World record for 300 piece puzzle
"Pure Pleasure": Guinness World Records Holders Solve EscapeWelt Puzzles
Guinness World Record holders have solved puzzles from EscapeWelt and have given them high praise. They particularly highlighted the idea and the quality of execution of the puzzles.
Meet Peter Schubert - the 'Puzzle King' from Germany – who first assembled the world's largest puzzle: a 54,000-piece puzzle named "Travel Around Art".
Peter has solved
Quest puzzle
and
Labyrinth puzzle
from EscapeWelt. He emphasized the originality and complexity of our puzzle ideas as well as the quality of their execution.
"In summary, I really enjoyed these wooden puzzles. Pure enthusiasm! I was also impressed by the high quality of each puzzle piece. Although I am a puzzle expert, both were a real challenge for me. Thumbs up for both puzzles, the EscapeWelt team has come up with something very beautiful. Best regards from me, Peter."
Luisa Figueiredo - the owner of the largest puzzle collection (1047 puzzles) – has been recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records three times. She still holds the record! The Quest Puzzle, Labyrinth Puzzle, and TRIO Colors Puzzle from Escape
Best Selling
That’s a great question, but like the St. Ives problem, it has many correct answers. The Guinness world records that are relative to jigsaw puzzles are numerous and varied:
Most pieces
Largest size
Fastest solution
The thing about world records is that they’re an adventurous dip into the global enthusiasm that exists for jigsaw puzzles. So buckle up, and let’s do some solid delving into all things jigsaw puzzles.
World Record for Most Pieces in a Jigsaw Puzzle
Have you ever dared to try your hand at a 2000-piece puzzle? It’s definitely an accomplishment, but unfortunately, it can’t even begin to compare to the record holder from September 24, 2011. That puzzle had 551,232 pieces!
It was completed in a mind-crushing 17 hours, but when you learn that it was a team effort of 1600 students, it seems a little more doable. These students were attending the University of Economics at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, and this was probably just a side project. Unless we know nothing about economics, that is.
That many people stretched out over a jigsaw puzzle would require it to be pretty enormous, wouldn’t you think?
You’d be correct. This puzzle measured abo
Guinness World Records: Prize-Winning Puzzles
Guinness is good for you… especially if you’re a world record breaker! Guinness World Records, originally conceived over a 1951 debate about which was the fastest game bird in Europe*, has evolved into the globally recognised authority on record-breaking.
Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery and one party in the bird discussion, realised there was no book to settle such a dispute. Inspired by this, he envisioned a comprehensive compilation of superlatives that could serve as a reference guide. In 1954, the first edition of
The Guinness Book of Records
was published and quickly became a bestseller.
Plenty of puzzling feats have appeared in its pages over the subsequent years, including the brain-boggling achievements below. Are you up to the challenge?
Most pieces in a jigsaw puzzle
Do you find a 500-piece jigsaw a bit of a challenge to complete? Good job you weren’t in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam on 24 September 2011. That’s where 1,600 students spent 17 hours completing a jigsaw of lotus flower consisting of 551,232 pieces, with an overall measurement of 14.85 x 20.20m. If you’re after a jigsaw that’s
Room Escape Artist
Tammy McLeod recently set the Guinness World Record for the “fastest time to complete the Hasbro puzzle” with a time of 9 minutes 58.32 seconds.
We recently chatted with Tammy (puzzler extraordinaire!) about this experience.
Interview
REA: What was involved in setting this record?
Tammy: This record is actually a pretty old one. The previous record was set in 2014. So, my first step was getting a hold of the puzzle. There is a specific puzzle required for the record and this puzzle is actually out of print! I had to track down a copy from the UK on Ebay. The next step was contacting Guinness. They have a specific list of requirements that need to be satisfied for a successful record attempt. I had planned to make an attempt in summer 2020 at a puzzle event, and of course, everything got cancelled. It was December 2020 before I figured out how to safely organize an attempt.
Was there anything unusual about the Hasbro puzzle?
It’s a fairly standard cardboard puzzle. It’s oval shaped, and doesn’t come with a reference picture. The puzzle image features a number of other world record holders.
What are the rules for this type of record set