Use this The Happy Puzzle Company promotional code to get three puzzles for the price of two. A nice way to stock up on some quality gifts for future use, particularly if you have more than one child to buy for.

Click here to use your The Happy Puzzle Company promotional code

• Discount: 3 for price of 2
• Applies to: selected puzzles
• Promotional code: SP13
• Expires: 31st August 2013

To use the Happy Puzzle Company code go to the Shopping Basket page and enter it in the box provided. It will be applied automatically to your order.

I tested it out on three of one kind of product and it worked just fine. It will also work if you mix and match. The code takes the price of the lowest item off your bill. It can't be used in conjunction with any other promotional codes I'm afraid.

Thanks to Syzable at HUKD!

I first told you about these Mega Bloks 3D Breakthrough puzzles last month - a Mickey Mouse one and a Hello Kitty one.  This Marvel Avengers version is, I think, the best one by far but it's not been discounted until now.

That said, Amazon keep fiddling with the price - at the time of writing it's £9.49, rather than £14.99; if it's gone up by the time you get here don't dismiss it, just keep an eye and pounce when it goes back down again.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Mega Bloks 3D Breakthrough Marvel Avengers Puzzle*

One hundred pieces make up this Mega Bloks 3D Breakthrough Marvel Avengers Puzzle and brings a whole new dimension to jigsaw puzzles - a third dimension, in fact!  Here's what you do:

1. Piece together the two-dimensional background image, as you would with a traditional puzzle; but then
2. Clip the 3D elements onto the top of the background to turn it into a 3D puzzle masterpiece

I love puzzles, so this sounds awesome to me and will definitely engage young puzzlers who've got a little bored with normal puzzles - the only downside is traditional puzzles never quite being 'enough' again!

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD

Debenhams are selling this Bob the Builder Bumper Puzzle Pack for £5.40, its original full price was £18 - that's a lot of puzzle for your money right there!

• Click HERE to take a look at the Bob the Builder Bumper Puzzle Pack *

It's amazing, you know, I could have sworn I'd written about this Bob the Builder Bumper Puzzle Pack before but, having looked through the archives, it turns out I haven't written about any Bob the Builder puzzles...EVER!

SO, here we go for a first: this Bob the Builder Bumper Puzzle Pack is...well, a bumper pack of Bob the Builder puzzles - it really doesn't get much more obvious than that!

There are 10 little puzzles, with 19 and 20 pieces each, in the box and all feature everyone's favourite Bob characters.  Muck was always my favourite, along with Pilchard the cat.

You really can't go wrong with puzzles: they're fun, they're satisfying to do and complete and they develop a whole host of skills - problem solving, sorting, pattern recognition - in the process.

You can arrange to collect your Bob the Builder Bumper Puzzle Pack from your nearest Debenhams store for free, or you can choose standard delivery for free too - Debenhams' standard delivery is within four days.

Thanks to robston78 at HUKD

Look up puzzles or floor puzzles posts in the PlayPennies archives and you'll find I've written at least 50% of them; I ADORE puzzles of any variety and this Dear Zoo floor puzzle - £7.99 instead of £8.99 - would make a great companion pressie for the Dear Zoo Animal Shapes board book I told you about yesterday.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Dear Zoo floor puzzle *

Yes I know it's only got £1 off the recommended retail price but, you know, puzzles are so great and get so much use that their full price is worth paying just as much - at least that's what I think, argue with me if you wish!

So why are puzzles so great?  Well, for starters, they're fun!  They also help to develop fine motor skills - due to sorting out corners from the edges and the middle bits - along with pattern recognition and problem solving ability.

Then, of course, there's the sense of achievement and triumph you get when you place that final piece into place; just awesome.

This Dear Zoo floor puzzle features 24 pieces which are big, chunky and robust enough to withstand the attention of enthusiastic youngsters.

All of the usual Amazon delivery options apply - free, if you don't mind waiting a few days; or paid for, in various amounts, if you need/want it pronto.

Happy floor puzzling!

The Works are selling these Charlie and Lola 'My First Scene' puzzles for £2.99 - a perfect little 'something' for keeping young kids amused before they go back to school.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Charlie and Lola 'My First Scene' puzzles

Whether your little one is going back to school or heading off to school for the first time, if they're Charlie and Lola fans then they're bound to enjoy these Charlie and Lola 'My First Scene' puzzles.

