Ravensburger Dad's Shed, Multi Color (500 Pieces)

Good quality puzzle

Super nice puzzle. Entertaining and challenging. Love the make because of the well made pieces. Will continue to buy.

I bought this puzzle for my 86 year old mother. I thought it might help her with some cognitive abilities but she showed little interest in it. The pieces are larger-sized which is one of the reasons I bought this particular puzzle, and the fact I thought the picture would be one she would have an interest it. However, though she worked very little on it, it gave us something to do while we were over at her house visiting. She would try to put some pieces together but they were almost always the wrong ones. But we still had fun. This puzzle was really hard to work and took us about 3 visits to finally finish. There are so many items in the picture that took extra time to figure out where what piece went where. I'm a shade and shape person so I rarely even look at the picture on the box, but everyone else had to keep looking at the picture to figure out where the pieces went. This picture is loaded with some great items from days of yore when ol' granddad had a shed out back of the house filled with all sorts of useful tools and items, some of which have obviously not been moved in many years. One piece was missing but we don't know if it was because we lost it somewhere (no dogs around this time to eat them) or it actually was missing from the get-go, but I guess we lost it somewhere. A very good quality puzzle that is a pleasure to work.

This being my first puzzle, I had a lot of fun doing it. Large, sturdy pieces helped make it easier to put together.

a good step up puzzle from a 250 piece... the pieces are very large which aides in the assembly process the picture is very nostalgic and as is the case with all puzzles you become very acquanted with the art... i measured and traced the outline, sorted out the edges and assembled them in the frame i drew... then just to get started i sorted out the windows in the upper right because they were very obvious and assembled them in the frame... although i always sort my puzzles by shape this puzzle is very easily done by visual cues... gather up the areas that are easiest to distinguish... after the windows i did the open door, then sort the shelf items and pile them in relative position... when you get to the benchs and the floor it will take some assembly by shape...i get confused when there is too much of a visual item like all the wood to seperate out the pieces... because of the nature of my puzzle area only one person could work on it at a time and my 82 year old mother and i worked shifts off and on during the day and completed it easily in one day.... although her eye sight is diminished she does much better than me with minor visual cues and slight variations of color... i have a tendency to not see the forest for the trees which is why i sort by shape and when i find i'm using the 'poke a puzzle piece' technique to ill effect i switch to finding a single piece by shape for a specific position... that technique takes longer but will often push you through when you start 'poking around' happy puzzling