Piece-off - Speed Puzzling with Playful Pursuits

Welcome to Piece-off #18! Join a team and try your hand at speed puzzling - the top performers in each category go home with a prize!

🧩 CATEGORIES AND FORMAT:

• Teams (group of 4): Speed Puzzling (1000 pieces, 2.5 hours, top Team wins prizes)
• Teams tickets are to be bought per-person. All tickets include the cost of registration and the competition puzzle to take home.

🧩 TIME AND SCHEDULE:

10.45 AM: Teams check-in and briefing.

11.00 AM - 1.30 PM: Teams round.

1.30 PM - Teams prizes

🧩 RULES:

• Teams have 2.5 hours to complete a 1000 piece mystery puzzle.
• Puzzles will come boxed, with the pieces in sealed bags.
• Only letter openers, keys or other non-sharp objects may be used to open the plastic that covers the puzzle or seals on the puzzle boxes ; sharp objects like scissors or box cutters are not permitted.
• If, once the time has run out, competitors have not finished the puzzle, we will count the number of placed pieces, adding only groups of 3 or more pieces correctly joined together. Competitors will be ranked by the number of pieces they have placed.
• If pieces are missing/misplaced at the end of the puzzle, 5 seconds for each such piece will be added to the final time. If there are 2 or more adjacent missing pieces, no penalty will be applied as it is considered a manufacturing error.
• Tickets include registration and the cost of the competition puzzle - competitors take their puzzle home!

About Playful Pursuits

We are Bangalore’s first jigsaw puzzle meetup group, providing a space for puzzle enthusiasts to come together to solve jigsaws, swap and sell their puzzles, and compete in speed puzzling! We meet in-person every Monday and on the occasional weekend.