What could be nicer than curling up all toasty and warm indoors on a cold and wintery day, poring over edge pieces and, in the case of the upmarket Wentworth wooden puzzles that can no doubt be found in cupboards in all of the Queen’s castles, the delightful addition of specially shaped ‘whimsy’ pieces. 

Putting aside the Christmas wish-list, (Wentworth’s 750-piece Christmas Cats will do nicely, thanks), Overmatter has now been introduced to a whole new world of jigsaw madness thanks to Angela Derbyshire, production director at Wardour. 

Angela alerted us to a tweet by John Overholt, curator of early modern books and manuscripts at Harvard’s Houghton Library, which in turn linked to this Boing Boing article (bit.ly/PWBBJigsaw) looking at the whacky puzzle montages made by Tim Klein, who’s worked out that much merriment can be had once you realise that standard puzzles use the same die-cut pattern again and again. 

While it looks like Tim has had a lot of fun doing this, the thought of subsequently trying to reunite the pieces in the correct boxes is filling us with the opposite of Christmas cheer.