Johnny Carson had the Great Karnak and Whitman had… KARNAN? Who in the great wide world of puzzles is Karnan? We’ll get to that a little later!

First, let’s focus on the these wonderful Disney Character Wooden Puzzles by (yup) KARNAN:

I found two examples of these wooden puzzles for just a buck a piece. They are advertised as a ‘jigsaw puzzle cassetete‘ which I’m going to just assume is referring to the box. The scenes are reminiscent of the Carl Barks comics with characters mostly associated with his work. We have a farm scene and a mountaineering scene, both featuring Donald Duck’s nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

While most puzzles are made of cardboard, these pieces are actually made of wood. This would obviously make them more durable but I wonder why a company would invest in the added expense when most kids would be losing pieces anyway.

Now what about that Swedish company named KARNAN? Nothing. That’s about all we know, other than they seem to have stopped producing products sometime in the 1970s if the examples of IPs they sold are any indication. I did find out that there should be two dots over the first ‘a’. And now you know!

The wooden pieces would be harder for young children to damage. But again, most children would likely lose one or more pieces relatively soon after receiving the puzzle, so I’m not sure durability is a great selling point here. Especially if it increased the cost of the puzzles over similar cardboard ones.

For more puzzles, please click this link. There you will find a puzzle with a unique feature along with more links to other puzzles in my collection.