I have always loved jigsaw puzzles, I can clearly remember lots of wooden jigsaw puzzles of nursery rhymes. The obsession has stayed with me and I’m now sharing my love of puzzles with Monkey. I only need to look at my Mum to know where the interest springs from – she is a total puzzle addict. I think half the container when they emigrated, was full of puzzles!! So today, thanks to Jumbo Games, I have a Wasgij Giveaway for National Puzzle Day.
According to a survey commissioned by Jumbo, the manufacturer of Wasgij the No. 1 adult jigsaw puzzle range*, the top most unusual places to complete a puzzle include the
garage, the bedroom, the attic, outside and even the shed!
The study of over 1,000 adults also showed that 71% of puzzlers with children enjoy a puzzle with their kids and 31% puzzle weekly.
I must confess to being rather boring on that score – I use our large dining table for jigsaws when I get some spare time. I used to have a fold out board, I think that got lost when I got divorced – note to self: really need to buy a new one!
So today it National Puzzle Day – celebrating 300 years of puzzling. Did you realise they were that old? The jigsaw was the brain wave of a British engraver and map maker who designed one first in 1760.
To celebrate National Puzzle Day Jumbo Games are offering a 25% discount
on the Wasgij and Falcon brands of puzzles – check your retailers now! If that’s not enough to get you puzzling then here’s a bit more information on our Wasgij Giveaway for National Puzzle Day. Why not pop over to the Jumbo Games Facebook page and Like it, so you can keep up to date with offers and new puzzles as they are launched!
Wasgij Destiny 14: How Times Have Changed! is a Time Travelling puzzle concept which requires imagination. Clues need to be solved to forecast how the scene will look in the future; fashions will have changed so hairstyles and hem lines will differ to the guide image shown on the box.
I know someone who loves the Wasgij range and I’m sure she’ll be really interested to see this one. With a RRP of £12.99 (2014 price) this puzzle will keep you amused for ages as you figure out how times have changed. It really is a puzzle with a difference.
For your chance to win a copy of Wasgij Destiny 14 just complete the rafflecopter below – good luck!
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The giveaway will close on 19th February 2014 at midnight.
That is a hard one. Maybe a picture of my garden when all the birds are on the feeder. I love a puzzles, the loft is full of them !
my kids!
A personalised family Christmas (family and pets!)
I think I’d have a picture of a bowl of soup (just the soup!) to give to my mother-in-law, whenever we get her a jigsaw puzzle, they’re always ‘too easy’. We’ve bought her Wasgij puzzles before too!
An eye
A family reunion
The best jigsaws ever
love to have one with my donkeys on it
My dog toby
I’d love one of the whole family together
a picture of our hamsters
my son and our cat
I love jigsaw puzzles of all sorts and find them addictive. I think i I created a puzzle it would be on the theme of then and now – a puzzle split in two with pictures of how it was then and a modern picture of the up to date picture!x
I would make a dinosaur one as my son is obsessed with them at the moment.
My Dog
My family
I’d use a picture of our family.
a family picture
All my favourite chocolate bars!
My two cats, if I could get them together long enough to take a photo!
A funny one of the upcoming commonwealth games in Glasgow, my niece is volunteering for the squash events and she can’t wait to go.
Wow what an opportunity!
Of my Grandma and Grandad, as I’d give the puzzle to my Grandma, she loves these puzzles now that she’s housebound and I know that she misses Grandad.
My cat Barnie who died after 18 glorious years
Seeing as I am a big sci-fi fan I would make one of the planets and space and maybe even the TARDIS lol 🙂
this is great my children
I think it would be of a picture of my kids bedroom at its worst!!!
A pic of all my family together.x
My neice, nephew and cat!!
I would love my kids in a Where’s Wally type puzzle
countryside or woodland areas nearby
a beautiful nature picture with horses and waterfalls
A wedding picture of my husband and I
My favourite beach
ooh I looove wasgij puzzles!
What about a lifesized jigsaw of a topless Daniel Craig?
Sidmouth seafront and Jacobs ladder in East Devon
A wild flower meadow … always nice to have a pretty picture at the end and I think it would be quite complicated 🙂
In the Wasgij What if?…….. series –
In an England versus New Zealand rugby match what if the England team answer the New Zealand hakka greeting with a Morris dance?
countries of the world. It would be fun and educational
A lovely scenic picture of Sheffield so I could see my city coming alive as I get put the pieces together
Family pet.
An artistic impression of the last supper
a family picture
A snowy scene in the Lake District.
A VW campervan
My cats.
A seaside scene
a picture of my children
My dog, who recently passed away
I’d love a picture of the robot from Take That’s Progress tour.
Ooh good question! I think I’d make one of those mystery puzzles where you don’t know the picture until you actually create it! Otherwise, it would be a view of my hometown.
