MaxRenard Fine Art Famous Oil Painting Jigsaw Puzzle 1000 Pieces The School of Athens Raphael Puzzle for Adult Museum Collection Home Decoration Family Game Gift

I loved this puzzle! The pieces are THICK, definitely able to be used many times. I was pleasantly surprised by how the puzzle was divided up into sections by color on the pack of the pieces. The puzzle was still challenging, but this feature kept it from feeling impossible frustrating! The completed puzzle is so beautiful that I don't want to take it apart! I will most definitely be buying from this brand again.

Good tight fit for pieces means you can lift assembled subsections to relocate all in one piece. Nice detail in the image. Challenging in that small patches of similar colors appear all across the image so that you end up working on several areas simultaneously rather than solving section by section. Few patches of solid, texture-less color that force you to go only by shape. Good variety of piece shapes so that you seldom put a wrong piece in solely by fit. Well designed cut means there are some fun surprises where the cut runs right along some strong image contrast line, or some dot of color is completely contained by a piece tab, that sort of thing. Very satisfying to solve, cool painting to contemplate in its subject, details and technique.

I work 1000-piece Max Renard puzzles because they are so vibrant and well made. My favorite feature is that the backs of the pieces are numbered 1-6 on some puzzles and with 6 different colors on others. These colors tell you what section of the puzzle any given piece goes in. The result is that you can separate the 1000 pieces into yellowbacks, pinkbacks, bluebacks, etc., or 1, 2, 3, etc., put the pieces of each color or number in its own bowl (if you have six cereal bowls, let's say), and then work one section at a time. It still takes a couple of weeks to put the puzzle together, but the task is challenging and fun rather than slow and frustrating. Okay, there's just enough frustration to let you know you're working a thousand-piece puzzle, but it doesn't spoil the fun. And when you're through, you can smile rather than saying to yourself, I'm glad that's over. It helps that many of the pictures are of fine art, and very colorful.

Okay puzzle just hard to see, but the back is color coded so a bit better and easier to solve

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This was a Christmas gift for my sister-in-law. Both her and my brother thought it was a great puzzle and we were excited to get started on it.

I bought this because I enjoy putting together the famous paintings jigsaw puzzles. The back of each puzzle piece is color coded to make it easier if you get a little stuck. I love all the Max Renaud puzzles as I have quite a few. The package arrived on time and in great shape. The puzzle comes with a poster to help as you go along. I would recommend this puzzle.

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