i am looking for german puzzle friends 😊, please leave a note here if you do too, ich würde mich echt freuen, weil ich auch eine deutsche Meisterschaft organisieren will.

Pairs speed puzzling is a lot of fun. Roles are very important and communication even more so. Thanks for the tips.

Some of my comments: 1) Placement: It makes a huge difference if the picture is landscape or portrait. If portrait (which is the most common) I prefer to have the box propped up on one side of the table, have the image positioned "sideways" directly before the box and have all the pieces in one big pile on the other side of the table. So the two puzzlers (that are standing/sitting opposite of each other) both see the puzzle sideways. If they are collecting new pieces at the pile they can both - with a single glance to their right and left, respectively, look at the partly finished puzzle and the box and see these in the correct orientation. With positioning the puzzle "sideways" (not sure if that is understandable) the table space is used perfectly. The longer side of the puzzle goes from puzzler to puzzler and the shorter side of the puzzle is going away from the box, leaving more space for the flipped pile of pieces. 2) Split the roles: Ideally one should know for each task an approximate relative difference of the two puzzlers. E.g., if a very strong puzzler is competing with a casual puzzler, he/she might be 20% faster with flipping, 30% faster with sorting, 25% faster with building colorful parts, 50% faster with single color parts, 40% faster with shape sorting, etc. If you knew these numbers, i.e. the strengths, one could split the roles very efficiently. But in any case: If the faster puzzler starts with an easy part (Karen claims the strongest puzzler should do the edge), then there will be built the first section sooner and this will help both puzzlers because one can build off this part in different directions and add pieces there. So I fully agree with the faster puzzler taking easy starting pieces. But if there are really, really hard sections (the big tree in "Cat Forest), it might well be a waste of working power to let the weaker puzzler work on this section - all depends on the relative strengths which are hard to determine.

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Love these videos! Im learning alot even if I dont compete. Thank you Emilia!

21:57 My partner and I always make it really clear when one of us starts putting floating/non-attached pieces (roughly) where they belong in the building area by saying: 'any pieces in the middle from now on are where they belong, do not move them'. That rule of communication has really helped us. He had a habit of clearing out any floating pieces he saw. Then when I came back to attach something to it, it would be gone. 😅 Also, for some reason, when we puzzle together we get faster than we ever are individually. I think we both race to get the areas of the image we like better, which makes us both go faster to stop the other one getting there first. Haha.

Good points! 😄

Very interesting video 🤓

For who does the shape sorting, I would say it also depends on the moment. Fx my pairs partner is generally faster than me, but one time I was joining her on the last batch of forest, as she was getting burned out on it. I had fresh eyes and energy to tackle it, so she did the shape sorting, while I kept puzzling. It's also worth noting that being fast at putting pieces together and being fast at sorting don't necessarily align, and it's worth thinking about them as separate skills.

All very useful and interesting information for those who do pairs. As I as totally solo none of it would apply for me. Ah me, the subtitles were all over the place. A few examples:- parab buzzling, building the bottle, with the perling and shape short. I can only assume that the subtitles person or whoever was having an off day. ☹ Look forward to your next video.

Hello Emilia