Sep 29, 2008

German town boasts the largest jigsaw puzzle

Puzzle maker Ravensburger AG claims that the world’s largest puzzle was put together yesterday in only five hours in the southern German town of Ravensburg.
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The puzzle is said to have 1,141,800 pieces and is 6,500 square-foot in size nearly covering the town square.

The participants assembled more-than 4,000 smaller jigsaw puzzles, each with 252 pieces and standard puzzle motifs like animals, maps and landscapes.

The rectangles were then taken to the nearby town square and put together into the single massive 20-meter by 30-meter puzzle.





Upper photo shows the puzzle in Ravensburg town square. Lower photo shows participants standing on the puzzle.

A notary has submitted the result to the Guinness Book of World Records. Organizers say it is significantly bigger than the current record -- a 212,000-piece puzzle put together in Singapore in 2002.

We have put together several hundred puzzles but never a Ravensburg puzzle. Maybe it’s time for us to try one.

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