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Jigsaw Pieces is under new management, but the quality and variety of the contents is unchanged! This issue focussed on the January virtual meeting, ‘Cardboard and more’, with pages of colourful examples of cardboard puzzles old and new, and a

We are pleased to be able to promote The 2nd Wyverstone Jigsaw Festival  

Despite the best efforts of the covid pandemic (which prevented our Chair and several international members, among others, from attending) and Storm Eunice, at its worst on the day most people arrived, this year’s house party was a great success.For

Seven long months since the last virtual meeting, and some club members were posting photos on flickr well before the puzzling weekend began. There were far more cardboard puzzles than usual, because by popular demand, the theme of the Show

The Lingfield meeting was recorded in this issue, including a nostalgic Show and Tell on the theme ‘Puzzles revisited during lockdown’.  They included a Wentworth patchwork coverlet, a Liberty London street map and (the best kind of old puzzle) a

Announcing the 2022 Puzzle Parley, the sixteenth in-person parley since 1994! After the long Covid-19 hiatus, the popular in-person Puzzle Parley will return the weekend of July 22-24, 2022 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, just 65 miles west of Boston. Please save

There were fewer attendees than usual, but of course, that meant more cake for everyone, and a chance of bargains at the sales tables. As host Rosie said, ‘It meant a lot to see familiar faces again and altogether it

  The eagerly awaited face-to-face meeting in Binsted was the main theme of Issue 142. The History ‘Show and Tell’ was given prominence, with colourful photos of everything from an ancient chariot race to a political protest in Wales in

Our first face-to-face meeting in 18 months was hosted by our new chair, Pete. It took place in a quintessential Hampshire village, where timber-framed, red-tiled houses nestle round an ancient church. It was wonderful to talk to friends, old and

Pete Day introduced himself as only the third Chair in the BCD’s existence, and explained how Waddington’s Jig-Maps had sparked an early interest in doing and collecting puzzles. Much of the magazine was again taken up with a lavishly illustrated