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The biennial American Puzzle Parley for puzzle cutters and collectors was held virtually for the first time in July 2021, and we were all invited! The event is primarily for puzzle cutters to share information; there were talks on topics

Judging purely by the puzzles uploaded on flickr, the world’s most popular holiday destination is… Venice! But there were plenty of others, including Paris, San Francisco, Bled, Delphi, St Moritz, Ljubljana, Victoria Falls and even Arcadia. At a time when

This issue was dedicated to our founder Tom Tyler (1939 – 2020), and contained members’ memories of his immense puzzle knowledge, kindness and naughty sense of humour. There was also an illustrated article from Jackie about the development of the

To compensate for missing the house party, we arranged to puzzle together virtually over a long weekend. We kicked off in style with an illustrated talk on oriental puzzles by Anne, John and Pete, and then there was serious puzzling

Issue 139 was dominated by accounts of the various activities that comprised last November’s Virtual Puzzling Weekend, but also included tributes to two of our members , Honorary Life President Tom Tyler and Terry Walters, aka GrandpaTJ, both of whom

Another fun, informative and engaging weekend’s puzzling was enjoyed by over 40 members back in November. Extensive accounts were published in the recent Jigsaw Pieces Issue 139. Highlights of the weekend were an inspiring presentation by US master jigsaw enthusiast

Sad news indeed. Our founder, club member No.1 and Honorary Life President, Tom Tyler, passed away peacefully, at home with all his family, shortly before New Year’s Eve. Tom and friends founded The BCD back in 1985 and he has

Issue 138 was once again packed with lovely full colour pictures of jigsaw puzzles and related epherama. Most of the first half of the magazine was taken up by accounts of the very successful second BCD virtual weekend – see

We awoke on the Saturday in the UK to a continuation of the Indian summer we had been experiencing recently – bright skies and sunshine – the perfect lighting for a day of good puzzling. Having not been on the

Our second online show and tell meeting was again enjoyed by over 30 members who ‘Zoom’ed in to join us from around the world. Alan’s puzzles were a Thelwell cartoon “Water Jump” and a Pears print “Impudent Hussies painted in