Hi everyone!! I’ve been working on this puzzle for a few days now, and I’m feeling extremely overwhelmed and defeated because I don’t know what to focus on. I’ve had it for two years and tried working on it thrice and gave up each time after completing the edges. I wanna finish it by the end of June hopefully, but I have no clue what to do. 

I completed the edges and the border and title. I have the pieces sorted like this: blue pieces, red pieces, pieces with letters on them, pieces of countries, plain pieces, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, and pieces that don’t fit into any of these categories. It took me hours to organize them and I’d prefer not to re-sort them. 

I tried to focus on the red pieces and then on the blue/green pieces but gave up because all the ones I found were had no connection points yet and were just floating on the table. Now, I’m thinking of doing the countries then the circular outline but all the outline pieces are in different categories so I’m unsure how to move forward.

If anyone has any tips please let me know. I’ve completed around 20 1k puzzles and I usually sort them based on area or color, but I feel like there’s no point here. I don’t have enough room to lay all the pieces out at the same time. 

Thank you !!!!

Ravensburger “Antique World Map” 5000 pieces