Completed 4th - 6th July 2025 (26th Megamarathon)

Oh yes, it was Megamarathon again. The 26th edition with approx. 71 participants and more than 266k pieces assembled all together. These were mine :-)

left: "African Animals" 

right: "Dinosaurs"  

Crocodile Creek, each 150 pcs. 

 

top left: Paul Heusenstamm (USA, 1949) "Monarch Butterfly Tree"  

top middle: FL Wright "Oak Park Studio Skylight", 1897

top right: Auguste Renoir "Woman with a cat" 

below left: Jeanelle Dimmett (USA, 1990) "Cupcakes, 2013"

below middle: Christopher Marley "Butterfly Mosaic" aka Limited Lycaenidae Mosaic

below right: Georges Dorival (F, 1879-1968) "Venise, 1921"

top left: Robert Bissell "The Dance", 2003

top right: Tom Thomson (Canada, 1877-1917) "Marguerites, Wood Lilies and Vetch" 

below left: Beth Van Hoesen "Bugs", 1985 

below right: Viktor Schreckengost (USA, 1906-2008, watercolorist) "Guerrero Still Life XVIII" 

left: Dan May "Ripple", 2011

right: Horace Taylor (UK, 1881-1934) "Brightest London is Best Reached by Under ground", 1924

 

top left: Edward Gorey (USA, 1925-2000) "Bibliophile with Cats" 

top middle: Eric Kennington (UK, 1888-1960) Parachutes, 1941

top right: Darsie Japp (1888-1973) "Regimental Band",  1918

below left: F. Gregory Brown (British, 1887-1941) "Kew Gardens", 1933

below middle: Edward Gorey "Wrap it up" 

below right: Tony Fitzpatrick (USA, 1958) "Bird for the Green Stars", 2014 

top left: Moll Hashimoto (1951) "Cedar Waxwing", 2012

top right: Charley Harper "Red-Eyed Vireos" 

below left: Kathy DeZarn Beynette "Owls and pussycats" 

below right: Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013) "Floral Passage", 2007 

Ravensburger Exit Puzzles, 99 Pieces each

 

top left: Charles Harper "Under the Sweetgum Tree" 

top right: "Hillside Theater Curtain" 

middle left: Charles Rennie Macintosh "Blue & Pink Tobacco Flowers" 

middle right: FL Wright "Old fashioned Window" 

below left: Die Harper "Crazy Cat, Crazy Quilt" 

below right: FL Wright "Saguaro Form and Cactus Flowers" 

 Four Visual Statements with 99 pieces each

and this one!

1000 Pieces

Arc-en-ciel

(C) Alize Group 

 

 

 

Completed 3rd - 5th January 2025 - 25th Megamarathon

25th Megamarathon - silver jubilee!!

It was an honour to assemble jigsaw puzzles together with my friends of the german jigsaw forum again and we made it big this time.

These were my choices and they were good ones. Thank you to all my friends who sent me these jigsaw puzzles to assemble them once and quickly ;-)

Day 1

187 Pieces

Simba and Friends - Lion King, Disney

F.X. Schmid, Germany

150 Pieces

Outer Space - by Adrian Chesterman

Ravensburger, 2015

187 Pieces

No Prob Llama - Illustration by Getty Images

Innovakids, Germany

100 Pieces

no title (cute dog with a red heart cushion)

Eurographics, USA

100 + 60 Pieces

Lars The little Ice Bear: The snowball fight (100) + Evening Mood (60)

Schmidt Spiele, Germany

104 Pieces

Mickey Mouse and Friends

Trefl

 

104 Pieces

I Love London

Ravensburger, 2011

204 Pieces

The Tiger and his friends - by Janosch

Janosch and Diogenes Verlag

Ravensburger, 1997

104 Pieces

Trip Around the World - Illustration by Imke Kretzmann

Mauseschlau und Bärenstark, means smart like a mouse and strong like a bear. This is a trademark in Germany by Schmidt Spiele

Ravensburger, 2016

104 Pieces

Animals of the World - by Howard Robinson

Ravensburger, 2015

204 Pieces

Dinosaurs - by Mario Kessler

Ravensburger, 2000

 

I remember that I assembled this one many years ago. Just found out that it was in October 2009! 15 years ago!

500 Pieces

Cute Kittens - Illustration by Barbara Behr

Anatolian, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti

 

> I removed the jigsaw puzzle back into its box before taking a good photo. 

Will assemble it again ;-)

 

Day 2

300 Pieces

Mickey and friends

Ravensburger, 2023

200 Pieces

Sledging through the wintry forest

Illustration: Thea Roß

Spiegelburg, Germany

300 Pieces

Moana (Vaiana, Disney)

Ravensburger Puzzle Moment, 2022

300 Pieces

Sushi (Shutterstock)

Ravensburger Puzzle Moment, 2023

50+80+100+150 Pieces

Avengers - by Marvel

Educa

100+100 Pieces

Captain America - Civil War (Marvel)

Educa

200 Pieces

Captain America - Civil War (Marvel)

Educa

 

Day 3

500 Pieces

Colourful Cupcakes

Educa

500 Pieces

Father's Day Ties

Cobble Hill

500 Pieces

Balls of Yarn

Cobble Hill, Canada

100 Pieces

Pirate Ship - by Gerold Como

Ravensburger Star Line, 1996

108 Pieces (-1)

From the movie "Frozen"

Clementoni

150 Pieces

Safari - Playmobil (Photo: B. Förderer, 1982)

Ravensburger,  1984

 

300 Pieces

Wallgau, Bavarian Alps - Photo by R. Kirsch

Ravensburger, 2012

 

Completed 3rd October 2024

  

300 Pieces

Prehistoric animals 

Ravensburger, 1992 (!)

I already assembled the same illustration 12 years ago with a jigsaw puzzle that had been produced 1986 *follow me*

There were much more informations provided on the box. Seems like Ravensburger reduced the infos to the licensor and title of the illustration. The illustrator is no longer even mentioned.

24th Megamarathon > 5th-7th July 2024

I was delighted to take part in our megamarathon for the 24th time. I was able to concentrate fully on puzzling this time thanks to a new distribution of tasks within our four-person organisation team. I will have broken my personal record this time. We beat the previous summer record (set in 2023) by around 50,000 pieces.


Here I show you the puzzles that my husband, family members and I completed and which were included in the total number of pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

Even jigsaw puzzles transferred via messenger are valid as long as it guaranteed that they have been started and completed within the official time (closing time as always: 23:59 PM MESZ)