EuroGraphicsGreat Wave Kanagawa by Hokusai Puzzle (1000-Piece), (Model: 6000-1545)

The puzzle is great. The pieces are high quality and fit is perfect. The final picture is rewarding and worth the effort.Difficulty is up there, but not oppressively hard.

My family usually does a puzzle over wither holiday and this was then puzzle this year. Good quality image and cardboard, good challenge.

Ne ready for a challenger. This was the hardest puzzle we have ever seen.

This puzzle arrived on time and had all the pieces. Correctly challenging and fun to do. My only complaint is that the pieces fit rather loosely so even if a piece is placed correctly it's difficult to tell, and many incorrectly placed pieces seem like they fit. It is the first puzzle I've done that when assembled it is still so loose you can't pick it up. That makes it challenging to apply backing if you save your puzzles.

Incredibly hard in a good way. Not a lot of variety in piece shapes but that added to the complexity. Not a puzzle for someone that likes to complete them quickly. This one takes a bit of thinking.

Puzzle is very challenging and took just over three weeks for me to complete (night times only) as alot of the puzzle looked the same as another, but definitely worth the wait and the completed puzzle looks amazing. The unique cuts of some of the pieces, while some people found it very difficult to work with, I found it very handy when trying to match all the solid colours together, as the uniqueness cut down on the searching of some of the pieces.

This is not a good puzzle. I cannot state this strongly enough. I realize now that I lived in a blithe state of ignorance with regards to puzzles for the first 39 years of life. Up until purchasing this one, I was under the impression that pretty much all puzzles were good puzzles and the thing that made some more enjoyable than others was entirely to do with the image.This puzzle taught me otherwise. I was initially excited when I found a manufacturer that made puzzles from images of fine art. I thought this meant I could stare endlessly at something I found aesthetically pleasing instead of a cheesy tableau that would use up my kitsch tolerance for months in one go. So I picked a piece of work I liked and ordered it without a second thought.When the puzzle arrived and we actually unpacked it, I saw at once it would be a challenge. But I do not mind a challenge! We got to work and made good headway for quite a while before certain areas emerged as problem spots. At first I couldn't figure out why I was having so much difficulty with these essentially featureless regions. This is not the first puzzle I have tackled where many pieces are all but visually indistinguishable. But the shapes! I finally realized that this puzzle uses only one piece shape. One. Literally every single freaking piece of the 1,000 included is the same basic size and format. Beyond that, many pieces will fit in the wrong spot without difficulty. So it's not a simple matter of test a piece and see if it goes. It's test a piece, see if it goes, then double-check every edge for the tiniest nuance of color that might suggest it's not the right piece after all. (Hint: it often isn't). For huge portions of the puzzle, literally the one way to proceed was to make a pile of all potential pieces that were the right color/texture and then systematically try them, one by one, in a single spot while regularly getting tripped up by rogue pieces that end up improperly placed. This is painful and maddening and I'm not sure why we kept going.In the end, this puzzle made me realize that there are two kinds of challenging puzzles. Good challenging puzzles are a fun exercise in looking for shape and color matches. While these might give rise to feelings of frustration at times, mostly they are pleasurable to work on.Then there is this kind of puzzle. This is a torture puzzle. The only way to complete it is to pour in many painful hours sorting pieces by slight nuances in tone and brute-forcing your way through, all the while hating yourself for being such a slave to sunk costs.Oh and in the end we didn't even get to complete the puzzle. There was a piece missing. Which meant all the maddening effort led to the unsatisfyingly incomplete result. And beyond everything else, the puzzle itself is just extremely poor quality. The image used is lossy and degraded, meaning every piece is mushily full of artifacts that make your head swim while you stare at them trying to detect the tiniest nuance of gradient and texture. There was also so much glare on the surface we literally couldn't even work on it except in natural light.Since completing this puzzle, we have done a Buffalo Games puzzle and started a Ravensburger puzzle. The Buffalo Games puzzle was so superior, the act of assembling it is not even a comparable experience. Though there was still a (less pronounced) glare, there were multiple piece shapes and image quality was far better. The Ravensburger one so far is a pure pleasure. No glare, beautiful resolution, and no chance the piece you just fit into the puzzle with no resistance is not actually the right piece for the spot.In the end, this puzzle cost me hours of my life and has also taught me to loathe a piece of artwork I previously liked. I will never buy another puzzle from this manufacturer.

The challenge level of this puzzle is high, I'm thinking there are missing pieces because I have no more edges left and they're not complete. I guess I will find out until I am done. But the art and material of the puzzle is right, love it. Does anyone else had it incomplete?