Of The World", #3000 "Compass Rose", #4000 "Calm Amidst Chaos" and #5000 "A Stitch In The Universe"

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw Maria Bamford last night in Bozeman, she is a treasure! Here is myself and my sister afterwards with the furballs

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026

Banff Meatateria Fred Herzog, 1955 www.crestonmuseum.ca/a-closer-loo...

snowy street scene, parked cars out side a row of shops, a large mountain in the background. It still looks like this today

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here are some ghost and slug wooden puzzles I have recently made with my own hands! They are lonely and need nice loving homes. The adoption center is located here: chrisyates.net

A photo of a hand painted and cut wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a ghost

A photo of a hand painted and cut wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a slug

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 23/09/2026

40 years ago tonight, ALF premiered on TV. Happy 40th Birthday, Alf. I hope all the cats in Melmac Heaven are hot n' spicy, just how you like 'em.

Panel 1: ET's Asogian starship landing on a strange planet

Panel 2: ET walks down the ramp, smiling, ready to get his botany on

Panel 3: ET sees a bunch of ALFs boiling a cat. This is Melmac

Panel 4: ET immediately walks back up ramp, his little buns showing

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 21/09/2026

excited to share this illustration i did for 3 Oceans Puzzle Co.! i don’t do a lot of client work anymore, but who am i to resist puffins and a cute little newfie fishing village? you can get this as a really cool wooden puzzle on their site, and i have prints available too! (links below) #art

a fun colourful and textured illustration of one puffin bringing a beakful of fish to three other puffins on a cliff near a brightly-coloured fishing village on the atlantic ocean. humpback whales breach in the background near an iceberg, and a lighthouse shines through the fog. distant seagulls play among the clouds

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looks great! I saw someone posting about this in the wooden puzzle FB group I help run too, hope it does well! :)

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A few more little places I made at RISD 1998-2000-ish

A small wooden model of a cabin that happens to have a rocket housed in it

A small wooden model of some stairs, platforms, doorways, driftwood and a crab claw

A couple small sculpey, plexiglass and metal sculptures in front of the galaxy that is the Metcalf building's window scum

A couple small wooden sculptures depicting decaying castles and towers.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Couple more old ones #batmanday

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I honestly love your style and especially embracing the duo-tone look on this, it has so much said without any dialogue, and I'm sure you'd rock a sci-fi comic 200%

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Ian Gaston Photography @iangaston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Rocks within rocks

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Boum @boum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Being a cartoonist sometimes implies taking time off your graphic novel just so you can draw something else for once. Retro sci-fi/cassette futurism, especially of the anime kind, is very nostalgic to me.

An illustration all in purples and yellows. A woman in mechanic attire is sitting inside a capsule-style bedroom, lit by the sun through a small window. She's having dumplings. The setting is retro sci-fi or cassette futurism, with lots of pipes and analog screens decorating the surroundings. The illustration is very cluttered visually.

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Somebody used to blare it in my freshman dorm all the time for some reason, and 25 years later while I was listening to the documentary I was like "even if they asked him about Boogie In The Butt he'll make sure they edit it out" haha

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Finally watched the Eddie Murphy doc, it's fine, but they really dodged the big question about his feelings about his 1982 hit single "Boogie In Your Butt" and its lasting cultural ramifications www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOgX...

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Eddie Murphy - Boogie in Your Butt

YouTube video by Brian Pearson

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Michael Graves @mjgraves.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd very much like to see @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social appear as guests on The Muppet Show. And Beaker should try out for the band!

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every so often I think about the crappy house I rented in West Denver in '02, solely because the address was 1420 Yates Street. The plumbing was super janky, but when you flushed the toilet it sounded almost exactly like the first two seconds of the orchestra stab of the ST:TNG theme. Good times.

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Haha, well done - just using random plates to build up the volume

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Meanwhile in the Lego room, a small topographic model of Montana is underway and as I only work on it for a half-dozen hours each week, it will probably take some time to finish, but should be an interesting study to see if I actually want to make a larger version!

Work in progress of a topographic model of Montana made in Lego

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just posted September's Baffler batch! You can check 'em out here: chrisyates.net

A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting an angular mandala pattern

A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting an abstracted landscape

A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting an abstracted harp

A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting an curvy mandala pattern

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes, it is and I'm just viewing this from afar - thanks for the clarification!

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sometimes, depending on the project! I'm currently booked through winter 27, minimum price is $150, and I do not make pet portrait puzzles. If you're interested, you can email me at superyates (a) gmail (dot) com and we can talk further :)

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And to be clear, I understand and support the striking union workers at the convention center. I just think it is unfair to peg blame on the hardworking SPX folks who literally will go bankrupt and defunct if they moved the show

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oof, I really feel bad for the SPX organizers - they are stuck between a hard place & a harder place in this situation, which is a completely external issue beyond their control. It is mind-bogglingly complicated to put together a convention of this complexity on its own in the best of circumstances

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just posted September's Baffler batch! You can check 'em out here: chrisyates.net

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Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

J. Carlos (José Carlos, 1884-1950)

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Sitting And Thinking Bear Sits and Thinks at Rawson Lake Jason Carter ~ Cree 2026

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Baffler template based on Stetind, the national mountain of Norway. I took a little artistic license on this one.

A hand-drawn line drawing of Norway's Stetind Mountain, digitally painted in a blocky fashion like some crazy puzzlemaker is going to use this as a template to make yet more art.

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

put the comma between the knucks

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)" - Cop Shoot Cop, still holds up 30 years later - pls play at my funeral www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJPT...

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Cop Shoot Cop -- Everybody Loves You

YouTube video by CruentaVoluptas

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Chris Yates @superyates.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hello! I know it's been awhile since I've had an online puzzle release, but I've got a delightful dozen ready for you in a week, on Monday Sept. 7, at 9am MDT. And there's a bunch more fun ones in the pipeline, believe you me!

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