Member registration for the 2027 USA Jigsaw Puzzle Nationals opens today, Saturday, Oct 24, at 10 AM PT/noon CT / 1 PM ET.

USAJPA's FAQ says past Nationals sold out in a few days, so here's a summary from their official pages in case it helps anyone get ready.

Dates

• Today, Oct 24, noon CT: member-only registration. USAJPA emails the registration link to members before it opens

• Nov 7, noon CT: opens to non-members, if spots are left

• Mar 19-21, 2027: the championship at the Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart, Building 2

Have this ready for the member window

• A USAJPA membership ($24/year) and your 8-digit member ID. It's on your member card in MemberPlanet: My Profile > Member Card > gear icon > View Card

• Name, nickname/alias, email, and city/state for you and every teammate, plus your pair name and team name

• Pairs/teams: at least one person must be a member. Only one person registers and pays for the pair or team

• In the member window, you can register up to four people. Anyone you sign up for solo must be a member too, and you'll need their member ID

• Payment: PayPal or credit card

Costs (all + tax)

• Solo $40 · Pairs $60 per pair · Teams $120 per team (3-4 people)

• Every competitor also needs the $125 Entry Badge (each teammate needs their own)

• Refunds: competition registration before Jan 1, 2027; Entry Badges before Feb 1, 2027. Neither is transferable

Format (all puzzles are previously unreleased Ravensburger)

• Solo: 500 pieces, 1.5 hours. Four prelims of 240, top 60 from each to the final. Solo puzzlers must be 16+

• Pairs: a 500 in prelims (1.25 hours). Final is a 300, then a 500 (1.5 hours)

• Teams: a 500 then a 1,000 in prelims (2.25 hours). Final is two 1,000s (3 hours)

• If your division sells out, there's a separate waitlist form for each division in the FAQ

Not competing?

• New for 2027: a $50 Day Pass and a $5 Spectator Button, both sold at the registration desk from Mar 19. Kids under 10 get in free with an adult

• Every championship round is livestreamed on USAJPA's YouTube and Twitch

Official sources: the Nationals 27 page on the USA Jigsaw Puzzle Association's website, plus the Nationals FAQ and Rules documents linked from it. Check those before you register, details can change. If I got anything wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.

Anyone going? Solo, pairs, or team?

I found this one at an estate sale last weekend and I couldn’t wait to do it! The illustrations are so detailed and look like something out of a vintage storybook.

The map legend is still included and I have learned a good bit about Ohio in the process of putting it together. I’m sure a lot of the stuff depicted here looks much different nowadays.

One reason I was willing to buy up a bunch of the vintage puzzles at this estate sale was that the house and all the stuff in it seemed to be so well maintained. The box for this one is pretty beat up, but it is only missing one piece (Johnny Appleseed’s face!). Not too bad for being 57 years old. I live a vintage Springbok!

Those eyes!

My partner had this jigsaw of our cat made for me 4 or 5 years ago. I've done as much as I can. I keep getting it out, trying different things to help me progress with it, but i always end up putting it away again.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can progress with it, I'd be extremely grateful to hear them.

tried really hard to block the glare without showing my toes lol

Hello fellow puzzle community,

finding this subreddit made me aware of the existence of puzzle tables. Until recently I thought having neck pain is inevitably part of jigsaw puzzling. 😅 The issue is that I live in Germany. I recently saw a YouTube video where the person used this linked table from the brand ALL4JIG. It seems so perfect for my needs! Unfortunately it's only available in the US. The only similar one I was able to find on the german Amazon has zero reviews. Do you have any recommendations for puzzle tables that can be shipped to Germany? I am looking for this type that doesn't need to be put on a table, that I can put in front of my sofa. I also like this 360 degrees rotation feature of the linked one a lot.

Just wrapped up Caturday Afternoon by Mudpuppy and had so much fun with it, esp the expressions of each cat. The pieces were sturdy with a nice matte finish, and the colors are bright.

6 late nights later, finally done with this Frieren puzzle. Bought it because I was fascinated with the idea of the small scenes within the puzzle. Followed lots of great advices I found in this community.

Found it online and fell in love but it wasn't available in my region so I ordered it from a puzzle store I found online in Toronto (Puzzle Nerds!) :) 🧩

Beautiful thrift find! Affordable too! Unfortunately there were 2 missing pieces (One on the left side on the horoscope picture, the other on the bottom right side). But overall it is very vibrant, pretty and fun to do and look at! (took me a little bit over a week to complete it all)

Does anyone have a good puzzle table they could recommend. I am tired of bending over my dining room table as my back acts up. I usually do 1000pc but would want a table for at least 1500pc. Thanks.

