Want more from Nationals? Check out the competition recap here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/YoGgzNWTYLGxgqQ.html

Puzzler logic: “That was a long and stressful day of doing puzzles, let’s do a giant puzzle to relax!” 😂😂😂

Fun fact - this is actually the 4th largest puzzle in the world! The only three bigger than it are: 3. Martin Puzzle - 52,110 (comes pre-assembled, so you could break it up into however many sections you want) 2. Travel Around Art by Grafika - 54,000 pieces (27 sections of 2,000 pieces each) 1. What a Wonderful World by Dowdle - 60,000 pieces (60 sections of 1,000 pieces each) Which one should we do at the next Nationals?

@katehayward2822

8 күн бұрын

I really feel like there should be a casual competition for the 60,000 piece puzzle. 60 teams of 1000 pieces each. Just for fun.

@ayeshariyaz9355

8 күн бұрын

I have done the Travel Around Art puzzle and there are huge "white" areas. The Dowdle Puzzle looks easier and has more units...

@tracybowling1156

8 күн бұрын

#1 of course! 😊

@francescathomas3502

8 күн бұрын

Donna Louise from "For the Love of Puzzles" in New Zealand has done the Travel Around Art by Grafika puzzle. She even put it up on Full Display in a public studio in her city!!

@CountanceD

7 күн бұрын

@@KarenPuzzles I’m working on the Dowdle puzzle. 34,000 pieces down!

She's like Scrooge McDuck bathing in coins, just with puzzle pieces 😅

I don't know why but this made me so happy watching this video. It made me cry watching all these people come together for a common cause putting this puzzle together

@alchemyqueen2764

8 күн бұрын

I love when that happens in @karenpuzzles videos. Sometimes she touches my heart in just the right way. I'm glad I'm not the only one. 🙂

@davidsix4553

8 күн бұрын

I grinned and chuckled many times watching this video. Time to open my next puzzle.

@azlinothman9795

8 күн бұрын

I can't speed puzzling. But i would love to join on the giant puzzle. How fun.

@jasmint3207

8 күн бұрын

It's so nice!

@jasmint3207

8 күн бұрын

I would love to go to a puzzling event that's not about speed.

"This is why we can't put a microphone on you during competitions." - Naah, this is exactly why we'd like a microphone on Sarah during competitions! 😆

@SarahDoesPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

😈😈😈😈😈

Ok hear me out, Karen gets married and instead of throwing confetti or rice it’s puzzle pieces 🧩

@bebenut123

7 күн бұрын

That definitely crossed my mind too! But maybe made out of something lighter than cardboard!!

The image you made of how many “you’s” it takes to make the length of the puzzle cracked me up 😂 this was one of my favorite parts of the puzzle competition video I’m so glad you gave it its own spotlight!

@jlilley73

8 күн бұрын

I'm very sad for the Karen who was cut in pieces -- and wondering what happened to her remaining 5%? 😆

I was honored to put the last puzzle piece in this humongous puzzle. No more blue skies for me!😂

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

You’re the hero of this puzzle!

You know, it's really cool how something as initially innocuous as jigsaw puzzles ends up having such a strong, friendly, and fun community. I never would've expected that when I first started watching your videos, but now I know better! Even if I'm not generally a social or community person, it does my heart a lot of good knowing that the community _is_ there for people who get a lot of value out of it. This was a great vid. ♥

That ending must have felt so cathartic after an entire weekend of intense puzzling! Had a wide grin on my face the entire time from the joy spreading from the video.

I’m so glad you made more about the monster puzzle . Sounds like a great way to meet lots of people. I’d have definitely joined in.

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

It definitely makes it easier to chat since you have a common activity 😊

@rachrbonez1335

8 күн бұрын

i wish i was there just to help with the monster puzzle.

Watching the speed puzzlers cheer for the other puzzlers finishing their sections was so wholesome 🥹

I don't really do puzzles and have never had any particular attachment to them, but the hobby and the passion Karen and others have for it is just so wholesome that I've been watching this channel for years.

