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I am glad that you enjoyed the video!

Thank you! When I tried it a second time some weeks later, I was 3 minutes slower. 🙂

Sorry! The piece of music was rather short, thus I had to fill quite a long time span by car sounds. Found only these screeching sounds in the free YT library. 😂

Thank you! And yes, indeed - it was a challenge (that I thoroughly enjoyed)...

Thanks for starting the challenge!

Might be necessary in 2 or 3 years - but not in 2024. They had approx. 600 participants in the individual category in 2023 and did again allow 1200 participants in 2024. This will be more than enough...

@@LogicMasterSteve Incredible

Yes, Schmidt is really a great brand. I have to confess that at the end there was a little speed puzzling feeling in the air since I saw I was close to finish sub-3-hours. 🙂

Thank you! I am glad about my time but my prediction of Top30 seems realistic. So many fast times already... 😎

I am not very good with car brands - thanks for your input!

It sure will be fun again! The VJPC events are growing bigger already - next one will happen 14.03.2024... See you there!

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Yes, those "small", unexpected highlights of this trip made the whole holiday so valuable to me. I hope that you have the opportunity to visit your home country (and your family and friends there) on a regular basis. It is quite a distance...

In the first round the start numbers were allocated randomly (except well-known puzzlers were seated in the front rows). In the later rounds your times in the qualification/semifinal round decided your seating. Sometimes the fastest puzzlers had a table for themselves when others had to share, thus winning your group brought an advantage...

Thanks for your interest! 🙂

Gerne! Glad that you could also participate! Next one coming soon (14.3.)! 🙂

Ein Mal möchte ich auch live dabei sein. Leider hatte ich den Post bei Insta über Vogelwiese zu spät gesehen.

Thank you!

Yes, the plastic was quite sturdy. If it took you really long, you can deduct the time for opening the shrink wrap because one could/should have started with the shrink wrap off. I don't care to deduct time because it cost me only approx. 5 seconds. Did you do well?

Thanks! My 3-in-1 contribution will be coming soon! Will be more relaxed (but still timed)... 😎

I must confess that I do not understand those equations because I did study mathematics not physics. I got this shirt as a present because the formulae look that mathematical (I believe they are about the wave equation). Good idea to use it as a lucky puzzle shirt. 🙂

@@LogicMasterSteve ah I see. well the beautiful thing about physics is you can use it without needing to understand it haha! this set of equations can describe electromagnetic waves (which light is) and how they move through something. and waves are energy, so that was my joke 😃

The sub times fading away were done "manually" since I am still a novice at editing. Inserting those times took 90% of my video editing time. 😀

Thanks for watching! 😀

Thanks for organizing it, Donnaluise! If you are interested: At 50 minutes into the solve we both had the same 35-piece area left. You filled those pieces in within 2,5 minutes - I needed 5,5 minutes. There you gained your 3 minute advantage over me. I am still stunned how you did that. 👏💪😎

@@LogicMasterSteve I think it was the good lighting and puzzling next to Alison that really helped me. 💜🧩

Indeed! With the distinct color sections this puzzle allowed many approaches (sorting, pure chaos,...) and it definitely had its challenging parts. You could not call it an easy puzzle but it provided many clues that made finishing it fast possible.

Thanks! 😊 Should get consistently under 1 hour for easy puzzles and around 70 minutes for difficult ones. I am absolutely not there yet... 😉 Will you try the blue car or have you tried it already?

@@LogicMasterSteve yeah I had my first time under an hour for a new 500, 58 minutes. Was very happy with that, since its a nice milestone 🙂

@@stijn7273 Wow, nice! Congrats!

Thank you! The puzzle suited me!

Yes, I realized the shrink wrap rules when I watched all the other videos... The dark pink section (that I call purple in the video) was very difficult for me, I did not see any gradient there - but other solvers mentioned one (either my eyes or my lighting were bad 😉).

