EJJ Trier – Sunday, 18th of August 2024

On Sunday 18th August, 2024 we hosted our first in-person event in Trier, Germany! The venue was the Jugendherberge Römerstadt (youth hostel), where many of the participants also stayed overnight.

We welcomed 120 participants for a fun day of competitions and casual puzzling. Participants came from all over Germany, as well as Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Slovakia and Austria. Thank you to everyone who travelled to our city and made this day so special!

We'd like to express our appreciation to Eurographics, who sponsored our team event, as well as CherryPazzi for sponsoring our solo and pairs competitions.

Solo Adults

1st. 43:42 - Inge Sinot, Netherlands
2nd. 43:51 - Nina Schicks, Germany
3rd. 47.30 - Sandra Kunnen, Netherlands

Solo Juniors

1st. 1:01:59 - Franziska Treber, Germany
2nd. 1:12:43 - Elise Franckx, Belgium
3rd. 1:22:21 - Johanna Voria, Germany

Pairs Competition

For this competition we used the 500 piece puzzle "Living Reef" from CherryPazzi. Pairs were seated side-by-side and had 90 minutes to solve. We had 47 pairs participate including nine junior pairs (adult + 15 years or under).

Pairs Adults

1st. 26:09 - Kyra Muilkens & Quina Tempelaar, Netherlands
2nd. 26:29 - Maike Baay- van den Brink & Sandra Kunnen, Netherlands
3rd. 28:39 - Jörg Schrieber & Maren Faber, Germany

Pairs Juniors

1st. 25:26 - Franziska Treber & Valerie Ingwersen, Germany
2nd. 33:05 - Maria Rusnakova & Timea Rusnakova, Slovakia
3rd. 33:17 - Caroline Deckers & Elise Franckx, Belgium

Teams Competition

Eurographics provided the puzzles for this competition called "Spicy Table". This 1000 piece puzzle has a very unique random cut, making it even more interesting to build. The time limit was two hours. Twenty-three teams with 3-4 people took part.

1st. 55:05 - Puzzlenauten (Valerie Ingwersen, Maren Faber, Jörn Schrieber, Franziska Treber), Germany

2nd. 58:02 - De Poezelnerds (Maike Baay- van den Brink, Sandra Kunnen, Fenna Bontje, Ruud de Bruijn), Netherlands

3rd. 59:42 - EJJ and I (Inge Sinot, Ellen Sinot, Jan Sinot, Jim Sep), Netherlands

Video of Teams: https://youtu.be/CG_LCq6dQLc?si=JXmg3Kg6jyz_Boxv

Casual Puzzling & 100K Challenge

As not everyone is a serious speed puzzler and many would just like to meet other puzzlers and do some relaxed puzzling, we also had puzzles of various sizes available in the casual puzzling rooms and reception area.

This included mini puzzles with 99 pieces and kids' puzzles, as well as several 500 and 1000 piece puzzles and two 9000 piece puzzles - Trefl's "The Greatest Disney Collection" and Ravensburger's "Underwater Kingdom".

All puzzles completed during the day were recorded in an online form and contributed towards our 100K challenge! We wanted to see if we could build 100,000 puzzle pieces in one day. Together with all the competition puzzles we accomplished our goal and reached 113,000 pieces!!

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