Buffalo Games - Tropical Island Holiday - 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

I found this a very challenging puzzle. You absolutely have to sort pieces from the very beginning in order to get this one done. Pieces are bigger than normal which is great but many were damaged with the ends splitting into different layers. Overall the positive is a puzzle like this improves your puzzling skills but don’t think I got any fun out of it.

I have done a lot of Buffalo puzzles and never had an issue, the quality of this brand new puzzle was awful, all the knobs were lifting and tattered. You can see by the photo how bad it is and how many there were by the way it doesn't sit flat. There's no way this would hold up to being done multiple times.

The puzzle pieces are not very sturdy.

This is the same review I leave for all puzzles that make me happy.No shame in the puzzle game don't let anyone make you feel boring for getting your puzzle on! There was a recent study suggesting doing puzzles can actually have the same brain benefits and activity as meditation.....and when you have little bits of your soul sucked out of you every single day from kids, job, spouse, the world in general well you take what slivers of happiness and peace you can getChecks off everything that makes a good puzzle for me:-picture is sharp, interesting subject matter- colors are vivid and easy to distinguish between different sections-easy to move assembled pieces-didnt take long to put together (sometimes I don't want to have to commit days or weeks just to get my puzzle fix) Thanks puzzle maker!Do I say the word puzzle too much?

This is pretty much the same review I leave for all puzzles that make me happy.No shame in the puzzle game don't let anyone make you feel boring for getting your puzzle on! There was a recent study suggesting doing puzzles can actually have the same brain benefits and activity as meditation.....and when you have little bits of your soul sucked out of you every single day from kids, job, spouse, the world in general well you take what slivers of happiness and peace you can getChecks off almost everything that makes a good puzzle for me:-picture is sharp, interesting subject matter- colors are vivid and easy to distinguish between different sections-easy to move assembled pieces-didnt take long to put together (sometimes I don't want to have to commit days or weeks just to get my puzzle fix)- lost one star because it was missing one piece but it won't keep me up at night Thanks puzzle maker!Do I say the word puzzle too much?