There are three eight-piece puzzles to complete and then questions to answer about the scene they've just put together - they've been designed to help with letters and words, addition, numbers and counting along with pattern recognition.

To celebrate the relief that is kids going back to school, if you add the code SCHOOL to your basket before you check out The Works won't charge you for delivery.

Thanks to adslis at HUKD 

Okay, so maths weren't my forte back in school, but I do think that if something is half it's original price, and you can take up to 15% off with a voucher code, then that's 65% off, right? I hope so, otherwise that's a misleading headline, but I'm going with it.

Mothercare have 50% off some of their puzzles, bringing starting prices down to as low as £2.50 for some of the baby sets. With the voucher code below, you can also take 10% off if you buy 3 items, or 15% off if you buy 5. Not everything in the puzzles section is reduced, however, so keep an eye on that. Those items that aren't half price can still be reduced by the 10  - 15% though.

Take a load off at Mothercare

• Discount: 10% on three items or 15% on five items
• Discount Code: SAS

So, if you're buying baby puzzles, you could get a Number Puzzle (was £7.00), an Alphabet Puzzle  (was £7.00) and a Jungle Puzzle (was £5.00) for £9.50 instead of £19.00. Take another 10% off of the £9.50 and your price for the three puzzles is just £8.55 and delivery is included for free.

Add another two items, like the  ELC Cottage Lift Out Puzzle (originally £8) and the ELC Wallop A Worm Game (also £8) and take 15% off everything - bringing  your basket to £21.66.

BUT! Be careful how you do it, because if you buy those last two puzzles in a separate order, you'd save £6 on them (they're 2 for 10) and your delivery is free anyway, so just spend a bit of time on it and see what gets you the best deal.

Thanks to qwertycrazy at HUKD

The Early Learning Centre are letting Little Charley Bear 3 in a Box puzzles go for £2.50 instead of their usual £4.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Little Charley Bear 3 in a Box puzzles

Jigsaw puzzles have to be one of my favourite thing for kids; they're so simple - they don't contain any technology, don't require any batteries and don't have flashing light or annoying bells and whistles.

They help to develop hand eye coordination, pattern recognition, problem solving and fine motor skills - all in all, they're just GREAT!

I didn't know anything about Little Charley Bear until recently - according to my youngest son and his six-year-old wisdom, "he's too 'babyish' for me!" - so I beetled off to see what he was all about and, WOW, he is a cute little chap!

He's a computer animated Bear who goes off on lots of role play adventures and has a rather smashing time; I loved him and almost wish I had someone young enough to buy this Little Charley Bear 3 in a Box puzzle for.

Three puzzles (you'd worked that bit out already, I'm sure!) feature Little Charley Bear, Caramel the cow and Nibblit the bunny and have six, nine and 12 pieces.

They're suitable for Little Charley Bear fans aged three and over and standard delivery is free.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD

There’s a 10-In-A-Box Everything's Rosie Jigsaw available at Amazon for just £2.69 which is 73% off of usual  £9.99 and includes free postage.

• Everything’s Rosie when you have 10 Jigsaws in One

Actually, just writing the words makes me cringe, because every time I hear the theme tune for Everything’s Rosie, it sticks in my head for days on end, and while it’s a cute tune, it’s enough to drive me insane.

It is sweet though, and any fans of the show will love this box set, which includes 6, 8, 10 and 12 piece jigsaws.

The set contains pictures of Rosie and all her friends, so when they’re all built,  you have the whole range of characters.

It seems as if the 10 puzzles fit together to make one large flower shaped jigsaw.

At this price, it’s a brilliant way to kill a couple of hours on these horribly rainy days!

Thanks to staronthebluesky at HUKD

Amazon have a half price offer on this cute Smurfs puzzle from Pressman, which they’re selling at £1.73 instead of £3.49. The offer, of course, includes free delivery, so it’s a lovely price for a little something to put away for the predicted rainy May days!

• Go to town with The Smurfs  

This Pressman Smurfs jigsaw puzzle is a 24-piec puzzle, suitable for ages 3 and above. It has a built size of 38.1cm by 31.75cm and will be lots of fun for both a puzzle lover and a Smurf lover.