Sarah getting absolutely bamboozled with pieces just made me laugh so hard 😂😂

16:50 Sarah being chaotic as usual and picking butt pieces made me laugh so hard 🤣💜

@SarahDoesPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

😈 hehehehehe

@AseGarcia

8 күн бұрын

@@SarahDoesPuzzleshey! You are awesome 😄

The group effort on that 4k is amazing. A puzzle friend and I took on a 3k over 4 or 5 meetups (she did some sorting in between...my puzzle, but her house) and it is the largest I have attempted so far. $2 thrift store find that was only missing a knob on one piece, everything else was there. We even kept it assembled in small sections when we finished and used your demonstration of removing a row to move sections and sizec them for the box. It was the Nickelodeon Aquarius (so much yellow!). I also have the 40k...a $100 marketplace find from a moving military family who had been toting it around for years and realized it was better to just buy another copy of they ever had the space to put it together instead of using their limited packing allotment continuing to take it all over the world (seriously, the puzzle has seen more of the world than I have). One day, maybe I'll be brave enough, but the fact remains that I was never going to find it for $100 again if I didn't grab that deal!

Nothing permanent was produced? Well, there is this legendary video.

this puzzle is doable solo if you want. 27 puzzles at 1900 pieces. just need to complete one puzzle a week. 27 weeks out of 52. but the glaring issue is, where do you store the puzzle in between. 6 months of stacking puzzles is a lot of room. sometimes when the math says you can do it sometimes it might not be wise to do it.

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

It's definitely doable by one person and there are a lot of news articles about people who have done it. But I doubt one person could do it in 3 days!

@YaaLFH

8 күн бұрын

All these puzzles are doable solo, because they're not one huge puzzle but a set of smaller ones. While working on it, even the Kodak puzzle takes less space than you think - just stack the finished puzzles on foamboards under your bed or sofa. The only problem is having space to put all the puzzles together.

Idea for a new new-years-eve tradition: finish a giant puzzle over the year, pick it up at midnight between the years, and then celebrate using it as confetti.

There's something just so sweet and wholesome about seeing this many people come together for a common cause. Even if the cause is just a giant puzzle that you destroy in the end. 😂

my friend works in a toy store and they have the giant disney puzzle out!! and it’s taken… so long. she told me they’ve done just snow white and they’re working on peter pan and it’s been like, a year. as someone who’s worked on the snow white, it’s soo validating to hear you call it hard!!

I think the 'Karen' ahould be a standard unit of measurement now 😂😂😂

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

People outside of this channel would have a much different definition for that 😂

@itsmephil2255

8 күн бұрын

@@KarenPuzzles that's true, but I still think it's a viable option 😂😂 I'm going to use it from now on 😂

@patrickhanft

8 күн бұрын

@@KarenPuzzles I think you'd be still be a much better measuring unit than a "Smoot". Many more people have an idea about what a "Karen" looks like.

@janesmith5967

8 күн бұрын

How tall are you? About 1.25 Karens. 🤣

@itsmephil2255

8 күн бұрын

@@janesmith5967 more like just under 2 Karen's give or take 😂😂

Sarah doing the puzzle angel was so adorable.

I absolutely love the idea of a convention pass! I am still way to slow for the competition but I would still love to participate in the event. That looks like so much fun.

after how many glases of wine someone was swimming in puzzlepieces ? 😂

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

I will say that I personally only had a very small glass of wine (and that's why the footage is so coherent). I can't speak for everyone else in the room 😂

It is still amazing of how much the puzzle community has gotten closer over the course of past few years. Sure there is the competitive side during competition as there should be but after the timer is done, you all seem to be great friends.

I have the 18,000 piece Ravensburger "Tropical Impressions" and they are NOT for the casual puzzler. They are difficult! I have started one section and the green edge banding is all the same color, so many false fits that I am not surprised they could not complete this puzzle in a weekend. The cut on this puzzle is not the typical Ravensburger puzzle pieces. The cardboard is a bit thinner, and the pieces have more of the two in's and two out's than a typical Ravensburger puzzle. I've completed two different 5,000 piece Ravensburger puzzles and they didn't have the difficulty of the 18,000 puzzles.

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

That's true, they have to use a special process to make the really huge ones. You saw all the trouble I had with the end of the Zodiac puzzle last summer 🤦🏻‍♀️

@lorettajakubiec8824

7 күн бұрын

I gave up on the green border, too many false fits. Life is too short.

I wonder how many puzzle-piece angels have ever been made, in the whole world. I mean... how often does the chance even come along?

We definitely brought one of those last sections down to work on during the closing ceremonies so we didn't have to miss either. So much sky!!! Also what a great group of puzzlers to work on that Disney section! You all made amazing progress.

