Standard 1,500 piece

I love puzzles (generally 1000 to 2000-piece ones), and I have gone through a lot of configurations trying to find the perfect puzzle board - dining room tables, cardboard sewing/ craft boards, foam presentation boards, and most recently, a large sheet of plywood covered in felt. All of these methods had flaws so I decided to give this a try. I was skeptical - since the dimensions are very close to that of a finished 1500 piece puzzle, I wasn’t sure there would be enough room to have all the pieces laying out during the puzzling process. But WOW have I been pleasantly surprised! Pros: -I LOVE the moveable side panels - they make it way easier to reach pieces or to slide completed sections to the opposite end of the board. Complete game changer. -The fabric on this board is the perfect combination of grippy and slick - less grippy than felt but not as slick as wood. It holds the pieces in place when you move a side panel or bump the board, but it allows you to slide pieces across the surface when you want to do so. -There is plenty of room for a 1500-piece puzzle! Having the 2 side flaps plus 2 moveable side panels creates a lot more room than I expected. -It’s surprisingly sturdy - more so than cardboard or foamboard. -Despite its sturdiness, it’s lightweight enough that (unlike my plywood board) I can easily move it around the house by myself. -The thinness of the board, the way it folds up, the soft cover material, and the somewhat-grippy puzzle board fabric all combine to allow me to slide it under the guest bed when I need to move it out of the way temporarily, while still maintaining the then-current puzzle status. Cons: -It’s bigger than expected with the flaps folded out, so I wasn’t able to put it where I had originally intended. I ended up laying it on a rarely-used twin guest bed and it stretches the full length of the bed. -Despite the board being bigger than expected with the flaps out, the flaps can’t really be used for completed portions of the puzzle (due to the folds in the board), so the board as a whole will only fit a 1500-piece puzzle. I wish they sold one that fit a 2000-piece puzzle. All in all, despite this puzzle board’s limitation to 1500-piece puzzles, I would definitely recommend it!

The Portapuzzle 1500 is great. It has allowed us to work on some very large and complicated puzzles custom made for us by Stave Puzzles in Vermont. We could rarely do them until now because they take up the whole dining room table. It can take us a week or longer to complete the larger puzzles and we cannot be without the table that long. Now we can lay it out and work on it at our leisure. If we need the table, we just fold it up and put it away. The removable side surfaces are very handy both as storage and sorting space and to allow one person to take part of a puzzle to another room to work on. The cloth surface has just about the right amount of stickiness. The pieces slide easily, but do not slide if the board is tilted slightly. If it were just a little stickier, it would be even better. I do have two suggestions, but the product works so much better than the old corkboards we have been using for years, that I just couldn’t rate it down. 1. The half-size inserts for the flaps are great. They are just a little too flexible. Make them stiffer. They are too floppy to use on a lap and if any part of them extends over the edge of a table, any bump acts like a catapult tossing pieces into the air. 2. Offer extra half-size inserts for sale as add-ons. We have several very large puzzles and could use another side surface or two. They would also provide more thickness when the unit is closed, which would keep the pieces in place better when stood on its side.

I have had this 1500 piece capacity PortAPuzzle for almost a year. We travel in a motorhome and it fits perfectly on the dinette table. It’s well made with non-sliding fabric. It actually slid off the motorhome table while driving and fell in the floor. It was closed and did slide off on its shorter edge. When I opened it, the pieces needed very little adjustment. I can open/close and carry this by myself. It’s substantially weighed to hold up well but not so heavy that a single person cannot move it like a lot of the wood keepers. The hook and loop (Velcro) on the flaps really stick together and are sometimes a challenge to pull apart. But so far I have not had to replace it. The outer shell is a nice acrylic/canvas fabric. I would buy this again and have recommended it to friends for a portable option.

