Bits and Pieces - 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults - Oriental Gate Quilt - 1000 pc Geisha Jigsaw by Artist Haruyo Morita

This puzzle is challenging enough for me and it is a beautiful picture!

My daughter loves jigsaw puzzles & wanted to finish one up to give her grandmother as a Christmas gift. After putting it together, it was fitted for a trim, frame & wire hanger. The puzzle was a bit difficult, but definitely a fun challenge for someone who enjoys it as a hobby.

This was a Christmas gift for my wife: The Puzzle Master/Guru. The moment she opened the box she declared this brand to be far superior to any other brand she owns (and she owns every brand I've ever heard of). While she was putting it together she could not stop raving about the perfect fit and amazing feel and quality workmanship. The finished puzzle is strikingly beautiful - worthy of framing. She was able to pick the entire puzzle up by the top corners without a single piece coming loose. Impressive. This is the brand I will stick with from now on.

Such a pleasure to do this puzzle, Oriental Gate Quilt with four geishas. The pieces have lots of unique shapes and none were peeling, torn, or bent like so many puzzles. The pieces are solidly made and join together nicely. We've done 93 puzzles since the start of the pandemic, and this was definitely one of my favorites.

The picture was pretty, with nice colors. It was challenging at first, (the edge pieces being all the same colors), but got easier as I went along. I don't mind irregular shaped pieces and I had no problem with a piece fitting in to multiple places. The only negative is that the pieces don't fit together that well.

This was difficult, just the way I like my puzzles. It was like working four puzzles in one.

The Japanese Oriental Gate Quilt is a work of art. This is beautiful enough to frame. My only complaint is that there are pieces missing!! I contacted the customer service department to see if they can replace these pieces. I have yet to hear back from them. So sad. I spent a lot of time assembling this puzzle.

This is one of those cheaply made puzzles where any number of pieces can fit any other number of pieces. You can never be sure whether you've made a true match because three pieces might fit the space in question just as well. This is not a problem, obviously, on the colorful center, but on the outer borders you might find three or four pieces that seem to be identical, so you have no way of knowing what the true match is until you've done the rest of the puzzle. This is a one-star product as far as I'm concerned, but some people might not mind the above-described challenge, so I gave it two stars.