Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Jumbo Games #NationalPuzzleDay Review and Giveaways!! (sponsored article)

Jumbo Games are a brand I've worked with several times in the past and they are the experts at jigsaw puzzles. They have a huge range including puzzles for people of all ages and abilities, including their fabulously popular Wasgij Puzzles, which offer a whole new level of puzzling...


I was sent a big bundle of puzzles to take a look at, including some of the Wasgij Puzzles. If you like puzzles and have never heard of Wasgij then you will be in for a treat. These are unlike any other jigsaw puzzles in that you aren't given the solution, you need to work it out yourself.


On the box are images and characters which portray a story or scenario and you have to use logic and imagination to work out how to complete the puzzle. These have humorous and modern cartoon illustrations and offer a real challenge. I'll be giving away 3 bundles of puzzles including some Wasgij and I'm testing a mini 54 piece puzzle this morning myself...


The puzzle pieces are excellent quality recycled card which is cut out really cleanly to slot together perfectly. The colours are bright and the illustrations are really intriguing. Completing the puzzle feels like an achievement not only because you've done the puzzle, but because you find out what happened...


Even the 54 piece puzzle poses a challenge and I love the fact that you don't know how the story is going to end! It feels almost like reading a comic strip story.


The 1000 piece puzzles are available in several different ranges. The Original Wasgij Puzzles have a 'What are they looking at?' concept. The Destiny Wasgij Puzzles have a 'Future time travelling' concept and the Mystery Wasgij Puzzzles are 'What happens next?'. There are other ranges available too, including Retro, Back To and Imagine, each with their own unique storylines and outcomes.


In our bundle we were also sent some puzzles for the younger members of the family. Jumbo Games have lots of sets with puzzles of various sizes, so that your child can move on to something more tricky as soon as they've mastered the easiest puzzles.


Jumbo Games gave me 3 bundles of 3 puzzles to give away to my readers and followers. I gave away 2 bundles on Twitter, but I have an extra chance for you to win a bundle of 3 puzzles below...


Wasgij Puzzles cost around £12- £20 for the 54 piece mini puzzles and the 1000 piece puzzles are around £10-£20 each. Available now from all good toy and game stockists, including online at Amazon (aff*). There is even a dedicated Jumbo Games Amazon store where you can find out more. 



Entry to the Puzzle Bundle sweepstake is by Gleam form below and the winner will be chosen at random from all entries. No entry is mandatory, but each extra task completed earns more entries into the draw. The winner will receive two of the latest 1000 piece Wasgij Puzzles Original 31 and Destiny 19, as well as the excellent Fireman Sam 9 in 1 Puzzle Pack.


Entry will close at midnight Sunday 17th February and the sweepstake is open to UK entrants only. If you are new to Gleam, or to enter my other UK giveaways, please see my giveaways page...

Jumbo Games Puzzle Bundle Giveaway #NationalPuzzleDay


*Amazon links are affiliate, which means I earn a few pence if you order through my link as a thank you, but you don't pay any more. We were sent our Wasgij Puzzle and I have also been paid for some of the time I'll spend working on the Twitter party with Wasjig.

87 comments:

  1. A brain teaser on facebook this morning, fried my brain.

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  2. It puzzled me as to why I had put my purse in the freezer, along with some bread! I thought I had lost it and cancelled my bank card before coming across it!

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  3. The last thing that puzzled me was where I had left my keys until I found them in the fridge!! Clearly I had been hungry as soon as I got home 🙈

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  4. Sudoku - this morning's brain training is still a work in progress - it will be completed SOON

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  5. Why my knicker label has the word 'main' on it. I then realised that it was because of what the main material is. Puzzled me for ages

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  6. trying to assemble a chair without the instructions and missing 2 bolts, took ages to work out.

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  7. The pronunciation of Brexit. Is it Brecks-it or is it Breggs-it?

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  8. The Sunday Express crossword.

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  9. Where do birds go to die, they never fall out the sky

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  10. I tried to think of something but couldn’t remember. I mentioned to my wife that maybe I have early onset. She said it’s not that early though is it. Cheeky monkey!

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  11. Trying to work out my NI and tax codes this morning!

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  12. The last thing that puzzled me was where my child's board game had disappeared to. I wasn't in the normal place it's kept and I was looking for it for ages. Eventually found it in our car, we had taken it to a friends house and forgot to put it back into our house!

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  13. Something my Mum said yesterday, when I told her it was snowing heavily here. She replied "It's a glorious summer day here!" and I've been wondering ever since how Wigan has managed to organise it to get Summer in February when the rest of us can't.

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  14. The workings of my partner’s mind always puzzles me ����

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  15. How my son always seems to manage to wake up with a dirty face lol

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  16. How the kids can hear me opening a pack of biscuits from upstairs with their room doors shut and the kitchen door shut??!!!!

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  17. The Twitter National Puzzle Day Party was great fun!

