About Us
Assemble Puzzlery is your place for community puzzling in the East Bay.
Why puzzles? Something magical happens when you sit with friends or family and work together on assembling a puzzle. When we step away from our screens and gather over a common goal, conversation seems to flow
more easily. Connections are made between people, just as the pieces on the table come together.
We are currently working on planning our first events which may include speed puzzling competitions, casual community puzzling, puzzle swaps and games.
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Jen
For many years, Jen Thompson has dreamed of opening up a community puzzle “space”, where puzzlers of all types can come together to enjoy the stress-relieving activity of solving puzzles together. She had learned through personal experience how sitting down to do a puzzle with family and friends can open up opportunities to talk and connect with each other on a level that we otherwise struggle to achieve with our busy lives - sharing stories about lived experiences, opening up about feelings about our current situations, and brainstorming about exciting new ideas and future plans. So after spending over a decade of her career doing work to support other communities with health improvement initiatives, Jen decided to shift her energy towards enabling more meaningful connections among families, friends, and neighbors - with puzzles!
Erica
Erica navigated quite a few major re-directs in her career - starting off working in the theater as a stage manager, then discovering the local food movement and shifting to a life on the land, and eventually taking a job in public relations that allowed her to spend more time with her young kids. Now that those kids are a little bigger, she feels the tug yet again to make a change but this time to start something completely new and personally meaningful. And public relations, being what it is, got pretty bleak after January 2025. So rather than continue to toil as a cog in the corporate machine Erica decided to put her energy instead into something counter to that. A place of community where people can form connections with each other, sitting together around a table building something real. Oh, and doing puzzles.