Melissa & Doug Puzzle Storage Rack - Wire Rack Holds 12 Puzzles

After reading the mixed reviews for this puzzle organizer, I decided to purchase it with the hopes that it would work out. I'm so glad that I did. I have several Melissa and Doug puzzles, but not enough to fill it up yet. I have one puzzle with chunky pieces and it fits fine, but I do have it on the second to the top level. The rest of my puzzles have small pegs, and they fit beautifully. The fat noise-making puzzles do not fit, but I just stacked them on top of the organizer, and I'm fine with that. I stacked the puzzles in the top sections, leaving space for other learning toys stacked below. My bookshelf looks much more organized, and I'm hoping that my son enjoys the easy access to finding his puzzles!

This rack fits all of the puzzles that we have. The only downfall is that it doesn’t fit larger size puzzles, although they can be laid on top!

I love this puzzle racks because it keeps our ever-growing puzzle collection somewhat organized, and it fits on a bookshelf unlike the larger version (which can hold the jumbo puzzles). It fits all of our puzzles well except some of the chunky puzzles--and it's not because of the height (heck, you just skip a row), but because of the shape of the rack and placement of puzzle pieces on the board. The rods on the side slant inwards, so if a chunky puzzle pieces is in the top 2-3 square inches of the puzzle, it either won't go in all the way, or it can be forced a bit but then it warps the rest of the rack so the rest of the puzzles don't fit well. We have 3 chunky puzzles and only one causes this issue, but that 1 is enough to knock off a star; I think a storage puzzle rack should be compatible with all of M&D's smaller sized puzzles. Overall it's a steal and I would buy it again, but I hope this review helps someone else!

This puzzle storage rack is excellent. I just got it today, but am already loving the additional organization it provides.I currently have 7 puzzles in it, so it is not full.To address some questions and past reviewer complaints:1) Yes, the picture now matches the product you get.2) There are NO sharp edges or metal pieces, I think maybe that reviewer possibly got a bad one. I do not see how this would scratch up wood unless maybe you slide it back and forth a lot. The pieces of metal that touch the bottom surface are all rounded and smooth.3) It DOES hold peg puzzles and the big knob puzzles. I am attaching photos.The M&D puzzles that have the small plastic knobs fit perfectly, and you do not need to skip any rows.The M&D puzzles that have the large wooden knobs (baby's first puzzles) also fit, but you need to leave at least one row above empty.I have have a M&D gear puzzle sitting on top of the rack and because the metal supports protrude just a bit, it doesn't slide off.I honestly do not understand some of the more negative reviews. I also think people saying the knob puzzles don't work are referring to the wooden ones, and are expecting to be able to use every rack.Pictures: I took a few from different angles and stacking the puzzles differently.The two puzzles on the bottom have the colored small plastic pegs.The next two up are the magnetic fishing and bug catching puzzles. Note that they can be stored with the fishing/bug catching magnetic pole resting on top, and can still be stacked without leaving a space in between.The next puzzle up is a M&D farm animal giant wooden knob puzzle, it's barn-shaped and still fits in the rack. You can fit another puzzle on top if you leave one rack open in between. If you look at one of the pics, you can see leaving a single rack open, the knobs just touch the bottom of the next puzzle.The next puzzle is a custom-made name puzzle. I just slid it into the rack sideways. PerfectThe top puzzle in some of the pics is one of the M&D gear puzzles. These won't fit in the rack, but will sit perfectly on top without falling off.

This sounded like such a good idea and space saver for my son's puzzles. We have 3 Melissa and Doug puzzles and 2 other ones. This rack doesn't fit the Melissa and Doug ones.... Now the puzzles take up more space. Only keeping it because it was on sale and I'll find find more puzzles to fit it.