Anatolian Puzzle - Fractal İstanbul, 3000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle, #4913

Challenging is an under statement! Long lasting fun for people who love a REAL puzzle! This puzzle nearly drove us over the edge because of the detail and complexity of the image. Now that the LAST piece has been put in, we have so far, been unable to make ourselves put it back in the box. It has been sitting there for over a week. Finishing this one IS absolutely possible, but it is absolutely diabolical and it will take a good long time!

My wife is a puzzler and she loved this one....I now have to find similar ones to get her.

I loved this puzzle of Istanbul with its architectural details, people, cats and seagulls :-)

The picture on the box is not sufficiently large to do a puzzle with this many pieces. It ruins the enjoyment of doing a puzzle when you have to strain your eyes this much. This is the last Anatolian puzzle I will buy.

This is a challenging puzzle but the bright colors and unique perspectives and angles of the artwork add an extra mixture of ease and challenge. You can use the artwork perspective to help determine where the plentiful pieces should generally go. As an example, depending on the angle of a car you can tell if it's from the upper/lower border or the left/right. I love isometric artwork as a whole, so that has also added to my enjoyment. If I had any complaints, an included poster in a larger scale than the box would be helpful, and the last is more a fault of the size, you almost have to do it on a table with 360 degree access, or plan on a lot of standing to reach the further points. Neither have distracted significantly from my enjoyment though and I would buy this puzzle again in a heartbeat.

this was the hardest puzzle I have ever done but so worth it. It would have been easier if there was a poster included as you cannot get the full picture from just the box cover.