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 ...

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 ...

The fastest jigsaw puzzlers in the West will face off in Portland this weekend for the inaugural Portland Jigsaw Masters, a three-day speed puzzling competition held Aug. 2-4. Starting Friday, some ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Ready to get kraken? Join us at Ocean View Brew Works for a special Puzzles & Pints: Octofest Edition! Forget the lederhosen and grab a puzzle, because we're putting an octopus-themed twist on the ...

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PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Dozen of competitors in Portland are turning up the pressure and racing against the clock in a fast-growing phenomenon: speed puzzling. The second annual Portland Jigsaw Masters ...

Want to get your blood pumping? Pull out a jigsaw puzzle. It works for Mari Black. A self-described thrill junkie, Black says she gets the rush she craves from completing jigsaw puzzles as fast as ...

Hundreds of people are now putting their speed to the test as the second annual Portland Jigsaw Masters kicked off Friday morning. Participants from across the country are speed puzzling to piece ...

This is a team speed puzzling competition. The competition will take place in two rounds and a winner will be declared at the end of the night and will receive a prize. Each team of four gets to take ...