Save the Dates! • 2026 AGPI Convention • Minneapolis
Minneapolis will be the venue for the AGPI's 2026 annual convention, our first convention in Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lakes! AGPI Director Nadine Sehnert is our 2026 convention host.
The core convention events will take place from Friday, July 10, 2026 through Sunday, July 12, and will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Minneapolis Airport. (The group code for members to receive the AGPI convention room rate is forthcoming.)
Additional convention activities will be held post-convention, on Monday, July 13, 2026 and Tuesday, July 14.
Members attending the AGPI convention may be interested in also attending the Puzzle Parley, held in the same hotel from July 17 through 19, 2026. Room rates will be the same and participants will be able to keep their same rooms.
Details about speakers, the 2026 awardee of the AGPI Outstanding Achievement Award, and a variety of post-convention activities are in development; updates will be posted on the AGPI website.
Interested in being a speaker at the AGPI's 2026 convention? Please contact
AGPI 2025 Convention • Panicale, Italy
October 16-20, 2025 • at the World Puzzle Center
It's time to think about the great event to come: the AGPI's 40th anniversary, offering a great escape to Italy.
A couple of years ago, famed mechanical puzzle collectors Roxanne and George Miller took a world cruise, which stopped, among other places, at a port in Italy. They had been told about a castle that was for sale in nearby Panicale—only kilometers away. They hired a taxi, were driven to the village, met with the owners, and bought the castle. (You’ll hear the whole story at the 2025 convention.)
If you come to our convention, you can visit their home and the over 100,000 mechanical puzzles there, and maybe even sleep in the 15th century castle if you’re among the first ones to send in the Registration Form that will be posted on February 2nd.
Now then, if you are unable to buy your own castle, you can still visit one for 3+ days, and even stay in one! With Valentine’s Day coming up, this is a great opportunity to treat yourself, your friend or your loved one to a trip to Italy.
The overall facility, called the World Puzzle Center (WPC), consists of the castle, a connected Puzzle Palace and a House of Games (Casa dei Giochi). Some of the puzzle display rooms—as well as the sleeping rooms—require walking up and down long corridors and sometimes up and down steps and stairs. There is a small elevator between two floors of the multi-floor castle, and another elevator in the Palace. Except for the House of Games, mechanical puzzles are on display in every room—puzzles that you are encouraged to look at, handle, and even take apart—provided you don’t leave until you’ve put them back together. Children are not permitted in any of the puzzle rooms; they are welcome to spend the time in the House of Games.
Two ways to Register:
If you want to register via postal mail,
Click here for the 2025 AGPI Member Convention Registration form.
The registration form should be sent to Charlie Gross with payment made payable to: AGPI. Conference registration can also be purchased online by selecting the appropriate link below:
Click here for 1 attendee ONLINE registration for AGPI member
Click here for 2 attendees ONLINE registration for AGPI member
There are a limited number of rooms available in the World Puzzle Center castle
Click here to request a room in the World Puzzle Center castle.
