I think anyone that puts this together in 3 hr or less deserves a metal. It took us a week doing 3-6 hours a day, with at least 5 people helping us to put this thing together. Puttinng the back on was a bear not to mention the doors. Once together it is very nice and well put together, not just because we did it. You can get an optional illusion looking at the board and trying to deside if you are looking at the top or the bottom and what hole is what. Never again will we try to put something like this together. We must be getting too old for this.