Heinz Ketchup's 570-piece, all-red ketchup puzzle spells torture for those under quarantine
Brand is the latest to create a jigsaw during the pandemic
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Jigsaw puzzles are shaping up to be a new trend in pandemic marketing. Earlier this week, McDonald’s announced it would be giving away 500-piece burger puzzles in Belgium. Now, Heinz Ketchup has introduced its own jigsaw—but one that’s inarguably more challenging than that of the Golden Arches.
Created out of agency Rethink, the Heinz puzzle not only has more pieces than the McD challenge—570, a nod to the ketchup’s name—all are nothing but Heinz red, with no pictorial cues to help players out.
In yet another nod to the red stuff, Heinz is billing the puzzle as “ridiculously slow,” promising to take up plenty of your time during quarantine.
The campaign is running in 17 countries around the word (Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Brasil, Netherlands, Chile, Argentina, Czech Republic, Romania, South Korea), with 57 puzzles up for grabs in each. For a chance to win, consumers need to head over to @Heinz on Instagram and add a comment on who they’d like to finish the puzzle with.
“Heinz is known for its iconic slow-pouring ketchup. In a period when everyone has a little more time on their hands and puzzle popularity has skyrocketed, we wanted to help pass the time by connecting the two, ” said Kraft Heinz Canada Senior Brand Manager Brian Neumann in a statement. "This puzzle is worth the patience, only this time, you can’t hold it at the perfect angle to solve it."
Update: Heinz has now made the ketchup puzzle available for purchase for $24.99 USD at heinzketchuppuzzle.com while supplies last. The company will be donating $10,700 (enough for 107,000 meals) to Feeding America, representing U.S. profits from the sales.
Heinz knows that good things are worth the wait, so we created the Heinz Ketchup Puzzle. 570 pieces. All Heinz red. It’s now available for $24.99 USD while supplies last. Are you up for the challenge? https://t.co/cRYL2Qdt5l pic.twitter.com/Xr5NnhgW8x
— Heinz Ketchup (@HeinzKetchup_US) May 19, 2020
Credits
- Date
- May 06, 2020
- Client :
- Heinz
- Agency :
- Rethink
- Head of Brand Build Communications & Innovation :
- Nina Patel
- Senior Brand Manager :
- Brian Neumann
- Chief Creative Officer :
- Aaron Starkman
- Creative Director :
- Mike Dubrick
- Art Director :
- Zachary Bautista
- Writer :
- Geoff Baillie
- Designer :
- Erin Maguire
- Strategist :
- Julian Morgan
- Producer :
- Anna Tricinci
- Producer :
- Todd Harrison
- Photographer :
- Alex Butt
- Print Producer :
- Narine Artinian
- Editor :
- Tyler Erdelac
- Account Services :
- Amy Greenspoon
- Account Services :
- Kai de Bryun Kops
- Account Services :
- Allie Kennedy
- Audio House :
- Vapor Music
- Audio Engineer :
- Art Mullin
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