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Cards of Fortune

Posted on November 20th, 2009 by puzzler

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 [...]

The invitation

Posted on November 9th, 2008 by puzzler

Most people, whether they are religious or not, know the story of Noah and his ark. The story of a global flood, in fact, goes back thousands of years, long before most of today’s religions were born.
Christian artist, Tom duBois, brings the Flood story to life in ‘The Invitation’. Its vivid realism makes it [...]

Flower fairies

Posted on October 26th, 2008 by puzzler

This 1000-piece puzzle, comprising four of Cicely Mary Barker’s 1920s pictures of fairies in different seasons, may look pretty, what with all those flowers and delicate little fairy wings. But it was a nightmare trying to put it all together; every piece was almost identical in shape, and each one was oriented the same way, [...]