I absolutely love my Portapuzzle!! There's only one reason I didn't give it 5 stars and that's because it doesn't have a handle. Surely they could figure out a way to put a handle on it. It would make it much easier to carry around. Still, that's minor compared to everything I love about it. It's very well made. The material seems high quality and thick, I don't think I'll ever wear it out. I was worried about the Velcro when I ordered it because Velcro can wear out pretty quick but I don't think this will be wearing out any time soon. It grabs and holds so that it sometimes takes a couple tugs to loosen it and it's a thick strip, again high quality. The material on the inside is equally well made and feels soft to the touch, I like the way it feels. I was worried it might be a cheap felt and I hate the feel of felt, but no worries there. This is almost like a suede or something. The color is perfect too, it makes the puzzle pieces easy to see. Some people mentioned a wrinkle in the material down the middle so I'll address that as well. It's not really a wrinkle, it's an indention from where the two separate boards meet and it's been stored like that with no puzzle in it. To prevent that, maybe they should store it with a thin piece of cardboard or something between the work area and the two separate boards that lay on top. But the puzzle does lay flat across it, it doesn't make any of the pieces protrude or anything. And the one thing that really had me and others worried when ordering it, it does keep the puzzle safe and secure inside while carrying it. I've heard conflicting reviews on this but I've had absolutely no trouble. I carried it around (vertically) when I had only the outline done and all throughout the process of putting the puzzle together, it didn't slip an inch! In fact, put the puzzle where you want it when you first begin because you're not going to be able to slide it around at all (I tried once, it won't budge). Now, I will say that when I first started putting the puzzle together and so had a lot of loose pieces on the two separate boards that come with it, they did slip a little bit when I carried it vertically, maybe an inch. They kind of bunched up a bit (not one on top of the other or anything but they did slide down). That wasn't as much of an issue as I had less pieces on those two boards. BUT, the puzzle itself didn't move a centimeter when carried around. Now, when I pick up the Portapuzzle, I don't just grab it and let it fall into a vertical position. I grab it at the top and bottom and gently lower it into a vertical position and then carry it by the top. I don't swing it around and bump it against things. Also, I suggest you don't grab it by the sides and carry it. I've found that causes it to bow a little bit and the loose puzzle pieces slide more when you do it that way. Grab it by the top and bottom. I use it on a 37" square table and the part of the Portapuzzle that you work on comes right to the sides of the table so that when I open it, I allow the two wings to hang down. That was something else I was worried about. I knew I didn't have a big enough table to put it on and use it with the wings out flat and I was worried I might eventually crack it or wear it out if I constantly allowed those wings to hang down but, again, my fears were needless. It's material there (thick material like a canvas) and you can position the wings up, to the sides, flat, or down without worrying about wearing them out. The working part and the wings are nice and stiff but they do have a little give to them so you'd probably have trouble just sitting this on your lap, it would bow a little. It would be too big anyway. You need to work on something flat. All in all, I'm pleasantly surprised by the Portapuzzle and won't hesitate to order one for a friend. I'm thrilled I didn't spend $129 on a Jigsort which I was seriously considering. No, the Portapuzzle is half the price and is high quality and does an excellent job holding the puzzle secure. Don't hesitate to order this!!

Being able to quickly and easily pack up an in-progress puzzle without messing anything up is everything, as is being able to move the whole thing off the table and under a couch or bed. The material is perfect, smooth but not slippery. Pieces move nicely across the fabric. I haven't experienced any ripples in the fabric. The jumbo size can accommodate all of my 1000, 1500, and 2000 piece puzzles - anything up to 34 x 24 will allow for a bit of space all the way around. Be sure to check the underside of the two detached sorting surfaces when moving them as pieces can stick. Not a problem, just something to be aware of. It's fairly sturdy and might be tight enough when packed up, but I still haven't tried storing upright (not flat) with loose pieces. And I can't really image working on anything but a firm surface that fits the whole thing laid out flat, including both sides. It's great to be able to use the table for puzzling and dining intermittently throughout the day.

I enjoy puzzles, but I don’t have space to do them except on my dining room table. This case solves this problem by allowing me to work on puzzles and then easily fold everything up and put it away when I’m done. The XL size fits a 1,000 piece puzzle with room to spare. The felt backing keeps the pieces from sliding around a lot when it’s moved. It is true, as other reviewers have pointed out, that the case does not defy gravity, so it must be stored more or less flat when a puzzle is in progress or all the loose pieces will fall to the bottom. Also, it’s made of cardboard and fabric, so I would be worried that storing it on its side could result in warping. I solve this by storing it under a bed. Just be sure to let family members know not to move it onto its side, or someone else’s helpful tidying could have tragic consequences.