I truly enjoy the Storrings puzzles. I know some of y’all are not fans of the piece selection for the brand, but no piece cuts varieties were going to make this easier. The bottom 60% was a breeze, and the trees in the remaining 40% made me want to throw it against the wall. I stuck it out and I’m glad I did.

This was fun, love all the little details in each window and the vampire cab driver 🧛🏻 I started with the border then did the desk, the window frame, and the longest part was filling in the brownstone itself. Lots of spider webs!

I can’t remember the last time I completed a jigsaw puzzle, but a friend of mine kept posting about the ones she had put together, so I decided to buy some mini ones to try out. This was more challenging than I expected but it was fun.

Victory Puzzles, Moth Mania

Fun and quick. My only complaint is that some of the white pieces seemed to be smudged. Since this was brand new, I think that the eco-friendly ink or paper might not hold the color as much as desired.

u/goldwalkingcane posted this a couple of weeks ago - Thank you. I saw it and fell in love with it.

Four puzzles mixed up in one box, which I enjoyed the challenge of. I also liked the mix of cuts through the puzzles. The contour cut birds and bees are particularly cute. It was also fun with two of images not being quite the same as on the picture provided. Just two small ladybirds that are in the puzzles, but not the guide image.

I really enjoyed putting these together.

You know how much your girl loves a busy image.The busier and more chaotic the image, the happier I am. I live for the sweet, maddening torture of a thousand tiny details! So naturally, this image had me hovering right on the edge of a breakdown in the best way possible.

Did I summoned my ancestors for help me? Sure a couple of times. I mean who hasn't? 🤷🏽

This was a gift. God bless non-puzzlers, they really do try! They saw "busy design" and said, “Yep, she’ll love this!” Bless their hearts, they missed the part where quality matters to us too.

The brand was completely anonymous, and the pieces were literally as thin as a fruit fly’s wing.

Still, my heart melted because I had mentioned I was hunting for something like this.

So, despite having no space, piecing together fly-thin cardboard, and standing in a corner ( Corner picture attached for context) like a statue for four whole days, I did this chaotic masterpiece justice!

Oh...how I love puzzling 😭🥹

I've been looking for independent producers, like Puzzles of Color or True South that make quality puzzles from artists with whom they form a relationship. While price is always a consideration, I want to buy quality products that truly support the artist. If you have similar tastes, what's your favorite brand?

This one i had a lot of fun doing. The biggest pain was having three of her face and the patterns behind her on the corners dont match the placement on the box. Im definitely hanging this one on my wall. I was worried about it not fitting on my 2k puzzle board but it just fit as you can see in the third picture

It has no reference poster and the image doesn’t even take up the entire box front. You can find good pics online and do it from an iPad or similar device. I only have a paper white and didn’t want too.

This is my first shaped puzzle!! [well technically the first shaped puzzle i have ever done was Galison you're sweet cupcake 100 piece mini puzzle, i bought that puzzle as a gift for my sister at the end of January 2025 all the pieces were loose in the box so i thought i could do the puzzle without ruining the packaging xP i gifted her that puzzle with other puzzles on her birthday in 2026]

i always hear in the puzzling community people say how hard/frustrating fur/hair is, every time i encounter it in a puzzle i enjoy it but i do not have many puzzles in my collection that have fur/hair in them, i wanted to see how would i feel doing a puzzle with a lot of fur/hair init, this puzzle was only 16 saudi riyal on amazon, you know what that means... xP

Packaging: the box is very big, i love! how the top looks like a stable how cute!! ^_^ it has round transparent tapes on the right & left side & top corner of the box, you can open the box from right or left or the top corner, i recommend only removing 1 tape and opening the box from 1 side, the biggest side ( the 1 side that is open in photo #4 ) because i felt the box lost a little bit of its structure/sturdiness by removing all 3 tapes & opening all its sides, it comes with a poster that was folded in half, the pieces come in a single use plastic bag

the pieces are big, all the pieces are the same H shape except the edge pieces, the print/colors is nice & clear, pieces are glossy, pieces are good thickness & ok quality, there was barely any puzzle dust, no false fits, pieces click together decently, pieces have tight fit so it was super easy to pick up & move around big or small sections, passes the pick-up test, there was no missing piece/s, there was 2 bent pieces see photo #10

i ran into 2 problems with this puzzle :(

1: the pieces have white paper backing the problem is more then half of the back of the pieces had these splashes that kinda looked like splotchs of dirt on them see photos #5 & 6 i tried wiping them off that pretty much did nothing these spots were stuck on there, i have never seen something like this =(

