Poor quality pieces that do not stay connected.

I have dozens of White Mountain puzzles for a puzzle club that I run at school and have noticed the quality has been deteriorating lately. It used to be that you could work on a section of the puzzle, ease that section onto an index card and then slide it in and connect it to the larger puzzle. I can't do that with this puzzle. If you put together a section of say 6 pieces and then try to slide that chunk onto a card, they fall apart. It's just awful how loose they are. It ruined the fun of this one. Unfortunately, it seems they are going cheap now and the quality of these once great puzzles is going down. This is the second puzzle that I got recently that has such loosely connected pieces.

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