Like its counterpart issue a year earlier, the Autumn 2016 Issue 121 had a lovely cover colour picture and included a further 7 pages of colour photographs of many of the puzzles discussed in the articles it contained. The cover photo was of an appropriately autumnal 700 piece push-fit puzzle titled “The Gleaners”, the picture having being taken from a cut-down Ovaltine poster.
After chairman David Shearer’s “Chairman’s Chatter”, Jo Tyler kicked the issue off with an account of the recent June meeting held in Grayswood Village Hall, Surrey, followed by an account of the meeting’s “Underground, Overground …” Show and Tell session. Articles from members on a variety of topics followed including Part 6 of David Shearer’s “The wanderings of the Jigasaurus” about an interesting collection of over 50 old puzzles he had recently acquired that required a lot of sorting and unjumbling!, a profile of one of the few current French cutters, Genest Desfosses, Le Colimacon (The Snail), two articles by Jackie Armstrong on a Goya painting featuring an early jigsaw puzzle and a jigsaw puzzle race she had participated in and Stephen Smith’s piece on A V N Jones Australian and South African puzzles series.
Also of note in this issue was a photo of member Geert Bekkering receiving the coveted John Spilsbury Award from the Association for Games and Puzzles International (AGPI). Our congratulations to Geert!