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We have members all over the world, so virtual meetings enable far-flung members to keep in touch and take an active part in the club. As usual, the weekend began with people posting the puzzles they intended to do on

This issue had an American focus, with a special feature on US premium laser puzzle company Liberty, who have recently celebrated their 20th anniversary. Geert and Anne shared their research on early figure pieces in jigsaw puzzles, asking others to

The annual weekend knees-up was a blast, as always, and only slightly quieter than last year’s 40th anniversary event. Highlights on the puzzle front were the 20 Stave puzzles kindly brought by Karen – many members had their first opportunity

There were two very different meetings during this period. The September meeting, in the sunny Cotswolds, had the Show and Tell theme ‘London to Bristol’. Some speakers had highly imaginative explanations as to how their puzzles fitted the theme! Wintry

We opened the weekend with a talk on a subject which is a hot topic within the club – Artificial Intelligence (AI). Craig Astfalck of Puzzly gave the same prompt to three different AI tools, and showed how they had

Our final meeting of the year was in Market Harborough. Floods over large parts of the country made driving difficult, so attendees were happy to arrive in a large warm hall full of cake and jigsaw puzzles. The Show and

This issue was bursting at the seams, with write-ups of  two quarterly meetings in Mostyn, north Wales and Langley Burrell near Chippenham. Ihor Reshetnikov of Dreamton Puzzles in Ukraine introduced himself and his creative laser-cut puzzles. BCD member Paul explained

The quarterly meeting at Langley Burrell near Chippenham was well attended; there were quite a few old friends there whom we hadn’t seen for a while, and two of our founder members, Sally and Matthew. Three puzzle sellers did good