Tag Archives: jigsaw

Puzzles get a kick in the posterior

This past year and a half we’ve all been going puzzle/jigsaw crazy -Be gone with you dull picture based put-together-things there is a new way to play in town. Fresh from Big Potato are these, they just call them PUZZLES. Adding a little extra the designers have inserted a game …

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Illuminations illuminate Blackpool

Great news for the crew of the International Space Station tonight as they’ll get an extra treat as they whizz over the earth at 500 Kmh as they’ll witness the spectacle of the Illuminations being switched on. Since 1879 the six mile stretch of Blackpool (and Lytham/Bispham) have been brought …

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Classic films get the jigsaw treatment

A trio of our favourite retro films just got puzzled, a trio a 500 piece put-togethers for your rainy afternoon delight. When done they sit at an impressive and wall-worthy 45 x 60cm. Most certainly pop on the film in the background as your puzzle, and, each one comes complete …

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Start with the corners – LEGO have a new jigsaw line

It’s a 1,000 piece play, would it take longer to finish than a 1,000 piece LEGO set? Around £20 and there’s a minifig one and a couple of other colourful sets too – This is the one we’d hang on the wall once done though.  

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Wall worthy jigsaw puzzles

Early lockdown saw sales of jigsaws spike up to 300% and they’ve now entered the zeitgeist right alongside board games. Never enter into anything more than a giant-sized toddler ten-piece Pepper Pig puzzle if you haven’t a modicum of patience. Set your state of mind to moderately calm and whack …

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Jigsaws – enjoying a resurgence

Quite possibly the ideal antidote for lockdown languor, lots of folks we know are stocking up on 1,000 piece interlocking analogue entertainment systems. That’d pretty much be our upper limit piece wise and we’d likely go for an image that had distinct areas of colour so it didn’t mangle with …

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National Puzzle Day is here

  Celebrating its third year the global celebration is designed to bring all manner of brain-manglers together from Jigsaws to word games,  number solving Soduku style stuff to board games, pretty much anything that is puzzling (does not include this years self-assessment). So, get in on the action and head …

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