Everyone needs a Sarah! 🥰. Oh! And a Karen to film it all! 😄😄

I love the idea of hotel security just watching a bunch of puzzlers get wine drunk on cctv and destroy the massive puzzle they’ve spent the weekend on and have a ‘puzzle’ fight 😂 Also I collect the 1000 piece variants of that Disney puzzle and have dnf’d 2 because of how hard they are. Some have no differentiation between pieces and massive blocks of black/dark blue. Can’t imagine trying to do it at 4x the scale

Aw, and you worked on Prague section, that makes me so happy, our country is so tiny and we rarely got puzzles with any of our cities or architecture.

Yay! You’re at almost 300,000 subs now! I subbed about 150,000 ago, & I love watching your numbers keep going up! It was also heart warming today to watch all of you puzzlers working together with such joy & camaraderie. You cracked me up with the graphic for how many Karens long the puzzle was! 😂

play it backwards Play It Backwards PLAY IT BACKWARDS 20:16 Yesss!!!!

Thank you for the inspiration at the end; I'm looking to get more involved in the puzzling community and this strikes a chord for me in terms of the types of things I'm looking for.

Really fun to watch! Excellent Vid🎉🎉🎉

John from "Puzzle Me This" combined the 42,000 piece educa puzzle together and is still solving 18 months along. He has posted a video once a month to document his progress. Watching him dump all the pieces into a bin in the beginning was mind-blowing. It has been quite a journey. There are some very interesting strategies implemented along the way. If anyone is considering a challenge of this nature, I recommend watching his channel.

Guinness book of records: Best Puzzle Angels

Thank-you for keeping the up the long-held tradition of "banana for scale". 😆 I worry that one day, this knowledge will be lost to time. I saw the clips you included of this at the back of your Nationals vids, but it's nice to see it receive a further in-depth treatment.

Loved your little speech at the end 😊😊😊

... it rained? 🤣

I literally went Oooo out loud when I saw your new upload.

Puzzling is such a wholesome hobby. You all seem like a lovely bunch of people.

I really hope, that one time everybody would overcome their "Neuschwanstein" obsession, when it comes to interesting landmarks of Germany. There are just so many more interesting places than this not-so-really-old-and-relevant "toy" castle built by a rather not-so-really-reasonable Bavarian king. I'm really jealous to all the other countries represented on this one.

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

Somehow Neuschwanstein has become the mascot of jigsaw puzzles everywhere 😂

Watching the competition portion is definitely fun and exciting, but I think I like this better, seeing all those puzzle enthusiasts (puzzlers?) coming together to solve this mammoth of a puzzle brings me so much joy.

It's area is7.125 Karens squared.

I love the longer version of this section! Its just so happy! 🎉

I wish I had friends puzzlers😂 I think it would be so cool to buy a huge puzzle and get together for a puzzling party like 1-2 times in a month. The puzzle will be ready in a year or two😅 but how many new memories we could have!

This is such a happy video! Love it!

I love the fact that there was a Kodak theme puzzle.

10:17 I cackled, that's so funny! 😂

You are all having so much fun. I love this!

The chaos at the end is great

This had to become a video. Such an iconic end to the Championships!

That giant puzzle lift was so impressive!!!

One of my top favorite videos that I’ve seen on this channel so far. Loved it!❤❤❤❤

You crazy puzzle nerds …… I love it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I already said it in the nationals video, this was such a well thought out event, done with so much love and loving details. 🥰 Thank you for doing this video, and letting us take part at least for a bit. Also, did someone just cut onions or something?

I'm not from any of those places (or even countries) on that puzzle, but I AM currently watching this in Venice on holiday. So I shall claim the Venice section anyways! I love your competition videos, they're so much fun. As soon as I am back home I'm gonna solve a puzzle on time to see how I'll do - maybe I'll sign up for worlds just to see for myself how it is!

10:12 americans will use anything but the metric system

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

Karen system >>> metric system

The reverse summoning back of the puzzle at the end was EPIC!!!

I wanna go be silly with a bunch of adults 😂

Very fun video! You all had so much fun. ❤

I really like your crew of people.

Would have been the first to offer to keep it haha So relaxing to see the enjoyment you guys had with it ❤

more than a puzzle. it's a safe space community for fun. love this

The convention pass is such a great idea!! This is for ALL puzzles, not just speed puzzles. I love that!!

