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You might think of puzzling as leisurely, but it’s now a sport. I entered a national competition and discovered a passionate community ...

(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 ...

Competitive puzzling blends skill, speed, and strategy into an adrenaline-filled experience. From jigsaws to Sudoku, elite solvers use scanning patterns, pattern recognition, and efficient workflows ...

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 ...

Tonight, we are highlighting some speedy hobbies, including a Merrimack teen who is burning up the speed cube circuit and also checking out some puzzle people who are competing for fun and speed. Plus ...

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 ...

Speed Puzzling is the newest sport to hit town! Lane and Andrew Weatherly from Portland Puzzle Company joined us share how they got into making jigsaw puzzles, how they create them and why speed ...

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 ...

Speed puzzling blends smart strategies, observation skills, and efficient movement to complete puzzles faster without losing the joy of the process. From building the border first to switching ...