JOYIN 8 Pcs DIY Kids 3D Wooden Puzzles, Animals Brain Teaser Puzzles, Kids Arts and Crafts, Indoor Activity, Non-Toxic Plywood with Grooved Edges, Christmas Fun Gifts Classroom Prize

Let's have some real talk here. OMG Joyin (The manufacturer) talk about phoning it in. So here's the deal - the pictures that go with each puzzle are ridiculous. Somebody really bad at puzzles must have built those things in their pictures, because there are errors in all of them. They didn't even try. I've made 4 of these so far - the Swan, the Deer, the Penguin and Baby, and the Butterfly.The Butterfly - simple, easy, huge, straightforward. Totally a level 1 puzzle. No problems there. Did I mention it's huge though?The Penguin - Luckily I started with this build. The pieces all fit, they went together fine, there were a few secret bits, but everything worked. I didn't see the directions till after I finished, which probably benefitted me because the directions are tiny and don't totally make sense. I mean, you don't do the directions in order or the build will fail. They show each section of the build, and then you kind of figure out for yourself what parts to do first, etc. Anyway, the Penguin was fine. The image that went with the puzzle had bizarrely wonky feet and was missing it's tail, which I didn't even notice until I went back to look after what happened with the next puzzles. But all in all, no real issues.The Swan - Seriously? Ok, rewind. The build was fine. The parts all fit together. The puzzle holds together just fine. The image: ??? The wings are just kind of randomly slapped together. Like whoever made them was either drunk or they just gave up at that point. The feathers are backwards and the wings are upside down. The center ridge in the image has the back bit in the middle. Moving on.The Deer - OMG the deer. What were they thinking. Ok. let's do this. Easy part first. This is a more complicated build with parts that look similar, so you may want to mark all the slots with their numbers before breaking them out. Just remember that the parts aren't numbered, the slots are. So slot 1 on one part will match with slot 1 on another part. And same as with the other builds, you don't do them in order per the directions, you build them in units, then put all the units together. Now for the bad. The antlers are very pretty and slot onto the crown, which has to slot onto the head. It has about 1/4 inch to slot to, so the crown pops off very easily. And the neck pieces wee a little every which way so getting it to fit was not super easy, though the centering square helped a lot there. The backbone bit was ridiculous. Getting the squares to all fit required me to shave a bit off of one of them, and then glue them on to the backbone, just to make sure they wouldn't just pop off if I picked it up the wrong way. Fail, but not a dealbreaker. There's literally only a certain length for them to fit into, and that's it, so shaving a piece was the only option. The side pieces kept falling off, as they slot downwards, and it's not a tight fit, so since I was already involving glue, I just went ahead and glued them on too. And now for the legs. The bad. The very very bad. So there are 4 hip joints - because, of course, 4 hips, right? 3 legs are down, one leg is up. Because of this the stress has to be pressing up on the 3 joints, and down on the leg that is up. The picture is worse than useless and probably lost me an hour while I stared at it and tried to make the legs work. Because they didn't even try to make the legs fit on the way they're designed to. And yes, the design is there, the legs do work, just not very well. So please ignore the image of the legs completely. Finally I stopped looking at the image. Stopped looking at the directions (because the directions are actually WRONG here).Actual directions for the legs on the deer: First separate out the 4 legs, the muscles that go on top of the legs and help lock them into place, and the joints that hold them to the deer (more on that bit later). Each muscle will sort of match a leg, so it's easy to figure out which muscle goes with which leg. Second, look at your leg joints. 3 have a slot that goes up, and a slot that goes down, and a wider side, and a narrower side. The narrow side goes towards the deer. The wider side goes towards the leg. There's a bump at the top and bottom of the wider side. This will stop the legs from sliding in towards the deer when you slot them on. By trial and error, figure out which joint works best with each of the three legs touching the ground. First you slot on the leg, then the muscle will have to fit on over it. Then you hook the leg into the deer. It will fit horribly loosely into each leg socket. Just ignore this for now. For the leg that's lifted, the joint will have two sockets facing down, so the leg doesn't fall off (directions fail here). slot the leg on, then the muscle. Except no. This won't work, because the leg slot isn't big enough. I thought maybe I just was doing it wrong, Except also no. There are truly no other options here. So I got out my trusty exacto and widened the slot carefully, just by about an eighth of an inch, then it fit. Slot the leg on and you will have a deformed deer that can't stand on it's legs without falling over. Now for the fun and final part. The bits that you removed from the slots - use those to slot in between the leg and the deer, one in front of the leg and one in back of the leg, for every leg. It's like they ran out of space and just decided to omit 4 parts from the build. I glued these in because there is not slot to hold them on and they kept falling off.Then I glued on the crown, since, hey, why not, since I had to use glue anyway? I let the glue dry with the deer standing, because even with the extra pieces, the leg joints kind of go where they want. So pick the spot that lets the deer stand.Anyway. It was fun, but I wasted 2 hours on a 30 minute build trying to figure up what was wrong with the legs.I can't wait to try the other ones and see what horrors they committed there.Bottom line - the designs aren't horrible (except for the missing leg bits and the couple of pieces that I had to shave), but the pictures and directions are poorly made and with the more complex ones you will likely need glue. Pretty sure the manufacturer had no idea how to build their own puzzle.But I had fun figuring out what they messed up, so I gave it 3 stars. :)

Purchased for my 9 yr old nephew, he loved them

These are really nice

My friend's kid likes it very much!

I've bought these puzzles several times, for children from age 5 to 12, and they're a huge hit. It's great to give a gift that is not plastic, that encourages concentration, precision and patience, that is fun for a single child, a pair of children, or a child and an adult. The kids get a real sense of satisfaction and success when they complete the puzzle and several children painted the finished product. It's often a challenge to punch out the pieces without damaging them, but, again, this is part of the creative lesson these puzzles provide. Highly recommended.

I think they are cute but they are a bit difficult to get out of the mold especially if they weren't cut properly. Definitely an adult supervision needed if given to a child.The pieces fit either snug or loose.All of mine came in tact except for the butterfly.

These are for adults not kids. If pieces aren't marked they get confusing.

We have completed three of these. For each we had to cut parts from several pieces so the respective piece would be smaller/fit. Thus, younger hands cannot put together on their own as a sharp knife is needed to cut the wood pieces that do not fit.