What's really helpful with this kind of puzzle is that you have words on the pieces so you know which direction they go, and if you know your geography that helps a lot too.
@@semibiotic Or any puzzle with a large section of one color. Then you got those gimmick puzzles where the whole puzzle is one solid color (like that one that's a shiny rainbow)
I bought a 1000 piece puzzle and that alone took me a couple weeks to complete. It didn't help that most of the surrounding pieces were literally the same colour but what you did with this 4K piece puzzle is amazing. Great job
I average ~6hrs for a 1k pieces puzzle and about 10hrs for the more tricky ones, like you describe. What helps for me is that when I look for the edges as a first activity I already sort specific colors at the same time.
At first I was thinking "this doesn't seem too hard, there's a lot of details to go off!" Then they finished the edges. That is too big for my dopamine-deprived brain to finish. Respect to you for actually completing this BEAST of a puzzle!
You would think this puzzle would be extremely difficult, but having done it myself, it was surprisingly easy for what it is. The most difficult parts were surprisingly the edge, due to the fit of the pieces not being the best and the small details, and not surprisingly, the Siberian part of Russia. You would think the ocean is difficult, but if you complete the puzzle in roughly the same order as the video and save the ocean for last, nearly 75% of ocean pieces had lines of latitude and longitude on them, and you could narrow it down to two quadrants of the puzzle based solely on the angle of the lines. Honestly the hardest part is just the sheer number of pieces but with patient sorting, it's not too bad really. And of course it helps to have some geography knowledge!
We have this puzzle! Worked on in for 6 months and got all the continents and flags and border. The water took us out and we gave us. It’s stored in tiles until we decide to try and finish it. This time lapse is mega impressive!!
Super duper impressive- 4k pieces is no small feat!! I just bought this yesterday and am afraid to start it hahahhaha. Thanks for the video and your effort- it gives me hope.
I just bought my first 1000 piece puzzle. Took 2 weeks. I gotta say that is a very nice puzzle. I want a world map like that painted on my living room wall or maybe my dinning room. Thanks for shareing.
Man doing puzzle: I am the greatest puzzler of all time! That last puzzle piece that always seems to go missing: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.
I have solved this one before. My friends gifted it to me because I was applying for a geography program. It's been glued to my ceiling for around 5 years now :)
I have the similar Ancient Map before , and cost me three month to finish (3 hours per day), yours is much easlier than me since you got lots of flags at the top and two circles at the bottom. For mine, it got eight old fashion paintings (early middle age?) at both left and right side. and for the rest of the map it is just showing EUROPE, with small part of northern Africa. The most difficult one is the longitude and latitude, just same as you:)
I thought seeing the build of a 21 x 21 Rubik’s cube was impressive with 2700 parts. This is a whole Nother level of time and patience! Absolutely amazing!
What did you do in the end? I want to frame it but have no ideia how I'll flip it and tape it (my original thought). The pieces don't stick together at all!
