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Family Games Portico IQ Genius Puzzles

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I bought this for my husband because he loves these kinds of puzzles and can usually solve the smaller ones in a matter of minutes. He was excited to get this, and couldn't wait to start. After taking it out of the box, he looked for instructions to see exactly what he was supposed to do to solve it, but there wasn't anything else in the box. I went to the website, which was pretty useless, but I did find a very basic instruction. After working on it for approximately 15 minutes, my husband asked me if the wood frame was supposed to move. I said I didn't think so. This thing is so poorly made that the whole puzzle was shimmying in a matter of minutes. Other parts of the puzzle would come off in your hands. None of the wood pieces was glued together, they are just dry-fitted together. This is not the kind of construction you would expect from a puzzle that needs 200 manipulations, or whatever they claim.

We are very disappointed in this puzzle. I told my husband I wanted to return it, but he said, no, that it would look nice on his desk anyway. Oh well.