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  18. Last weekend my half sink was blocked - water wouldn't go down. Underneath the sink it was leaking from the pipe. If I unscrewed it, it would all clear. But when I tightened it up to stop the leak, the sink then stayed blocked. I had to have one or the other. Totally puzzled me - went on for 2 days. Decided to shine a torch down the sink and stick a wooden skewer down and kept moving it about. Suddenly it all went okay - still puzzled

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  19. I did an escape room with friends yesterday, so much fun, but definitely puzzling. We escaped though so we left happy :) (Alex Telford)

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  20. trying to put up acot bed with my dad

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  21. Clifford Sherwood4 February 2019 at 14:59

    My day at work

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  22. the last sudoku puzzle i tried

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  23. A few years ago I was making a childs dress (fabric) but got stuck as I just couldn't figure out the pattern instructions (neither could my Mum). So I gave up. Will have to dig it out again to have another go .... one day!

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  24. Why my 3 year old will do anything I ask him not to do. Literally anything.

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  25. Why my computer keeps freezing. A puzzle I haven't yet solved!

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  26. My recent crossword book. I just couldnt get my head around the clues!!

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  27. Why my garage door was half open last Sunday morning. Sure that I shut it on Saturday, but puzzled as to why anyone should have opened it but not touched anything.

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  28. Putting up my daughter flat pack cupboard! Totally puzzled me!

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  29. I am always losing things, it drives me mad

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  30. I love doing puzzles in newspapers especially sudoku

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  31. I'm so used to my calculator that I couldn't do simple division in my head!

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  32. How much food my godson managed to eat when he visited

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  33. trying to understand the grading system for GCSE's it was different when i did them letters not numbers

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  34. How my son cannot hear me when I call him to come and do his chores, but if I offer food of any kind, he comes running within seconds.

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  35. A message from my grandson, he always talks in riddles

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  36. The older I get the more puzzled I get, where did I put my keys, hearing aids, glasses, slippers?

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  37. Trying to decipher the text messages from my sister. It's like hieroglyphics. For example 14AA41 apparently means One for all, and all for one.

    I'm sorry it's 2M4m2H (which I made up it's Too much for me to Handle ha ha ha)

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  38. Anything & everything my (autistic) son does! :-)

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  39. Why when i turned my back for a second my 3 year old boy started licking the car!!

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  40. Where to find my spare tyre puzzled me. In the end up I didn't have one

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  41. where did all my money go LOL!

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  42. the last thing that puzzled me was the mail crossword

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  43. Why my 18 year old daughter is too 'ill' for college, but not for clubbing ?!

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  44. How to cut the final piece of worktop in my new kitchen - I had to make a cardboard template because the walls aren't square!

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  45. Trying to understand what my youngest son is explaining to me

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  46. Putting together my new exercise bike with rubbish instructions!

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  47. Karen Von kriegsheim11 February 2019 at 21:09

    My son's maths homework- I really wasn't much help!

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  48. My sister writing something hurtful on one of my instagram posts.

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  49. The last thing that puzzled me was why my daughter was so upset it was cold outside but refused to put on her scarf and hat

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  50. Where my pen went. I was sitting at the table using it. I put it down then went to pick it up again but it'd gone. Still haven't found it!

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  51. My niece's maths homework - thought I was good at algebra, but how quickly you forget when you don't do it everyday!

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  52. Why I can never remember the safe place I put things in.

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  53. my daft dog sandys behaviour continuously puzzles me

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  54. the crossword puzzle in todays newspaper

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  55. Trying to find where the cat keeps hiding

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  56. Hard Sudoku puzzles usually test me!

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  57. The last thing that really puzzled me was how our cat managed to escape from our kitchen, with the door tightly closed, find her way into the under stairs cupboard, also with a door securely closed, and then proceed to get into her treat tin (a metal tin with a metal clasp lid) and leave a trail of scattered treats all around the house!

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  58. my new boss!

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  59. Why my friend keeps walking off without saying goodbye - he's always done it and I've given up trying to track him down, just have to accept his ways!

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  60. Why my kids don't sleep!

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  61. Why my painkillers weren't working- only because I forgot to take them lol

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  62. A Puzzle that I couldn't find a piece.

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  63. Cat's have four legs.

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  64. Where does all the cheese in the fridge disappear to when nobody has eaten any!

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  65. Trying to figure out how to use my daughters tiktok

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  66. My partner. At times I just can't work out how his brain works. The most infuriating man I have ever known.

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  67. how can my kids not hear me when I shout that it's time for bed, but they can here when when I say pocket money time

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  68. rubics cubes do - cant complete more than one side x

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  69. Year 9 GCSE homework for maths, we never did any of the equations my son had in his homework! Luckily he knew how to do it!
    Linda Ford

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  70. The plots of some tv shows that I watch!

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  71. what often puzzles me is why is some plastic packing so difficult to open

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  72. Trying to fix my toaster!

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  73. Why half my radiators are boiling hot and half are freezing cold after we had the heating pump replaced this morning. Grrr!

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  74. I'm currently helping my eldest with a really tricky jigsaw puzzle, lots of pieces the same colour!

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  75. Last thing that puzzled me was a very difficult jigsaw

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  76. How my daughter's book got into the washing machine and ended up going through a full wash cycle, it didn't come out to well!

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  77. How my cat got on the roof of the house.

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  78. It puzzles me when the bus says due in 2 minutes and then disappears and never comes past... WHERE DID IT GOOOO!?

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