Thank you! I did surprise myself. 🙂

Thank you! And thanks for joining the livestream!

Thank you! Glad you made it to watch live!

@@LogicMasterSteve I couldn't listen to the audio in the truck... (I was riding shotgun with my hubby and I had to be his navigator)... so I watched it again over lunch. So glad you had some chat buddies... especially in Vicky and Judy. Did you get to meet Vicky and the others (Donnalouise, Juby and Jeanette) at Worlds? I loved the music you selected. You definately get top points in music selection. Congrats on your best time!!!

@@RubyNeumann Yes, I met the whole team "World Pieces" in Spain! Thanks for the music compliment. Ellie from "Ellies world of Puzzles" used Cuban music which I found appropriate - so I copied that idea with a similar soundtrack...

I agree. Either shapesort early and build the puzzle similar to a single-color puzzle (with some additional help by the image) or not shapesort at all. You were impressive, as usual. Not good for my mental health to learn you still see potential to improve. Haha. 🤣😂

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Yes, the puzzling time was 01:10:43 but even in my personal excel sheet I noted the official time of 01:10:52. It was the same for all participants that we had to unmute the video call and make ourselves heard. My "fault" that I could not puzzle from home and I thus had the laptop positioned quite far from me. Blue Car coming soon, also with a respectable performance... 🙂

As a matter of fact, I have done the BOTYP - Blue Car already and I did *very* well. It will take some days till I will edit and upload the video - but it should be up at latest in 3-5 days. You are right that the image of the car is not great from an aestetical standpoint but it is very interesting as a puzzle image. I love the variations and challenges that different puzzle images bring with them.

Thank you! 😘

I hope you thoroughly enjoyed your puzzling time! I am almost sure because this puzzle is also very well suited for leisurely, relaxing puzzling... 🧩🦓🦁🐪🐰🐼🐨🦥🦏🧩 Even if I mainly post speed puzzling videos, I also enjoy those relaxing, hour-long (or day-long) puzzle sessions with relaxing music and many breaks inbetween.

Circle of Colors is truely a success from (and for) Ravensburger... They are just fun to build.

Thank you! ☺

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Thank you!

When I had first finished the puzzle it took me another 10 minutes to even realize that I had finally cracked the 1 hour mark. Since those round puzzles always took me 75+ minutes, I was not even caring about my time when I started. But since every animal has its own color/texture one "just" has to solve many mini-puzzles with approx. 10 pieces...

Ravensburger puzzles are so easy to get here, so they have been - to date - my only round puzzles. And they seem to be popular with puzzlers! Ravensburger has added many new Circle of Color puzzles in their 2024 catalogue...

Since my niece loves wolves I have solved quite my share of wolve puzzles. Notably, "Arctic Wolves" (very difficult) and "Summer Wolves" (difficult) from Ravensburger. Luckily, they were 1000 and not 2000. 🙂

There were many very difficult puzzles this time (Individual quali A+F, all four Pairs puzzles,...) and I believe that is not really a problem at all - perhaps even desireble. "Boston 2189" is perfect to do leisurely (took me less than 4 hours solo) but it is also well suited for a competition. Only it should not have been scheduled very late at the end of the most intense competition day. Some of the best puzzlers had Team quali (2x1000 pieces) + Guiness world record (1x2000 pieces) + Individual final (1x500 pieces) + Pairs final (1x1000 pieces) in a single day - almost without any break.

Yes, the experience was so good that I will repeat it! 🙂Happy puzzling, Thirza!

Same! It was fun, puzzling together! 😊🎉

Thank you for patiently awaiting part 2! Funny that you ask exactly today - because I have finished editing part 2 yesterday and I will upload it today! I was recording the text part of "WJPC recap - Part 2" before Christmas and finally found some time for editing... It took many, many hours to add those videos, photos,... - and I am not even perfectly satisfied. But it will do - people should be used to low-to-middle-quality videos from me anyways. 🙂