Jigsaw Puzzle, our passion.
Saturday 12th March 2016, took place in Barvaux-Durbuy
the annual jigsaw contest "PuzzleDay".
31 teams enrolled in the 8 hours competition, We are puzzled ! was there...
So this is it, a new contest has passed, and it was again a great day for puzzles’ fans.
Clementoni puzzles are of good quality so we already know we will have a good time during the 8 hours puzzle contest of Barvaux-Durbuy. But when in addition to that, the organizer manages to get puzzles with varied size, shape and images, it’s just perfect! The organizer is so nice, and always available for all participants. There were prizes for everybody, as well as medals and trophies for the best ones. The music was in general at a good volume, and as an extra each team got a plate with some appetizers directly brought to their table!
We started the competition with a 500 pieces puzzle quite easy, representing a mouse in its home while the cat is on the watch… We are puzzled ! was probably still sleeping because our timing was not very good and we were some minutes behind the first team.
Then we had a panoramic 1000 pieces puzzle with Disney characters, and the gap was a bit increased. When we finished our Minions round puzzle of 213 pieces we were still behind.
The next puzzle was triptych of London photos, 500 pieces each part. We had to present the 3 parts assembled, and we decided to start all 3 puzzles at the same time instead of being the four of us completing the same puzzle one after the other: this allowed us to not bother one each other and to better distribute the tasks. I believe this tactic was the good one as we managed to finish our 3 puzzles before the team that had been ahead of us until then, and after that we were able to keep our advantage for the rest of the contest, while successively completing two 1000 pieces puzzles until getting to the…
Impossible puzzle of this year !!! This time there were no Minions, but hundreds of Olafs from the Disney movie Frozen… Thanks God there were "only" two hours left, just the time to sort the pieces, finish the frame, and find a "path" to link the edge to the princesses heads from the center, so those pieces would be part of the final counting…
20mn before the end, we finally did it and our victory shout must have destabilized our challengers because they hid their table so we could not see their progress… Maybe they were hoping that we would relax the pressure if we thought they had not done it too, but they do not know that our aim is not to win, but to do the best we can! This is why we kept up adding some pieces here and there until the end.
Finally we won the competition thanks to the 25 pieces we had more than the team who finished second. We won a 6.000 puzzle and a 2.000 puzzle. Plus the same 500 pieces puzzle for each team member, as well as a trophy and a medal that we always like to get!
Puzzles from the contest:
This year, Sophie and Patrice de Goncourt were present
and they have participated to the competition through their team Novabysse.
They were only two, but they finished third! Even though Sophie was absent for a moment in order to participate to the individual contest ; in fact she finished last but one as there were only 20mn left on the time clock; you won’t see very often such a bad result, so enjoy the news 🙂 Anyway their talent continues to amaze us…
This edition’s results portend a strong competition during the 12 hours Puzzle contest of Arlon on the 19th March… But it’s with great pleasure that we will put our leader’s position up for grabs, this is what makes it more interesting for all of us.
Kittens, 500 p.
Meanwhile, as Saturday had been such a perfect day, we wanted to put a little bit of competition in the air again on Sunday: so by pairs (We are puzzled ! vs Novabysse), we assembled the 500 pieces puzzles we had won the day before ; no surprise, Novabysse finished first their puzzle in 40 minutes, we had to add 6 small additional minutes to finish ours…
Usefull links:
http://puzzleday.weebly.com
http://www.clementoni.com