Kids are pretty amazing, actually, especially when their capabilities far exceed our expectations of them. We were in a playgroup last week where my two year old was happily building a 16-piece puzzle aimed at the 3+ crowd. She needed a bit of guidance with the middle pieces, but trial and error on her side and she accomplished it, and proudly so!

Reviewers say the box is very small, which I must admit makes it even more desirable in my book – who really needs additional space taken up if it’s not necessary!

Happy rainy day puzzling!

Thanks to wishihadadonkey @ HUKD

My heart always jumps for joy when I come across a great jigsaw puzzle deal; if I were to write a Top 10 kid's toys list, jigsaw puzzles would be right up there  near the top.

This Where In The Wood puzzle has SO many benefits, aside from just puzzle-putting-togethering - in fact, I'm going to buy it for my youngest son so that we can do it together.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Where in the Wood puzzle

SO, 150 pieces make up a detailed woodland scene and there are a whole host of animal images in the jigsaw border - your task, once you've put the puzzle together, is to FIND those animals in the picture.

There is so much else you can talk about too - how many toadstools are there? Is it summer or winter in the wood? What colours are the flowers?  I mean, really, the list goes on and on and will very neatly shoehorn plenty of learning, observation and literacy skills into something that's fun.

Can you tell I'm a fan? The usual price for this Where in the Wood puzzle is £9.75; if you're quick, and Amazon leave the price alone for more than five minutes, then you can pick one up for £5.32 instead; marvellous.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD

Amazon are selling this Peppa Pig giant story puzzle for £3.92 - its usual price is £6.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Peppa Pig giant story puzzle

You know what?  I'm going to go out and buy myself a puzzle today - not a Peppa Pig giant story puzzle but a puzzle I can really lose myself in when I need to clear my mind of all the chaos that's currently inhabiting it!

Puzzles are great for that, but when you're small you (hopefully!!) don't have mental clutter to banish so you can concentrate on just having fun and learning lots of new skills without realising it.

Pattern recognition, problem solving, shape sorting and fine motor skills are some of the skills playing with puzzles can help develop, let alone the massive sense of satisfaction that comes with placing that final puzzle piece and completing the picture.

Twenty pieces make up this Peppa Pig story puzzle and includes 10 large story pieces, with backgrounds depicting the different seasons, and 10 smaller shaped pieces featuring different Peppa Pig characters and objects to put together within the larger story board pieces.

The word 'giant' isn't used loosely either - the Peppa Pig Giant Story Puzzle measures a whopping one metre in length and is 15cm high.  I think it sounds rather fab', but don't take my word for it have a read of this review from an existing owner - it's quite long, but worth it..

If you pop over to MailOrderExpress you'll be able to pick up this Waybuloo Butterfly peg puzzle for just £1.99, it's usual retail price is £7.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Waybuloo Butterfly peg puzzle

It's no secret, here on PlayPennies, that I'm a serious puzzle fan - it doesn't matter whether they're super simple, like this Waybuloo Butterfly peg puzzle, or contain a mammoth 1000 pieces, I love them all.

For little tiny ones, this Waybuloo Butterfly peg puzzle will help them develop their fine motor skills; their pattern recognition abilities will be tested and developed through identifying which butterfly piece fits into which butterfly space.

The beauty of these very early days puzzles is they are just enough to hold a young child's interest, tricky enough to make them think without it being too difficult causing them to give up.

I've never bought anything from MailOrderExpress before so I quickly ran through the process, and was rather surprised when a 'sign in to your Amazon account' window popped up!

I duly did and discovered that standard delivery is going to cost an additional £1.99.  Not only that, if you enter SALE2012 into the promotion box 20 pence will be deducted from the total - so, all in, you're going to be paying £3.78 for your Waybuloo Butterfly peg puzzle.

It was rather nice not to have to fill in all my address and payment details as they're all held on my Amazon account; fabulous.

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD

Tesco are selling this Melissa and Doug Vehicle Sound puzzle for £5.96 instead of the usual £9.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Melissa and Doug Vehicle Sound puzzle

Now you should know by now that I'm a bit of a puzzle fan; you should also know, if you're a regular PlayPennies reader anyway, that I'm not a fan of toys with bells, whistles, buzzers or unnecessary flashing lights - I'm a bit of a toy purest.

