Archive for the ‘humour’ Category

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.

Tea, vicar?

Posted on July 16th, 2009 by puzzler

Paul Lamond Games are still going strong after 25 years and we have just done one of their Spot the Difference puzzles. Each completed puzzle has 33 differences between itself and the picture on the box lid. I spotted the first twenty-odd differences and Shana spotted the rest, which is good, because, this being another [...]

The Great British Seaside

Posted on July 11th, 2009 by puzzler

Dick Bogie’s humorous tour de force, ‘The Great British Seaside’, is in the tradition of the great British seaside postcard. Little donkeys try to give rides to oversized women, swimming costumes become mysteriously attached to the ends of fishing lines dangled by men on the end of the pier; and, inevitably, dogs run amok, [...]

Get well soon!

Posted on November 15th, 2008 by puzzler

No need to worry about catching MRSA in the hospital depicted in Jan van Haasteren’s ‘Get well soon!’ The dangers here are incompetence, extreme disorganization and, perhaps, just a touch of madness. Nowhere else (except maybe in a Carry On film) will you see ripsaw-wielding surgeons chasing their patients round the hospital. One white-coated doctor [...]