What a great group! This made me very happy!

Yes! Was hoping for a new video! ❤

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

You're first! (Besides my comments)

@checktheherbsbaby

8 күн бұрын

I love your content so much! Thank you for it! You are the person who really inspired me to get into puzzling! I have backwatched so many of your videos even the ones you did for HGTV and just loved them as well! Can't wait for more videos! 💖

Great video as usual

Neuschwanstein castle has to be the most used image for a jigsaw ever.

@KarenPuzzles

4 күн бұрын

The unofficial mascot of jigsaw puzzles 😂

Such a big puzzle 🎉🎉 and so many people working on it. That is a very fun and special activity 🥰🥰

The joy of all people participating is so heartwarming 😊

what a FANTASTIC way to end a competitive weekend with a fun collaboration! and destroying it must have been so satisfying too! Though, kinda sad it wasn't framed and signed by all the people that worked on it to show off at the next event. I really love the idea of the convention pass! Maybe I'll actually go one year now as a non-competitive puzzler

This makes me feel like I can complete this puzzle...

next time you get a giant puzzle like that, you ***need*** to try holding it up intact, and getting someone to run through it

I watched that long video, many congrats, WAHOO!!!

This is just pure puzzle joy🙂

I work at Goodwill and I found and old, circular, Springbok puzzle that was selling for $200 on eBay. The only reason I knew to check the value is because I watch your videos. So, thanks!

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

Amazing!

I love the puzzler community you are apart of!

That puzzle pickup… how much wine did y’all have at that point?? 😂😂😂

Kodak puzzles have beautiful color. I have worked a few 1,000 pc ones.

It would be fun to do each section separately but in 1000 piece sections lol

You all had fun! That is what it is about!

Again a beautiful, fun, happy, friendly video! We will participate on the Dutch championships next year. I'm so curious how it will be!!!

That giant puzzle looked so fun!

So what happened to the 51300 piece puzzle at the end? Did someone take it home? Will they attempt to build it from mixed pieces?

Death by puzzle 😂🤣😂🤣

I did make it to the end on the other video, enjoyed this more in-depth peek. ❤

a wind-induced puzzle-fight (a la snow-fight) is amazing

Loved working on this one! Next time, let’s do it in world record time

First, I watch all videos to the end because I sometimes find interesting suggested puzzles. Yes, I have DNF'd vids but waaay before the end. I think you all had they greatest time! And it was wonderful that people like me, who just like to puzzle, got a chance to join in the fun! Great idea.

well worth a second vid. is it weird i woke up thinking about this?!

If I was there for the Disney puzzle you guys would for sure complete it. I’m from the uk so the London Bridge is my city. That kodac replay was so cool as you could see all the pieces together even though it broke my heart seeing it fall apart 😢😅

Kodac couldn’t find one wonder in Africa? Lol. Beautiful puzzles, so colourful

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

Definitely a note for if they ever make V2 of this puzzle 😬

@ThisIsMeMorgan

8 күн бұрын

Isn’t Egypt in Africa?

@sweetrupturedlight

8 күн бұрын

@@ThisIsMeMorgan in a word, no. Africa is an entire continent. Egypt is an African neighbour.

@SD-ed8is

8 күн бұрын

@ThisIsMeMorgan yes it is

@GuyWithTheDogs

8 күн бұрын

@@ThisIsMeMorgan The correct answer: Egypt is located in northeastern Africa with its Sinai Peninsula stretching into Western Asia.

I did enjoy the "the hotel staff wouldn't be happy if we left this on the floor [cut to kicking it all over the floor]" XD of course you did clean up but it was very funny. I wish I had the space to do those giant puzzles (and store them lol), they tickle my brain to see!

@KarenPuzzles

6 күн бұрын

They were in the room as we were cleaning it up 😂

This just makes me so happy! I love that you guys could break something that took so long!-idk if i could but im just rly impressed by everything!!!!!

The speed in which you guys place the pieces is really crazy to me. I'll be spending like 20 minutes trying to find the correct piece and then have it not fit T^T Anyway great video as always! ❣️

@KarenPuzzles

8 күн бұрын

It just takes a lot of practice 🤷🏻‍♀️

if one person tried to do this they'd have to do 5 pieces in place every second for 72ish hours straight