4,000 Piece Puzzle - The World Map

Fantastic puzzle overall and definitely worth purchasing and doing! Took 14 days working every day and probably totaled close to ~70-80 hours of time. Piece quality is good, nice thickness, and no pieces were bent, torn, peeling, damaged, etc... Pieces fit together well and stay together, but moving pieces around will cause them to fall apart if you try to pick them up. Text on the pieces is clear and legible, allowing you to quickly place lots of places at least in the general area where they need to go, however the writing on the box is extremely small and very difficult to read even with great eyesight as others have mentioned, but it is possible. A poster would REALLY be helpful on this puzzle. Another thing to be very aware of is that the border pieces all contain a repeating pattern and border pieces will fit precisely with numerous other incorrect border pieces, so be extremely careful to make sure the pattern lines up perfectly or it will waste a lot of time and be frustrating at the end. Even paying attention I misplaced 4-5 border pieces and had to comb over the pattern to readjust them. This is the 1st puzzle I've not started with the border, and instead did the flags, and colored band just inside the border first, in order to have a 2nd point of reference to check that the border pieces are correctly placed and fit from multiple sides. After the flags and borders, I'd suggest sorting out the latitude and longitude lines with numbers as this will really help you place other pieces later by referencing them using them as an X & Y axis grid . Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn lines are also easy to sort out and give more reference points, as well as the mini globes and compass section, ship, and then I moved onto the land and finally the water. Definitely thought I was missing a few pieces that I struggled to find, but in the end every single one was there. Very rewarding puzzle and now the only question is whether to glue and keep it, or put it away to do again someday...

Wow! I ordered this puzzle during the Christmas holidays for half off the usual price, and I have to say it would be worth it at full price. I worked on it for 34 days during the pandemic without any help from others, except I did have to use a magnifying glass to read some of the names on the pieces. Part of that is my mid-life eyes, unfortunately, but sometimes the writing was just incredibly hard to read. I thoroughly enjoyed working on this puzzle and despite a few oddities, I have to give it 5 stars. You will find it frustrating that Educa's advertising on the box prevents you from seeing what the right side of the map should look like. I searched online for other pictures, hoping to find a clear one but never could. I have included a picture (sorry, it's not the best) of most of it. The other pictures will show that you should expect some pieces to fit together oddly; the edges do not meet. I also included a picture that shows how a puzzle piece can fit perfectly in a place it does not belong (usually obvious, but not always!). The latter is particularly important regarding the border - I had 4 border pieces that fit perfectly but were definitely not in their right place. You have to really pay attention to the design and sometimes, when you are tired, this isn't always so obvious. Again, there are some oddities with the puzzle but overall, it was a great accomplishment! If you love to puzzle, then you should not pass this one up. The finished product looks fantastic!

This puzzle was a joy to assemble - the pieces feel nice in your hand, fit together perfectly, have virtually no dust, rarely stick together in the box, and rarely lift up when you've been lying across the semi-completed sections to reach a different part. - This is not a technically difficult puzzle. The only thing that makes it hard is the number of pieces. The pieces are almost all the standard "two ins and two outs" shape, with a few internal pieces that are concave or convex on one side. There's so much detail in the map that almost every piece can be placed by logic, rather than brute force trial and error. - This puzzle has multiple identically-cut pieces. We found about 10 (including, as another review mentioned, some edge pieces) close enough in color that they were initially incorrectly placed. But we were never able to identify a pattern to the placement of paired pieces. - Geographical knowledge helps immensely, but working the puzzle without outside resources doesn't necessarily increase your geographical knowledge. I found I knew far more about where in the world things were after I used Google Maps to place things (particularly islands) than when I used pattern / color / shape matching standard puzzle techniques. Also, particularly for islands, Google makes things go a lot faster. - Also helpful: shallow stacking plastic food storage containers to hold various groups of sorted pieces. My dining room table was big enough for the puzzle, but not big enough for a piece boneyard also. - It took us not more than 100 person hours, but definitely not fewer than 80 person hours, over 9 days to finish. This is one where working it in big chunks of time is much more efficient.