When you velcro it all up it holds all the pieces in tightly with the fold up edges. So provides the safe container for a puzzle in flight that I am forced to move out of the way just as I needed. The included mats grip the pieces well. Overall a great buy. I've done four 1000 piece puzzles on it and one was very tight to the edge of the puzzle area. But most had plenty of room. About the only downside is that being a lighter color and grippy material, it is a visible dust and hair magnet.

I bought a 1000 piece puzzle for the family to do over the holidays. There wasn’t room to designate an extra table just for the puzzle. I needed the mat to be portable, as we needed the table for meals. I looked at a bunch of portable mats and I’m very happy with my purchase. It’s ready to go right out of the box. It’s well designed, not heavy but rigid enough so you can easily move your puzzle from room to room with no pieces falling out, soft enough that it lays flat on your table. All the pieces fit well it has extra smaller mats for organization. The mat fits easily under a couch or tucked away while you are not using it. The top half can fold back on itself, taking up less space on your tabletop. The surface had just a bit of texture so that your pieces stay in place and don’t shift. Highly recommend.

Calidad muy alta en los acabados, las dos bandejas son muy utiles para colocar las piezas, y al ser de una tela un poco aspera, evita que las piezas se deslizen y se pierdan. El cierre es de mucha calidad y evita que se muevan las piezas en el trasnporte. Como algo a mejorar yo le pondria unas asas para facilitar el agarre y el transporte.

Chi ha poco spazio in casa sa che scomodità sia avere un puzzle da 1500 pezzi in giro.. io potrei appoggiarlo solo sul tavolo, con la logica conseguenza di non avere più uno spazio dove mangiare! Senza considerare il rischio di perdere i pezzi se il puzzle rimane lì qualche giorno. Dopo aver valutato varie ipotesi, tra cui anche i rotoli di feltro per arrotolare il puzzle, ho optato per questo porta puzzle, un po' costoso in effetti, ma davvero utilissimo! Si apre a cartellina, dentro trovate due ulteriori ripiani per dividere i pezzi del puzzle. Quando lo richiudete mettete i ripiani sopra alla parte di puzzle completata, lasciate pure gli altri pezzi sui ue piani e richiudete il tutto. A questo punto, una volta ben chiuso, può essere appoggiato anche ad un muro, occupando così pochissimo spazio, non si muoverà nemmeno un pezzo all'interno! Per me è stato davvero la salvezza, così posso richiudere il puzzle e liberare il tavolo. Comodi anche i due piani aggiuntivi su cui appoggiare i pezzi che si stanno lavorando al momento. La chiusura è in velcro e tiene molto bene. Unica nota non del tutto positiva: poteva essere un pochino più rigido il piano su cui poggia il puzzle finito, così da essere più stabile nel trasporto... invece è un po' leggerino e tende a piegarsi, ma il puzzle dentro rimane integro, nessun problema! Volendolo migliorare io aggiungerei una maniglia per trasportarlo più comodamente, ma non è indispensabile. Per me è un ottimo prodotto, utile e pratico, sicuramente la soluzione per chi ha poco spazio. Contiene perfettamente puzzle standard fino a 1500 pezzi (quello che vedete misura 80 cm per 60 cm). Costa un po', € 37,80, ma secondo me li vale tutti, io lo ricomprerei senza dubbio, consigliato!

Gelijk in gebruik genomen heeft wel veel ruimte nodig maar goed weer op te ruimen sluit goed af.

Having always used the roll up style mats I had trouble convincing myself to buy this, but its been worth every penny. No longer are we limited to the dining table or living room floor when we want to do a jigsaw, the rigidity of this mat makes puzzling an anywhere activity. The 2 removable mats are great for working on smaller sections and organising pieces. We've even used them to have 2 puzzles on the go at the same time (they'll hold a 500 piece nicely. The lining is easy to clean which is ideal if, like us, you have pets... Where dog hairs used to fuse themselves to the felt roll up, they just brush straight off this one. My only slight gripe is that it didn't quite take a 1500 piece. At least not the one we did. The working area of the main mat has a height of 60cm, our 1500 piece was 66. Luckily the extra 2 pull out mats let us make the bottom rows separately so we still managed to complete it. Packing away is easy and the pieces seem to stay in place no matter how carelessly I sling it under the bed when we're done. If you're a keen puzzler then this is a must have. Maybe just go a size up if you're planning on doing a 1500+ piece regularly.

Très pratique pour ranger le puzzle non terminé