Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Piece by piece: Inside the rapid rise of competitive jigsaw puzzling Hunched over a table in a hotel conference room, 42-year-old ...

Australia's current national champion for jigsaw speed puzzling, Katrina Coleman, thinks her winning time at the last national competition was a bit slow. In 2022 she took first place by completing a ...

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(SOUTHERN COLORADO) — Forget everything you thought you knew about puzzling. “It’s like an adrenaline rush, it really is,” said Deb Smarsh, a speed puzzler. Speed puzzling is heating up across the ...

About 200 people took part in the solo puzzle competition on Saturday From idyllic rural scenes to bespoke pet designs, jigsaw puzzles are a perfect way to while away a lazy day – but for more than ...

The teams have names like Flippin’ Pieces, Getting Jiggy With It and The Puzzle Puff Girls, and they compete after hours in the office space of a puzzle factory. That’s right, the hottest new league ...

A quiet church in Monument was recently turned into a battleground of concentration and camaraderie. The first-ever speed jigsaw puzzling competition was held March 17, at Trinity Lutheran Church in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group works on an 18,240-piece Ravensburger puzzle for fun at the 2026 USA Jigsaw Nationals and Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, ...

Decisions have to be made fast: What’s the plan for sorting? By color? By texture? Pull out all the edges? This is speed puzzling, and teams have to decide quickly what is their best bet for turning ...

Tonight, we are highlighting some speedy hobbies, including a Merrimack teen who is burning up the speed cube circuit and also checking out some puzzle people who are competing for fun and speed. Plus ...

Hunched over a table in a hotel conference room, 42-year-old Yvonne Feucht snaps the final blue jigsaw piece into place, revealing a vibrant, beachy collage of San Diego landmarks. It took her just 54 ...

You might think of puzzling as leisurely, but it’s now a sport. I entered a national competition and discovered a passionate community A PhD student in Berkeley. A 12-year-old in Texas. A content ...