Das Puzzle ist vollkommen in Ordnung. Alle Teile da. Farben knackig und keine Beschädigungen. Lediglich die teilweise fehlenden Nuten/Federn (im Stile eines Jig-saw) machen das Anlegen eher schwierig. Gefällt mir persönlich nicht so. Ihr solltet nur wissen, dass das Teil NICHTS für Anfänger ist und eventuell nicht mal was für fortgeschrittene. Das Puzzelerlebnis ist ganz anders als sonst. Man muss aktiv Ortschaften nach Kontinenten sortieren (zB über Google oder langem suchen auf der Karte), nicht wie üblich nach farbe. Außerdem kann man sich fast immer an der Schrift orientieren und weiß daher meist wie rum das Puzzleteil angelegt werden muss. Der Rand ist ein Albtraum. Ich habe mich sehr oft verpuzzelt (und es am Ende glaube ich immer noch nicht richtig). Die Zuordnung fällt aufgrund der mikroskopischen Unterschiede zwischen den Markierungen super schwer. Der Ozean ist dagegen eher das übliche. Wer gutes farbsehen hat und ein geübter Puzzler, sollte damit klar kommen. Hoffe das hilft bei der Kaufentscheidung :) Anmerkung: die fehlende Ecke auf den Fotos und die Schrauben sind ein Versehen meinerseits beim Aufkleben / Befestigen an der Wand und haben nichts mit dem Produkt zu tun ;-)

J'avais déja pris une mappemonde plus récente de 3000 piéces mais la une tres vieille carte du monde en 4000 piéces, je me régale, comme toujours la qualité est présente et je sais que j'en aurais pour un tres long moment, ( je le fais seul) , il est certain qu'il faut de la patience mais quel plaisir de chercher ,bléssé ,je me mettais a la télé, maintenant le fait de m'approcher de la planche faite exprés m'oblige a m'assoir et meme si je n'arrive qu'a mettre 1 a 5 piéces je suis content, , ce qui est appréciable, c'est la beauté et la qualité des piéces et du tableau a faire, ce n'est vraiment pas cher pour un plaisir extréme

Öncelikle kargoda paketi açıp içini incelemisler ve kutu yırtılmıştı. Ve 1200TL ye aldığım puzzle için 550TL civarında Türkiye vergisi ödedim. Puzzle muhteşemdi ilk başta bu nasıl bitecek dedim. Ama önce bazı çizgileri yerleştirdim ve kendime kılavuz belirledim. Sadece kutu üzerindeki yazılar çok küçük ve telefonumun kamerasını defalarca kullandım): ve puzzle in sağ tarafındaki büyük marka yazıları beni oldukça zorladı. Yaklaşık 1.5 ayda ortalama günlük 1-2 saat başında kalarak bitirdim. İnanılmaz motive edici ve her bulduğum parçada beni mutlu etti. En güzel dünya haritası puzzle bu olabilir. Satıcıya ve Educa ya teşekkür ederim.

Takes time and perseverance, but certainly doable. Looks amazing once finished. No pieces missing, however took extra care when sorting and building. I recommend also buying containers and a puzzle matt. Took me over 30 hours to complete. Mounting to a wall will be tricky, so any advice on this will certainly be helpful. My suggestion for anyone contemplating this?...DO IT!! Start by sorting the pieces by oceans, land, flags, compass etc. Some pieces can fit into multiple locations (especially the edges), attention to detail is key. My only criticism is like previous comments. There needs to be a large sized poster to help with orientation, especially the right side where the box is covered by logo's. Thank you Educa.

Las piezas son de buena calidad y al verlo armado los dibujos son iguales a lo mostrado en la caja. Lo más dificil de armar son los bordes, ya que si no prestas mucha atención las piezas son practicamente iguales y hay algunas que se pegan con más de una pieza, por lo que hay que revisar muy bien los diseños para corroborar que esta bien pegada. Al terminarlo me faltaron dos piezas, pero en la caja viene la información del fabricante, quien te manda las piezas por correo desde España. En terminos generales fue un rompecabezas dificil, pero muy entretenido