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Month: December 2013

Puzzling in a Multi-Child Home – A Guest Post by Matthew at Puzumi

Puzzling in a Multi-Child Home – A Guest Post by Matthew at Puzumi

Hello to all of Penny’s readers! My name is Matthew, I’m the writer and researcher for Puzumi. We’re a puzzle company that prides itself on creating puzzles that help people train their brain, sharpen their skills and let folks have fun while doing this! A big focus of mine of late has been looking at how puzzles impact children during their development. From their earliest moments when they begin using puzzles that are simple cutouts of basic shapes, to more…

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Weird Places to Find a Puzzle Piece – #3

Weird Places to Find a Puzzle Piece – #3

Conversation with my almost 4-year-old son yesterday, “Mommy, can I have a piece of candy?” “Sure, Derek. Get one piece out of your Halloween bowl.” A minute later, “Mommy, look….a puzzle piece!” What?! My missing piece from Kevin Sloan’s The Messenger has been found! I wonder how it got in Derek’s Halloween stash?! It’s wood so I don’t think it would have tasted too much like 100 Grand bar. Hmmmm…….

JigamaWHO? Why, Jigamajoy of course!

JigamaWHO? Why, Jigamajoy of course!

Earlier this week, I was contacted by Mike from the Jigamajoy Company of Pine Brook, New Jersey, who has created a very unique product that combines standard playing cards and jigsaw puzzles into a really interesting puzzling experience.  A few formats have several different ways to solve each puzzle and some even have math questions to help kids put the puzzle together correctly.  Huh?  Who would have thought of combining these two seemingly unrelated aspects of “gaming”, but it seems…

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Whimsical Woodie

Whimsical Woodie

In my last post I mentioned that I was getting my first wooden jigsaw puzzle, entitled The Messenger by Kevin Sloan.  What I didn’t say at the time, as I hadn’t yet received the puzzle, was that I was contacted by Artifact Puzzles and given the opportunity to choose any puzzle I wanted (up to a generous pre-set price) and they would send it to me absolutely free of charge.  Of course I was very skeptical at first because it sounded too…

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