Quite a few puzzles I recognize from the competitions. The Shell Collector was in one of the preliminary rounds as a choice of 4 if I remember correctly. Nice haul and good luck making them!

@MadaraBePuzzling

Ай бұрын

Yeah I think that's why it stood out when I saw it. I looked back to worlds puzzles and yeah it was in prelim B. Was apparently one if the fastest puzzles between both prelims so I have high hopes 😊

Good guess for the mystery puzzle 😅

@MadaraBePuzzling

18 күн бұрын

Hahaha yeah. I didn't show it on the haul but I did look at the catalogue later and saw the hedgehog puzzle as an option! Didn't help me much with the solve though 😅

By the way, Ravensburger 500 piece "Loving Longhorns" is also in the smaller box.

@MadaraBePuzzling

20 күн бұрын

Just looked it up and that's a very cute image sadly not available in Spain. Dunno why I haven't managed to find most of these newer edition puzzles. At least I managed to get the Bridgerton 500 piece one! Looking forward to solving it 😊

I don't think Ravensburger will use large format puzzles at Worlds because they take up more space and people will be sharing tables. I recently purchased Circle of Colors Astrology. It was used in round B Pairs prelim of 2024 Canadian Nationals. (Circle of Colors Seashells was used in Pairs round A). I've only done Circle of Colors Flowers which has a white background. I think Astrology's dark background will be harder to do. I'm not a speed puzzler but I like puzzling and watching puzzle contests.

@MadaraBePuzzling

22 күн бұрын

Aaah your totally right! I didn't even think about that it's just that I've seen them use bigger formats in some USA competitions. Oh the round ones I enjoy but I struggle a lot with spatial awareness with them. Does that happen to you? Unless I build the whole edge I have to make quite a lot for it to make sense. I've got the Insect one from the black background series and that one to me was quite tricky.

@jmason1770

22 күн бұрын

@@MadaraBePuzzling I've only done a couple 300 piece round puzzles and one 500 piece round. I did the edges first. One of the things I like about round is that it's easy for me to turn it around if needed. I have limited space so it's harder for me to turn around a rectangle puzzle. I hadn't notice any large format puzzle being used in USA contests that I've seen. I've only seen the Nationals and Winter Carnival contest in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Winter Carnival contest was sponsored by Puzzle Twist so they used there brand. The puzzles didn't see any bigger than Ravensburgers but I didn't check. Note: Karen Puzzles has recaps of Winter Carnival puzzle contest on her channel.

@MadaraBePuzzling

22 күн бұрын

@@jmason1770 I think it was a competition from last year as I am watching Kyle Kosin on twitch. He is quite good and places pretty high and he was talking about it on his stream. I also watch Karen! That's how I got into speed puzzling! I watched her worlds 2023 recap and got super into it so here we are 😊

@jmason1770

22 күн бұрын

@@MadaraBePuzzling I don't watch Twitch so I'm not familiar with Kyle. I'm looking forward to watching the Worlds livestream in September.

@MadaraBePuzzling

22 күн бұрын

@@jmason1770 cool maybe you'll see me as I'll be participating representing Latvia 🎉