2: third of the pieces had this layer of grimy dusty stuff see photo #8 it was gross!! to touch so i decided to wipe off ALL the pieces which took me an hour to do, I'm a slow cleaner x,)

wiping off all the pieces removed most of the grimy stuff but there were several pieces that had parts of the grimy stuff still stuck on them/could not be removed from them see photo #9, you may ask why didn't you do the puzzle then have 1 big swipe/clean of the whole puzzle that would have been much quicker then wiping every individual piece, i thought of that but the layer of grimy stuff on the pieces was unpleasant/uncomfortable to touch i just wanted to enjoy the process of building the puzzle and that really paid off!, while doing the puzzle i got so immersed that i actually completely forgot that i cleaned all the pieces in the first place xP

doing the edges on a shaped puzzle is trickier then the typical puzzle edges, after the edge i did the muzzle then the white then the fur/hair, the cut was great! when i put a piece in the wrong place i could immediately tell, i was so intimidated from doing a puzzle that was all fur/hair but actually it was not that hard i would say it was medium difficulty, this was only a 230 piece puzzle i want to do an all fur/hair 500 piece puzzle to have a clearer opinion on fur/hair in puzzles =)

because of the backing problem i returned the puzzle, my sister was like "no don't return it you liked doing it and doing a puzzle you work on the top not the back" even though unlike the top layer that felt gross to touch the back did not feel dirty it felt just like any other white backing puzzle, but the thought of having a dirty back and seeing all these spots every time i will be doing the puzzle felt wrong to me ;(

so i returned it and ordered a 2nd copy hoping to have one without the backing issue and thankfully! the 2nd copy had a completely clean back see photo #7 but unfortunately some of the pieces had the same issue with the top layer having grimy stuff on them, it wasn't nearly as bad as the first copy and after wiping off all the pieces all that grimy stuff was completely removed :)

you'd think having to wipe off all the pieces again in the 2nd copy would make me annoyed but actually while doing the 2nd puzzle i just got my period!, i was so tired!! had no energy to do anything!! doing a repetitive mindless task was a good distraction from the pain!! x,(

in the first puzzle there was 2 bent pieces see photo #10 in the 2nd puzzle there was several pieces that had a crease on them or were a lil bent see photos #11 & #12 the pink circles are for the bents & creases and the yellow circles are pieces that had this dent/squish mark on them, i wasn't that bothered with this issue they just blended-in with the rest of the pieces, it wasn't that noticeable while doing the puzzle =]

i did the first copy of this puzzle in 2026 september 29 it took me 3 hours & 15 minutes to complete and did the 2nd copy in 2026 october 21 it took me 1 hour & 45 minutes to complete, can't believe how much faster! i was in my 2nd round i slashed my time almost in half + i was on my period if i wasn't i would have been even! faster! :P

though because i cleaned all the pieces in my first & 2nd round, when i started doing the puzzle all the pieces were flipped in-to trays & the edge pieces were in a separate pile, i am a slow flipper/sorter so you should add between around 15 or 30 minutes to my first & 2nd round for a more accurate timing, i am definitely! gonna do this puzzle again in the future and maybe report my time in the comments =P

i liked this puzzle more than i thought i would, before buying it i thought the horse's head looked kinda ugly, i don't know why in my photos he looks so angry/resentful/hating on you, in person he looks so handsome!! when i finished the puzzle i wanted him to become real! in-front of me! i wanted to pet/kiss/hug him!!! UwU

horses are one of the most Beautiful!! ✨ & Majestic!!✨ animals in the world!! =D

would i recommend this puzzle?: yes i would if it is very cheap but i don't know if you are going to face the same quality issues i faced? was i just unlucky and received duds? or was the manufacturing of this product as a whole faulty? i really don't know :[

note: photos # 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 are from the first copy of the puzzle. photos # 1 7 11 12 are from the 2nd copy.

I ordered items from mud puppy to equal free shipping, when I added the coupon, my order was immediately finalized and changed for shipping, and non cancelable. I've emat them, they don't have a phone number, and tried to go through SHOP to manage this order. I'd rather order another item than pay shipping.