Day 1 & 2

I was web surfing and found a picture of a big puzzle that was made by Ravensburger from Germany. At the time they have introduced it in the market, it was the biggest that ever been manufactured. This puzzle is made of 18,240 pieces and it is called " 4 Historic World Maps ". Here is a picture of it:

I have been searching for this huge 18,240 pcs puzzle over the net for about 2 weeks. I couldn't find it anywhere as it was discontinued by the manufacture and was out of stuck at all puzzle stores. I have finally found it in UK in a store called "the Modeller" located in Stroud.

The puzzle took a week in the mail. We have received it yesterday "Thursday Jan 13th, 2011".

DAY 1 ( Thursday Jan 13th, 2011 ):

As soon as we received it, we opened it and found that it consists of 4 bags. Each bag contains one of the 4 maps displayed above. Each bag contains 4560 pieces.

We have started with part D "Right lower section". The puzzle is really very difficult. We normally start by sorting the puzzle parts and get out the straight edges and assemble them. The edges were very difficult as they are all the same golden color. While sorting out the colors, the kids started to assemble some parts that they found. The first day ended by assembling 365 pcs. So there are 4195 pieces to go. Here are few pictures:

DAY 2 ( Friday Jan 14th, 2011 ):

It was very hard to assemble more pieces. We had almost half of the puzzel's pieces into bowls as they match in color or design. The rest we had to align them beside each others to be able to find a specific piece. Still the frame edge very hard to assemble. We are thinking to do it for the first time from inside out. Hope this technique will work out.

Will post later how many were done and how many are left, as we are still working on it. As well as more pictures than the one posted above.