Welcome to Piece-off #20!

Come solo, bring a partner or join a team and try your hand at speed puzzling - the top performers in each category go home with a prize!

🧩 CATEGORIES AND FORMAT:

- Individuals (Solo): Speed Puzzling (upto 300 pieces, 75 min, UNRELEASED puzzle, 3 prizes to be won!)

- Pairs (group of 2): Speed Puzzling (upto 500 pieces, 90 min, UNRELEASED PUZZLE, 3 prizes to be won!)

- Teams (group of 4): Speed Puzzling (upto 500 pieces, 90 min, top Team wins a prize)

You can register under multiple categories as they will take place at different times. Pairs tickets are per Pair; Teams tickets are to be bought per-person. All tickets include the cost of registration and the competition puzzle to take home.

🧩 TIME AND SCHEDULE: 10.45 AM - 5.00 PM, Sunday, 26th April.

10.45 AM: Individuals check-in and briefing.

11.00 AM - 12.15 PM: Individuals round.

12.30 PM - Pairs check-in and briefing.

12.45 - 2.15 PM: Pairs round.

3.00 PM: Teams check-in and briefing.

3.10- 4.40 PM: Teams round.

🧩 RULES:

- Individuals have 75 min to complete an unreleased, never-seen-before puzzle of upto 300 pieces. Prizes will be awarded to the fastest finishers.

- Pairs have 90 min to complete an unreleased, never-seen-before puzzle of upto 500 pieces. Prizes will be awarded to the fastest finishers.

- Teams have 90 min to complete a mystery puzzle of upto 500 pieces. The fastest Team wins a prize.

- Puzzles will come boxed, with the pieces in sealed bags. Only letter openers, keys or other non-sharp objects may be used to open the plastic that covers the puzzle or seals on the puzzle boxes; sharp objects like scissors or box cutters are not permitted.

- If, once the time has run out, competitors have not finished the puzzle, we will count the number of placed pieces, adding only groups of 2 or more pieces correctly joined together. Competitors will be ranked by the number of pieces they have placed.

- If pieces are missing/misplaced at the end of the puzzle, 5 seconds for each such piece will be added to the final time. If there are 2 or more adjacent missing pieces, no penalty will be applied as it is considered a manufacturing error.

- Tickets include registration and the cost of the competition puzzle - competitors take their puzzle home!