EducaAntique World Map 1000-Piece Puzzle, Brown, (15159)The Forest Stewardship Council

Finished in two days, really enjoyed it. There was one moment where I thought I couldn't go on, but I managed. My suggestion is to sort the pieces as best you can because once you get to land, it can become very overwhelming.I, of course, started with the boarder and the flags. Then I put together all of the drawn ships and any circular images. And placed them all where I thought they belonged.But that's when I got stuck. I started running my fingers through all of the land and water pieces, hopelessly trying to figure out where to start. Right when I was considering giving up, I noticed two very thin latitude and longitude lines across the puzzle. I sorted those pieces out and placed them together. After that, I finally had a solid foundation to work with and it was all really easy from there.Definitely recommend to people who love 1000+ piece puzzles. Good challenge. I'm going to put it together again in a few years and hang it up in a frame.

This puzzle was so much fun. I did it slowly over the time of like a month. There were some challenges. I suggest buying a puzzle roll up mat unless you’re planning on having it on an un-used table. I used a roll up mat cause I have a cat. And I didn’t want to get to the end with a piece missing.Some of the pieces are connect by curves and they don’t lock together until after you get more of the surrounding pieces.The frame isn’t a perfect match but it works since the background is brown. The frame I found that was a best fit was a 20x18It was weird because I measured it prior to going to the store and my measurement were 27x19 but looking at those they were WAY too big.Overall loved it. No missing or messed up pieces

This was a very challenging but rewarding puzzle to do. Before your purchase be aware of a few details:-The wording on the pieces (cities and other details) is very small, almost unintelligible without a magnifying glass or very good eyesight. This will make a large majority of the pieces hard to differentiate based on the similar color scheme.-There was puzzle glue included with the puzzle, which is something most puzzles do not provide.-I did this on a puzzle mat I bought from Jo-Anns or Michaels craft store. While it wasn't just falling apart, it took a lot of the puzzle to be done before it started to hold together better.As with all puzzles its all about the end game, sure the process can be rewarding but, this is what made it 5 stars for me. I plan on framing this for an office/den area. Hope I could help.

I am a long time puzzler, and when I tell you this puzzle is gorgeous, I mean it. I am taking stars off because the writing on this puzzle is so tiny, it was making my eyeballs so tired when I worked on this, I would say you need perfect vision to put this one together because the details are so intricate. But it’s truly a gorgeous puzzle, just a little frustrating.

Very cool puzzle once assembled. Took almost three months. Had to build a table just to do it on (2 saw horses and a piece of plywood). Assembly is hard because the pieces do fit in more than once place. Especially the boarder. The entire top and bottom are mirrors of each other. Same goes with left and right sides. We actually had both in the wrong place and had to switch them. Same goes with the interior of the puzzle. The piece that fits in the top left will also fit in the bottom right. So be aware of the small details and you should be ok unlike us who had to do a lot of piece switching. Also the puzzle had all 4000 pieces. None were missing.

The puzzle comes with glue useful to hang the completed puzzle if desired and a "lost pieces service" which I needed since it arrived with one piece missing (which is very frustrating since I am very careful handling puzzles). The previous puzzle from another company came with an extra piece so I have to wonder if quality control is a general problem.The puzzle itself is clearly printed which is important to be able to read the tiny letters on some pieces. The colors are faithful to the picture on the box cover. I followed the instructions to get the "lost piece" on January 20 and the website reports that the piece was sent on February 7. When I reported the missing piece, I learned that it takes about 4 weeks for the replacement to arrive. I hope it does arrive because there are other puzzles of interest from Educa.

Excellent puzzle. My 20 year old daughter and I worked on this intermittently, enjoying the process of deciding which approach to use on various sections of the puzzle. In the process we learned some facts about geography, at least those represented by this particular map. It was a very relaxing time of conversation and "puzzle solving", exactly what I would wish from a jig-saw project. The pieces are high quality and the graphics are very good. It is a large puzzle, and we occupied a good portion of a dining room table for a couple of weeks while we casually worked upon it. Great fun, and I recommend it!

These peices do not puzzle together very well. Loose goosey!!