Ohh how hard – perhaps I would have one done of my dog 🙂 x
defo something personalised. Mine and hubbys wedding day or a family photo
A jigsaw of my family. We had one made when I was little and I found it a couple of months ago hidden away and it was lovely doing it again
My sausage dog Bubbles
An electronic circuit board could perhaps be fun to do – would be a little like a map, only without place names, etc.
I’d have one of my whole family, including my late Mum and eldest son, with my younger son and his family in Canada, we don’t have a pic of all of us, so it would have to be photo shopped
Beans on toast.
as a hardcore puzzler I would like something difficult like ….hmmm… zebra print, or milky way 🙂
my nan….because she was the reason for my puzzle obsession
my gorgeous cavalier king charles spaniel bracken
space
I would love to be able to create a photo montage puzzle of someones life. From birth pictures, through weddings, births and happy family and friend pics and pets.
My 2 westies with our spaniel. They’d look so cute on a jigsaw
A picture of my family
Don’t know if it counts as a puzzle – but when I was younger there were books where you picked what challenge/action to take to progress the storyline and turn to a certain page for whatever action you took.
I was actually quite addicted to them and did try unsuccessfully to make my own
Would love to see them make a bit of a comeback – i’d def have a go at writing one
I would have a puzzle of myself and my son at the top of the Alps last year xx
I would choose my nephews and our dog <3
I love anything to do with cats so it would have to be a puzzle about cats!
Like your taste – good luck!
A family pic
My garden including all the butterflies.
Love Puzzles
Tricky one – probably a family photo.
I’d have a puzzle of grass
I think I’d like a sort of montage/collage, maybe a walk down memory lane, or images of people and things that make me happy: my better half, the cat, wildlife and nature, sport, reading and puzzling. If I had to stick to one theme I’d make the puzzle of one of my large bookcases as it should be an interesting puzzle to do if nothing else! Fingers crossed here hoping for a little bit of luck to come my way.
My hometown.
a giraffe as i love them!
my dogs! 🙂
My kids when they were little x
Spaghetti & meatballs
Hmm.. this is hard! Maybe a holiday scenery!
My Ford Capri
A big group shot of my entire international family from mum and dad’s side 🙂
Elephants at a watering hole
A portrait of the family
channing tatum would make a interesting puzzle
A family Portrait.
The night view from Waterloo Bridge – finest view of London! 😉
Full English Breakfast.
Scene from the night club, dancefloor, bar, disco flashing balls everywhere, etc, obviously age appropriate so nothing 18+ what`s happening in night clubs, just mild fun 🙂
One of my bunnies Millie and Molly would be amazing x
My kids faces
A picture of Venice
The wreck of the Titanic
Animals in a nice scenic place 🙂
flowers 🙂
A picture of my two cats
My kids with the pets. x
Easy a jigsaw of my dearest friends and I on our holiday last year
My cats curled up together on the armchair
A picture of a jigsaw with wiggly lines on it
one of our holiday photos
a cute kitten is what id have 🙂
We should have Puzzles of our own houses
A jigsaw of the cruise ship I’m about to go on
my pets
Salvador Dali’s ‘Swans Reflecting Elephants’
My rather large family
Picture of children
A family reunion
My pets, 2 x dogs, 1 x guinea pig and 8 chickens.
My beautiful cat x
Charlie Chaplin
Guinea pigs
Possibly my two Persian cats Louis & Lara.
My 2 cats!
My 2 cats!
my family
Channing Tatum with no top on Mmm!
photo of my kids 🙂 that’d be a really fun puzzle to do
My other half, son and dog
a close up of my husbands face!
from a large group family picture
A photo of our family.
I love wasjigs i have most of them.
A family photo from my brother’s wedding last year.
Tiger Print
Rainforest
One of all the family
A family portrait in the shape of a heart so I could frame it once it was complete 🙂 x
My tortoise!
My cats!
A really hard spot the difference
A portrait of my husband surrounded by our dogs
My garden
well that is a conundrum……….maybe the moon’s eye view of earth
My redundancy cheque
My chocolate labrador
Cunards QE2 as i had loads of happy holidays on her.
The whole family!
Holiday snaps, happy times 🙂 x
A FAMILY PHOTO OF US ALL TOGETHER
London at night
I’d make it a pic of my kids for the grandparents! What a cute gift idea!
A fairy garden for my daughter
It would have to be of me and my boy and his favourite toys
it would be of my cat lol
I would do one of the picture from space of the UK when it was frozen over a couplr of winters ago.
the mechanics of a traction engine
A picture of a full moon, showing all the craters
Our house and garden!
