More than 18 months ago, we completed ‘Summertime‘, a Rosina Wachtmeister puzzle. ‘Never again!’, we vowed, after taking what seemed like hours (and probably actually was hours) employing a sophisticated trial-and-error system to complete the extensive areas of black that made up the puzzle’s main character, a big gold-faced cat.
Famous last words. After languishing for [...]

One of the Waddingtons Collectibles series, this 500-piece puzzle had lots of unusual-shaped pieces, meaning I often had to get larger areas completed before any of them would lock together securely. An excellent puzzle, which occupied me, on and off, for about three days. According to the finished picture, I am due to meet a [...]

One of a series of Wasgij Destiny puzzles, this one is the same as any other Wasgij in the sense that the finished picture is different from what you see on the box lid. With a Destiny puzzle, however, the completed puzzle is not a mirror image of the original, but an updated version instead. [...]

Only a 750-piece puzzle, this one, but as tough in its own way as a few 1000-piecers, mainly owing to the large number of leaves. (Now who’d’ve thunk an oak tree woulda had leaves on it, huh?)
I managed to identify most of the birds in the picture. The blue tit — if that’s what it [...]