Members of each party will abandon their assemblers, assemble in the 8th floor room at 12 noon, and begin assembling puzzles like mad in the Great Puzzle Assembly.
Each team will be given the same puzzle (size tbd) to assemble. All members of a given party may work on their own puzzle. Party members may observe the progress of other parties, but may not get in their way.
The goal, of course, is to finish your party's puzzle in the shortest amount of time. The finishing order will be noted and points awarded as indicated below. The assembly will run for approximately 2 hours. In the event that one or more teams does not finish its puzzle, the finishing order will be determined by the number of pieces placed during the assembly. Thus, it is to your advantage to do the easy parts first.
The scoring for this event is simple. It is based on finishing order and, of course, participation. The points awarded for finishing order will be 10-6-4-2. Each team will also receive 1 point for each person who finds and places at least one piece in the puzzle. That is, it does not count if that person was simply handed the piece by another player and told "that one goes there". Participation points will be based on the honor principle... so please be honest about whether you actually fit a piece or not.
Of course, only overall standings and the end of the assembly count for olympic points.
Try your hand at assembling the campaign banner, available in puzzle form here. More fun interactive on-line puzzles can be found at www.jigzone.com. Another good place to begin would be the 10,000 piece "Garden of Pleasure" pictured to the right. (What? You thought we were going to do 500 piece puzzles?)
