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LIFE: The Great Challenge - by Royce B. McClure
- FIRST TO COMPLETE IN MALAGA, SPAIN.
- SECOND IN SPAIN TO COMPLETE AFTER MIXING ALL 24,000 PIECES BEFORE STARTING.
16 December, 2008
Oscar Guerrero Ramirez - Malaga, Spain.
Assembled between 14 August and 16 December 2008.
(This is an English translation, the original text in Spanish is below.)
Hello, here's a bit of background information on my interest in puzzles and how I
assembled this puzzle.
My name is Oscar Guerrero Ramirez, I am 34 years old and live in Malaga (Spain).
From small I've been an enthusiast of the 'world of puzzles',
Time line: From approximately 14 years old when I assembled my first 2,000 piece
puzzle, gradually I was putting together increasingly bigger puzzles ... culminating in
this 24000 piece puzzle!.
Throughout my life I have assembled many large puzzles. Of particular note are the
following: 8,000 pieces (The Workshop of the Artist), 7,500 pieces (City of New
York), 12,000 pieces (New York by night), 18,000 (Map),and lastly 24,000 pieces
(Life).
I started this impressive puzzle in August 2008 and finished it in December.
Really, I do not think that it is a difficult puzzle to assemble because of
the great variety of colors and the style of the painting. The inconvenience is just
that of having such a great number of pieces and the necessary large amount of
space that is required to put it together.
I did not work on the puzzle everyday. I mainly worked on it during the weekend.
What I did was to assemble it in portions and to reduce the space required by utilizing
cardboard sheets.
In the beginning I spent one week classifying pieces by form, then sorted by colors. 
As is normal I assembled the exterior (straight) edge first .. The parts that
I assembled after the edges were the following:
- Pink Sky and planets
- Sea and ships
- House, lawn and rocks
- Animals
- Globes
- Smooth Sky
- Sky with stars
- Gulls
- Clownfish
- Coral
- Lost City
- Dolphins
- The remainder
I would encourage people who like puzzles to try building it. Yes, it has lots of
pieces but it's not as difficult as it looks, and with patience you ultimately succeed.
Oscar Guerrero Ramirez
hub555@hotmail.com
SPANISH: Me llamo Oscar Guerrero Ramirez, tengo 34 años y vivo en Malaga (España).
Desde pequeño soy un aficionado al mundo de los puzzles, tenia unos 14 años
aproximadamente cuando monte mi primer puzzle de 2000 piezas. Poco a poco fui
montando puzzles cada vez mas grandes hasta llegar a 24000 piezas. A lo largo de mi
vida he montado puzzles sobre todo de muchas piezas, entre ellos quiero destacar
algunos: de 8000 piezas (El taller del artista), 7500 piezas (ciudad de new york),
12000 piezas ( new york de noche ), 18000 ( mapamundi ), 24000 piezas (vida).
Este impresionante puzzle lo empece en agosto de 2008 y lo termine en diciembre.
Realmente no considero que sea un puzzle dificil de montar, por la gran variedad de
colores y caracteristicas del dibujo. El unico inconveniente que tiene es el gran
numero de piezas, por lo que se necesita un gran espacio para montarlo. Lo que hice
fue montarlo por partes para reducir el espacio y lo que utilice para hacerlo fueron
planchas de cartones. Al pricipio estuve una semana clasificando piezas por forma
para luego empezar a separar colores. Lo primero, como suele ser lo normal, fue
montar el borde exterior. Las partes que fui montando despues del filo fueron las
siguientes:
- Cielo rosa y planetas
- Mar y barcos
- Casa, cesped y rocas
- Animales
- Globos
- Cielo liso
- Cielo con estrellas
- Gaviotas
- Peces payaso
- Algas
- Ciudad perdida
- Delfines
- Resto
Solo decir a la gente que le
gusten los puzzles que se anime a montarlo porque aunque tenga muchas piezas no es
tan dificil de lo que parece, con paciencia al final lo puedes conseguir.
Oscar Guerrero Ramirez
hub555@hotmail.com
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