We had a 15-day speed run competition running from October 17 through October 31. The puzzle was a 200-piece puzzle by Ridley’s Games called Spooky Curiosities.
Makayla Malloy had the fastest single competition time at 0:07:36. Congratulations Makayla! Lisa Grow finished in second place with a time of 0:08:00. Krista Peterson finished in third place with a time of 0:09:59.
Jason Jones completed the puzzle the most times with 41. Erica Ferland was second with 24 and Amy Hall and Cathy Hall tied for third with 22. For Jason, that’s 8,200 pieces placed in those 15 days. Congratulations Jason!
For the improvement statistics, Erica Ferland had the best percent improvement with 65.45%. Alea Nielson was second with 63.33% and Jeannette M was third with 57.44% For time improvement, Jeannette M was first with an improvement of 0:30:25. Erica Ferland was second with 0:27:13 and Joellyn Myers was third with 0:20:09.
Overall, there were 40 people that completed the puzzle at least one time for a grand total of 375 completions. That’s a total of 75,000 pieces placed during the competition. The average completion time was 0:18:13. The total amount of time spent completing the puzzle was 113 hours, 48 minutes, 12 seconds. View the full results here.
Thank you to everyone that participated in the 2026 Fall Speed Run! Congratulations to Makayla, Jason, Erica, and Jeannette! Watch for details for another speed run coming up this Christmas.


