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Our first Summer Puzzle Tournament will take place on 11–12 July. The tournament’s six challenges will test competitors’ endurance and speed, strategic and tactical choices, and ability to perceive different image styles and shapes. Each challenge adds time to the overall total, and the competitor with the lowest total time will be crowned the winner, with prizes for the three fastest! We have received many questions about the tournament challenges, so we decided to introduce

The Finnish Puzzle Championships were held in Espoo on 18-19 April 2026. The competition, which has been organized since 2024, has brought together the Finnish speed puzzling community, which has grown bigger every year! This year, well over 200 individual competitors, as well as numerous pairs and teams, participated in the competition. Not everyone who wanted to participate in the team competition could fit in, so hopefully a larger venue will be found for next year. The co

In this article, we'll go through the most common strategy and tactic mistakes and provide practical training tips. Common mistakes (and why they are strategy or tactic mistakes) From a strategy perspective, the most common causes of problems are choosing the wrong order of progression (for example, starting with too large a section or a difficult area) and chaotic space management (pieces spread out everywhere). Puzzles and tactics that go against one’s natural way of buildi

In speed puzzling, the most important thing is to maintain continuity in the assembly and keep up the pace. If something is not working, you need to adjust course quickly. At the highest level of speed puzzling, knowledge and skills are applied on a puzzle-by-puzzle basis, and decisions are made fast, sometimes in a matter of seconds. In an intense competition setting, a consciously chosen strategy and a toolbox of effective tactics help get the puzzle completed. Speed comes

I wanted to shar some personal reflections on our puzzle competitions and speed puzzling more broadly. Puzzles you want to assemble again Lately, I’ve been struggling especially with the “one time use” culture that’s connected to speed puzzling. In competitions, novelty is often emphasised: unpublished puzzles are preferred so that everyone starts on equal footing and results are directly comparable. This is understandable, but sometimes it feels like novelty becomes the only