Armchair Iceland
Vegout Voyage
Katharina Huang (2025)
ISBN: 979-8992761917
Reviewed by Diana Coyle for Reader Views (09/2025)
For all puzzle lovers out there, there is a new type of puzzle book that you might find intriguing to challenge yourself with in Armchair Iceland by Katharina Huang. This puzzle book is the next level of puzzle books that will have you begging for more. The author has creatively taken classic puzzles that puzzle enthusiasts love and added the twist that the entire book is themed to a specific travel location. For this book, she has chosen Iceland. You will find all the classic puzzles, such as crosswords, trivia, connect the dots, mazes, sudoku, and so much more. Plus, she included two extracurricular activities to promote the puzzlers to get up and move about for better health.
This reviewer has never seen anything like this puzzle creation. I absolutely love this whole concept and truly hope that Huang will come up with many more locations in her Armchair series. There are so many different puzzles to solve, and she keeps the challenges flowing at a nice pace. What she ingeniously added was that you have to use the internet to answer the puzzles, which is where her creativity really shines through in this unique puzzle book. She will give you coordinates that you plug into Google Earth and once you hit the location you need, you start answering puzzle questions to move onto the next puzzle.
There are so many variations of puzzles, from searching for specific images on the web to doing crossword puzzles. You can color in the flag of Iceland while answering True and False questions about the country. You can do word searches and mazes, to name just a few puzzling types. There is a little something for every puzzler’s needs. Plus, it includes learning about Iceland while virtually visiting the location online. Every puzzle is creatively designed to teach you about different locations throughout Iceland, bringing you right into the heart of the country’s tourist attractions.
Vegout Voyage was created by survey data scientist Katharina Huang. Her obsession with puzzles turned into a curated guide of travel adventures wrapped around varying puzzle types. Because of her extensive life experience in the United States, Germany, Taiwan, Uganda, and Tibet, Katherina has decided to put her world traveling experience and her love of puzzles into these fun and creative Armchair Puzzle books.
Overall, Armchair Iceland by Katharina Huang is one puzzle book that will have puzzle enthusiasts begging for more travel destinations like this one. If you are a puzzling enthusiast, this is one book that you shouldn’t pass up!