Educa 9,000 Piece Puzzle - The Garden of Earthly Delights

This is my first time to work on a 9000 piece puzzle and it is difficult but manageable.This puzzle is made with quality and only little bit of powdery when I open the bag but it is not too bad.

The box came without damages or any other lacks. The seal wasn't broken. I haven't make this puzzle yet but I'm sure it will be great after completing.

Largest one I had assembled was 4000 pcs. My next winter challenge, I saw the original in Madrid and I got it as soon as I saw it. I intend to post photos of the completed puzzle. I received it, unpacked and was satisfied with the packing, board quality and glossy finish of the pieces.

Good normal pieces, no weird cool pieces but they don't seem to be easily damaged, so far so good

I received this puzzle today--9000 pieces, in two bags inside the cardboard box. Pieces have minimal dust in the bag, great colors, picture is attached very well to the backing. Some pieces slide (not many), most are fully locking pieces. No frayed edges. Has a shine but is not a high gloss. Some pieces fit with a slight gap (ever so slight) and several pieces have the may-or-may-not-go-here fit, but when one has 9000 pieces, it does come to be expected. Puzzle is 7 feet by 4 feet, verified.My only complaint? I bought this a week ago for $109, then the price has dropped over $10.00. I looked up to see if I got this from a different seller, but it states that this is indeed the seller I got it from, and according to Amazon, as of last week I got the last one. Not sure that this is great for customer service, to have an order drop in price as soon as someone whom just ordered it got it. I'd appreciate a response on that topic.**SIDEBAR--right after this was published, the price went back up to $109. Not exactly the response I wanted, but it was indeed a response!**

My son loves it! It's been on his bucket list for ages.

If you are a jigsaw puzzle fan, then you will love this challenge!

I was so excited for this puzzle. I love the painting of the Garden of Earthly Delights, and I was very excited for the challenge of putting this puzzle together. This was the first extra large puzzle that I had attempted. My previously largest puzzle that I put together was 5,000 pieces.I didn't finish it. I only got about 1/8th of the way through it before I decided that it wasn't worth finishing. Usually I wouldn't write a review of something that I didn't finish, but I felt it was my obligation to warn people about how extremely horrible this puzzle is. I think this is the first unfinished product that I have reviewed, but I did put together over 1,000 pieces before I threw in the towel.I'm pretty sure that no one in the world, even the manufacturer, has completely put this puzzle together. Actually, I'm sure the manufacturer didn't put this together before shipping it out, because any responsible company would have recalled this piece of junk.What makes it so bad? The picture quality is horrendous. It was like they took a 500 kilobyte photo (super small digital camera size), and blew it up to a 4' x 7' puzzle. It was especially frustrating, because there's a 228 megabyte version available in the public domain and widely available. The picture on the outside of the box actually has a much higher resolution than the final version that got printed on the actual puzzle. I'm not sure how they botched this so horribly, but they did. It's like they used a super old computer to do the editing, and the editor accidentally saved it wrong, losing almost all of the picture detail.The only people that this puzzle will appeal to are people who usually turn the puzzles upside down, and do puzzles with just the gray of the cardboard, and not the picture. If you finally get this puzzle put together, it will be so grainy and blurry that you will be embarrassed to hang it up.That's my major complaint. I have a few very minor ones, too.There were a ton of pieces that were perfect fits with other pieces. I've actually never come across a perfect fit of one piece to another piece inside of a puzzle, in all of the probably hundreds of puzzles I've done in my life, and even in just one row of pieces, there were probably about fifteen perfect fits.I bought a few 24x36 poster prints of this to help me out with it, and I printed out a few pictures that I found on the internet. The colors in this picture are much different than on any other version than I have seen, and the colors on the inside are much different than what's on the cover, which lends credence to my theory about how someone accidentally messed up the editing, because the final picture is heavily edited and color manipulated, but in a bad way.And, the cover doesn't shows 100% of the picture, and there's no print on the inside of the box either. This is minor, because many puzzles are like this.I did like that it fit perfectly on a standard-sized four foot by eight foot board that I got from the hardware store. This is the only 6,000+ piece puzzle that I've found where you don't have to make a special board for it. I had an extra half inch on the short size and a foot on the long side. And the actual quality of the pieces is pretty good.This puzzle is so bad, that I really have to question what went wrong with it. Educa obviously has an issue with their graphic design, their quality control, and their management. This is the last Educa puzzle that I'm ever going to buy.Pros:+Fits on a 4'x8' piece of lumber from the local home improvement store+Beautiful picture+Not much puzzle dust, but their "virtually no puzzle dust" claim is an exaggerationCons:-Extremely horrible picture quality-Many exact-fitting pieces (And, no, my eyes aren't bad. There are a ton of pieces that are 100% exact fits to other pieces.)-Really bad digital manipulation of the picture. They got rid of many of the rich colors, and replaced them with purply pinks and and a weird greenish brown.-The print on the inside doesn't match the cover of the box-Only fun for those people who put puzzles together upside down-Very, very low resolution, grainy version of this great classic painting