7th Puzzeliade Hotton

Sunday 28 January 2018 : 7th Puzzeliade of Hotton

2018 is here and we are back for a new puzzling season, which starts as every year with the Puzzeliade in the city of Hotton. The same SWAT team is here to participate to the 8 hours contest (Cathy, Patrick with Vanessa & Pierre).

This year the competition is off to a flying start, with a 1.000 pieces jigsaw puzzle, which is a bit hard for more "relaxed" teams, as some of them will spend most of their time only trying to complete this one…

The second puzzle is still a 1.000 pieces but a bit easier, we will take this as a welcomed pause before the next one : there we are a bit disappointed, because we already had this 1.500 pieces jigsaw puzzle in a previous contest. Moreover I had it done again at home not so long ago… Despite the "experience" in this puzzle, assembling it still seems to take at long time…

Then comes a 1.000 pieces representing New York, in general our team is not bad for this type of puzzle and in less than 2 hours it’s completed. There is only 30 minutes left for the last 500 pieces puzzle, which we are unfortunately unable to finish, we are missing 10mn !

This year, no food gift basket for the winners, we “only” get to choose a puzzle for our prize. I believe this year the organization had more difficulties in finding sponsors, but anyway it was still a very nice competition. What will happen next year? Because everybody agreed that the first two puzzles would be mixed together before being handed over to the We are puzzled ! … Will this be a handicap? We will demonstrate otherwise  🙂