A picture of a jigsaw of dots, make it as difficult as possible >:D
A big picture of all the Marvel comic characters
A picture of our little boy swimming underwater
the charity shop that i volunteer at, and then we could sell it to raise funds
oh my goodness that’s actually really difficult … I think it would be a family tree puzzle 🙂
The hotel where we recently stayed in Austria. My hubby would love it
I’d create the world’s most difficult puzzle……of a plate of white rice!
a family picture
My family
It would be a collage of all the best pictures I have of my kids growing up so far
I think a puzzle of all of Scotland with all the major towns and places of interest. Im a bit of a travel buff!!
My lovely cat, she’s adorable
my loony cat
unicorns
My family 🙂
Chocolate & wine 🙂
A picture of my beautiful children on holiday on the beach 🙂 perfection.
A beautiful sunset over the beach.
A playgroup one
My daughter
my chickens
my wedding day picture
I have a photo of my family all in fancy dress which would make a great puzzle
My family of course
The pet cat
I would make it of the day our garden flooded and 2 fruit trees blew down!
A landscape shot of the Japanese cherry blossoms in bloom
A portrait of my all my kids
A hard question, but the best puzzles would be the ones you can frame afterwards. A nice underwater fishy scene with bright fish and lots of different blue shades
Family photos
A collage of family photos x
my cat sooty
Cheesey pizza x
My 2 delightful cats
I have a picture of both my kids sat in buckets last summer when it was really hot splashing each other, would love that as a puzzle 🙂
A picture of my madhouse on a morning would make a great wasgij puzzle lol
we have a lovely picture of our family at my older nephew’s 18th birthday which would be nice to have as a jigsaw – we actually have all of us in it as we used the timer on the camera, which was hilarious – the first picture missed so we are all laughing so much in the second
My kitten 🙂
I would love one of my family! x
Chickens
One of my young son’s artworks!
springer spaniels, preferably my own!
Inside an aircraft
Picture of my family 🙂
A picture of Tom Hardy
my family
A family picture
my dogs
I think a night woodland scene
A chaotic scene with dogs, a cat and children 🙂 just like home
I would like to have a personalised one of my 2 daughters Dance school. We could sell at fundraising meetings to swell our funds enabling us to do more. We just visited Pineapple studios yesterday for a workshop yesterday! Great Fun.
It would have to be one of those amazing pavement artists pictures
i do a puzzle of lots of different dogs doing funny things
I would like a puzzle with a picture of the field in front of my house before houses were built on it. I can look out of the window and see the ‘now’ view.
I’d love a cityscape of say Manchester or Leeds, so I could enjoy seeing details of the city that I had never appreciated before 🙂
The kids.
my family
I’d love one of the Northumberland castles like Bambrough
of our family, all of them 🙂
my kids :O)
a local historical scene
It’d be a landscape of the area I grew up in.
probably dogs!
a picture of my favouriite holiday scenery
My cat
Kids will love it
Hard one – I’d love to create a collage of all my friends and family or a family tree. Something quite family orientated, as jigsaw’s remind me of family time.
I have a fab photo of the millennium bridge I took once, it would make a fab jigsaw.
I would love to have one of lake louise Canada
One of the family would be nice
I have a lovely photo of my daughter, nieces and nephews running down the garden – that would be great
I would love one of Islands of Adventure in Florida 🙂
One with all the family
My 3 Springer Spaniel dogs x
A photo of myself 🙂
I’d like a puzzle of Blackpool Promenade- the tower, the piers, the beach, the trams and the Pleasure Beach 🙂
a beautiful sunset over the ocean 🙂
Coral Reef in full colour with fishes swimming around
Probably a photo of my two dogs as a jigsaw 🙂
my grandchildren
All my lovely cats and dogs,past and present!
Our two dogs
My family 🙂 x
I’d have a before and after shot of our house on Christmas morning – one side with the room tidy & presents wrapped , the other side of the chaos afterwards with wrapping paper everywhere.
I would love a jigsaw puzzle of our galaxy – the Milky Way! I love stargazing and jigsaws so this would be a perfect blend of the two! I also think it would be a major challenge and educational too!
Something really difficult…like a plate of pasta 🙂
the milky way
Def a family picture, prob the one of us all pulling funny faces
A favourite family photo
My twin girlies!
My two daughters x
I would make one with the whole family on it
I would choose a family picture 🙂
A puzzle of our westie puppy Poppy! 🙂
A dragon – for my daughter!!!
A picture of my daughter and myself. Then after we’d completed it together, I would frame it and hang it on my wall to remind us of the mother and daughter time we had.
My family enjoying a walk in clumber park
A Victorian Christmas scene x
A collage of all the dogs I’ve had, they have helped me through different tough periods in my life and got me to still being here today and not in a wheelchair. They have also kept me company with living on my own, so mean a lot to me.
my daughter
A family photo.
Of my family 🙂
My family at a Falkirk F. C. football match