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The 2024 World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship is the fourth edition of the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships organized by the World Jigsaw Puzzle Federation (WJPF). [1] It is being held between 17 and 22 September in Valladolid , Spain .
The venue for this second World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship was the Cúpula del Milenio . The Championship included three events: team, pairs, and individual. Each event had a classification round and a grand final. Team event. Classification round (2 groups) Teams of 4 members make 2 jigsaw puzzles of 1000 pieces in a maximum period of 3 hours.
For competitors who have not finished the assigned puzzle(s) within the time limit, the remaining pieces are counted to determine position. [6] Team event: Teams of four complete multiple puzzles (1,000, 1,500 or 2,000 pieces) in the time limit. Pairs event: Two competitors complete a single puzzle (500 or 1,000 pieces) within a time limit.
A jigsaw puzzle (with context, sometimes just jigsaw or just puzzle) is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped interlocking and mosaicked pieces. Typically each piece has a portion of a picture, which is completed by solving the puzzle.
The design team produces each cutout style individually, most of the designs are unique "whimsy" jigsaw shapes. Whimsies are specially shaped pieces cut into puzzles "on a whim" by Victorian-era hand cutters, an era when jigsaw puzzles became a popular pastime. Wentworth retained this older style of manufacture, and is one of the remaining ...
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As soon as the puzzle was launched, an online community emerged devoted to solving it, centred on a mailing list [4] on which many ideas and techniques were discussed. It was soon realised that it was trivial to fill the board almost completely, to an "end-game position" where an irregularly-shaped void had to be filled with only a few pieces, at which point the pieces left would be the "wrong ...
In the late 1980s Gibsons Games released their first jigsaw puzzles, with images of aerial photographs of Britain and familiar landmarks. Fundamentally, the company prided itself on the high-quality jigsaw board, the packaging of the puzzle, and their excellent customer service, as well as pictures that evoked nostalgic memories for puzzle ...