# Records & solvers

> Eternity II has never been solved, but fifteen years of community effort have pushed the best board to 470/480. Who holds what, how they did it, and why some headline "480" boards are not actually the real puzzle.

- Canonical page (with interactive figures/demos): https://eternity2.dev/research/records/
- Updated: 2026-07-21
- Source: eternity2 mailing-list archive (groups.io): the record announcements; free account required to read — https://groups.io/g/eternity2
- Source: Wikipedia: Eternity II puzzle (the $2M prize, the 2010 deadline and Verhaard's 467) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_II_puzzle
- Source: Louis Verhaard's own account of his 467 solver — https://www.shortestpath.se/eii/eii_details.html
- Source: e2.bucas.name (Jef Bucas): the community board viewer; every linked board can be re-scored there — https://e2.bucas.name

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This page tracks the score: who held the best board at each point, and how they
did it. For the story around the numbers, the turning points that moved the
puzzle, see the [history at a glance](/research/history); the strongest methods
live in the mailing list and Discord, not in journals.
> **[Interactive: RecordsView]** Rendered on the canonical page (link above); not shown in this markdown export.

## Related

- [History: the big steps](https://eternity2.dev/research/history) — The Eternity II story at a glance, from the mailing list founded in 2000 to the 470 record that still stands. A scannable timeline of the turning points, each linking into the full two-part history and the message where it happened.
- [Experiments](https://eternity2.dev/research/lab/experiments) — The lab's named search experiments, one section per researcher. Each is a real run against Eternity II with its idea, its best board, and the questions it left open. Raphaël Anjou's notebook is here in full; the notebook is open to anyone else's.
- [The rigidity wall](https://eternity2.dev/research/why/rigidity-wall) — Every record board we have is frozen in place. You cannot nudge your way from a great board to a perfect one, and we can prove it.