Filipina receives Guinness World Records recognition for “Largest Collection of Jigsaw Puzzles of Any Size, Shape or Form”

 

Filipina receives Guinness World Records recognition for “Largest Collection of Jigsaw Puzzles of Any Size, Shape or Form”

In a modern world so turned on to video and digital entertainment, a lady who assembles jigsaw puzzles as a hobby takes center stage as she receives Guinness World Records recognition for The World’s Largest Collection of Jigsaw Puzzles in Any Size, Shape or Form” today, November 29, 2012 at The Puzzle Mansion in Tagaytay.

Guinness World Records Adjudicator and Representative of Turkey, Seyda Subasi Gemici, awarded Ms. Georgina Gil Lacuna, with the official Guinness certificate attesting to the new record she has set in this category. Ms. Lacuna has 1,030 jigsaw puzzles in her collection – all completed by her – housed in her Bed and Breakfast in Barangay Asisan, Tagaytay City aptly called The Puzzle Mansion. The previous Guinness World Records for jigsaw puzzles was 238, collected by Luiza Figuereido of Brazil on May 21, 2010.

The puzzles in Ms. Lacuna’s collection were adjudicated on the morning of November 29 in the presence of two official witnesses, Sister Angeline Ilagan and Professor Monette Narciso of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. The puzzle collection includes mural-sized puzzles that are 14 feet long and 5 feet tall and smaller pieces of various shapes and sizes, some in 3D and 4D.

Ms. Lacuna is currently working on one jigsaw puzzle that is acknowledged also by Guinness to be the biggest jigsaw puzzle in existence in the world : Keith Haring’s Double Retrospect with 32,000 puzzle pieces – 17 feet long and 6 feet tall.

Lacuna, who started doing jigsaw puzzles 27 years ago, says she is able to finish two 500-piece puzzles a day and a 1000-pieces puzzle overnight. “If the puzzles have only 300 pieces, I am able to finish five of them in one day,” she said.

Present at the Guinness awarding were Tagaytay Mayor Abraham Tolentino and Director Luella Jurilla of the Calabarzon Region who represented Tourism Secretary Ramon R. Jimenez. Foreign dignitaries as well as local and international media also witnessed the awarding ceremony.

“We are very proud to have this awesome puzzle collection in our City and this recognition from Guinness World Records, the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievements, will place Tagaytay on the world map. We congratulate Ms. Lacuna on her singular feat and salute her for the role that her puzzles will play in boosting tourism in this part of the country,” Mayor Tolentino said.

For her part, Ms. Lacuna said she wants to turn more people – especially the youth – into solving jigsaw puzzles. “They are very rewarding to do because they are educational and have many psychological and health benefits as well. They relax you even as they make you think. According to doctors, working on difficult jigsaw puzzles exercises your brain. The more you work your brain, the better off your mind will be. Solving jigsaw puzzles can help stave off memory loss and brain aging.”

The puzzle collection is on view daily at The Puzzle Mansion from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Sunday. For more information about the puzzle collection and The Puzzle Mansion, visit www.Facebook.com/puzzlemansion.

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