4. Finish a 10k+ puzzle

This is a terrible idea isn’t it? 😂

So this is an extremely large puzzle, but upon opening the box I discovered that it is broken into 9 parts, which is very helpful because otherwise I do not know how I would find the space to put this together as I work on it. My plan is to build each section and store it (not glued together) on sheets of poster board until I complete all nine sections.

I might as well start on section A, so here we go! Upon opening this thing, I discovered one very unpleasant reality. The puzzle is essentially a massive corkboard which makes each edge piece completely indistinguishable from one another. Apparently at the end the edges will all be removed so that they can be joined together, so I'm already tempted to just not use them at all.

It’s cold, snowy and there’s nothing to do so I spent the better part of the weekend putting together section A (I decided to NOT use the poster for reference), and the section turned out to be…

North America! Completed Feb. 4, 2026