Archive for 2009

Alphabet car boot sale

Posted on August 28th, 2009 by puzzler

The choice was mine: if I’d wanted I could have spent half a week compiling a list of the 260 objects (ten for each letter of the alphabet) shown in this puzzle. I was, however, inexplicably overcome with a sudden attack of lazy-itis. Besides, the answer sheet came with the puzzle — not bad, considering [...]

Beauty salon

Posted on August 17th, 2009 by puzzler

Sid’s beauty salon might seem like an unassuming kind of place, but in reality it’s the salon from Hell. Trust me, you wouldn’t wanna go there. You’ll have to complete the puzzle to find out the full extent of the horrors that await, but, without giving too much away, I can say it’s pretty , [...]

Trafalgar Square

Posted on August 10th, 2009 by puzzler

Ravensburger puzzles are always top quality and this was no exception.
Knowing little of London and having been there only once, doing this puzzle encouraged me to do some research about all those Trafalgar Square statues. Turns out that two of them are largely forgotten Generals (Napier and Havelock, if you must know) in India [...]

The football match

Posted on August 6th, 2009 by puzzler

Danny Burn (or Byrne, if you prefer the spelling on his own website to that on the box lid of our centuries-old Waddingtons puzzle) is an excellent cartoonist. His work has appeared in numerous newspapers and he was accepted into the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2008.