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 [...]

Gale Pitt’s ‘The Tornado’ is essentially a montage of everyday objects and animals (food, furniture, frogs and so on) on a background of peaceful countryside. Only when you see the cows and sheep panicking, running for their lives, and the people who have been spared from the tornado’s greedy mouth, do you realise that it [...]

With a Gale Pitt puzzle, you often get a choice of seasons. The best bits from a puzzler’s point of view are the wintery areas, because snow white pieces are easy to find in the box. Next in line are the red or golden leaves in the autumn areas. The various greens of spring and [...]

Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to not one but several items in Gale Pitt’s garden. Some of the obscure insects listed under ‘Z’ would have been impossible for anyone but a professor of entomology to identify. A cheat sheet with the name, outline and location of all the items was, much to our relief, [...]