Traveling Puzzle Program

Try out fun brands and competition puzzle sets with this program. The only cost to you is shipping the puzzle to the next recipient! New traveling puzzles are announced to all on the mailing list. If you’re not yet on our mailing list, sign up!

How It Works

Step 1 - Sign Up

To sign up, click on the puzzle image in the traveling puzzles email and you will be redirected to a signup form.

Step 2 - Participants Notified

Once the sign up deadline is reached, the form will be closed. If more than 24 people sign up, 24 participants will be selected at random. An email then goes out to all participants with a list, and the puzzle package is shipped to the first puzzler on the list.

Step 3 - Complete Puzzle

Do your best to complete the puzzle(s) within 2 weeks. If you’re on social media, post about your completed puzzle with hashtag #CAJPAtravelingpuzzle.

Step 4 - Send Puzzle

Email the next person on the list to get their mailing address. Send them the puzzle, paying any shipping fees.

Step 5 - Update CAJPA

Update the Puzzle Tracker linked in the participants email so CAJPA knows where the puzzle is along the journey.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • We ask participants to pass along the traveling puzzles within 2 weeks of receipt.  Therefore, if you take your position on the list (included in the email for the initial shipment of the puzzle) and divide by 2, you should get a rough estimate on the number of months it will take for your puzzle to arrive. For example, if you are number 15 on the list, you can expect it in around 7.5 months.

  • There is a guestbook included with the puzzle(s) that contains everyone’s email (please make sure your email is correct when filling out the signup form!).  When they are ready to send along the puzzle(s), the person ahead of you will email you to get your mailing address.  This way we can ensure your address only goes to those who need it. 

  • Not accurately.  We encourage people to fill out a Google form when they are finished with the puzzle(s) and are mailing them on to the next person, but not everyone does, so sometimes we are not able to verify the location of the puzzle. Please help us improve tracking by filling out the Puzzle Tracker form whenever you pass along a Traveling Puzzle to the next puzzler!

  • Send a second email and give them a reasonable amount of time to respond, around 48-72 hours.  If they don’t respond again, you can move on to the next person on the list.  Send us an email at travelingpuzzles@cajigsaw.org to let us know, in case that person reaches out to us later.  If they do, we’ll arrange for the last person on the list to send the traveling puzzle(s) back to the skipped person.

  • If you are traveling or otherwise unavailable to do your puzzle within the two week timeframe, please coordinate with the sender to pass it along instead to the next person after you on the list, and ask that person (or a later member on the list) to circle the puzzle back to you when you would be home and able to complete it.  Essentially, we want the traveling puzzles to keep moving through the list in a timely fashion, so you can coordinate a minor adjustment to the lineup and then return it to the regular list order afterward.

  • Please send us an email at travelingpuzzles@cajigsaw.org and let us know the condition of the puzzle(s) - any missing or broken pieces? Is it too well-worn? If it is still in good shape, we may try to send it out on a second tour, and would ask you to hold onto it for about a month until we can give you a new guestbook.  If it is too worn to travel on, then you may keep or donate the puzzle.