So it might come as a surprise when I say...I think this Melissa and Doug Vehicle Sound puzzle looks FAB, because it requires two AAA batteries to make NOISE.  Yes, a puzzle (which I love) that makes noise (that I don't usually love).

When your little one matches the vehicle puzzle piece to its space and puts the two together, the puzzle will make the noise of that vehicle; awesome.  A perfect way to reinforce the correct action along with cause and effect.

You can collect our Melissa and Doug Vehicle Sound puzzle for free in-store and I really wouldn' t bother with being ripped off £5 for home delivery, even if it is next day delivery - I don't care, it's just not worth it for a fiver.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD 

There’s a bumper pack of puzzles from Bob The Builder on offer at Debenhams at the moment for £4.50 instead of £18. Apply the code below and you’ll receive a further 45p off, leaving you with just £4.05 to pay since standard delivery is currently free too.

Can you build it? Yes you can! With Bob The Builder’s Bumper Puzzle Pack

• Discount: 10%
• Expires: Unknown
• Promotion Code: DB2U (case sensitive)

Aimed at the 3 years and up crowd, the Bob The Builder Bumper Puzzle Pack from Ravensburger contains ten puzzles in one box.  There are four 20-piece puzzles and six 49-piece puzzles.

Unfortunately I don’t know Bob and his crew well enough to wax lyrical about the portrait style pictures, but I can tell you that they are all images of smiley happy machines doing their building thing.  Bob the Builder appears in some of the pictures, but not all, and the machines all seem happy enough to be entertaining our young.

If you have an avid puzzle builder on your Christmas gift list, I don’t know that you can go wrong with 10 puzzles for £4.05.

Thanks to Speculator at HUKD

Marks and Spencer are currently selling a selection of 41 games with two different discounts running – some of the games are 50% off and some are included in a 3 for 2 mix and match.

• Pop over to M&S for all your Christmas entertainment from £1.25

So say you buy the Wallace & Gromit Rocket Race Game for £15 and the 3D Family Games Compendium for £15 and you add the Panini Table Football for £19.50, you’ll receive £15 off the first two games, but it doesn’t look as though you’ll get the 3 for 2 offer. You will, however, get free delivery (takes care of £3.50) and your order total will be £34.50.

If you buy the Crazee Cube, the Metal Puzzle (both of which would make excellent stocking fillers) and some Terry O’Neill playing cards, your order total would be £16.50, but the cheapest item would be free – the playing cards  were £3.50 – so your order is now £13.  On this you have to add delivery unless you’re picking up in store though.

Your best bet is to have a play around then, and see whether it’d be better for you to go for the 50% off offer, or the 3 for 2 offer, and if you’re picking up in store, to perhaps do two transactions.

Happy playing!

Thanks to sancho1983 at HUKD

I do not like Green Eggs and Ham but I would like this Green Eggs and Ham Floor Puzzle that's on sale with The Book Depository for £4.99 rather than £8.99.

• Click HERE to get your own Green Eggs and Ham floor puzzle

Of all the Dr Seuss stories, Green Eggs and Ham is probably my favourite - there's even a French version, "Je n'aime pas les ouefs vert et jambon!", funny - and I think a Green Eggs and Ham floor puzzle makes a nice change from the usual In the Night Garden or Chuggington ones.

A Green Eggs and Ham floor puzzle would also make a nice accompaniment to the book if you have it already, or you could buy a copy of it as well and bundle them up together.

As a story, Green Eggs and Ham is great for teaching children to recognise words through repetition and rhyme; a Green Eggs and Ham floor puzzle will teach them pattern recognition (sorting out the corners and edges from the tricky middle bits), problem solving (working out which bit goes where) and fine motor skills (the actual putting it together).

I love puzzles, I love Green Eggs and Ham (the story, not for real), I love this Green Eggs and Ham floor puzzle and I love that there's no postage to pay either, to anywhere in the world; marvellous!

We received something rather unusual and unique to review for you this week: 3D BreakThrough Puzzles.

Now, we all know what puzzles are, and what a good experience sitting together building a puzzle can be. There’s always such a sense of excitement as the final pieces start coming together, and such a sense of achievement when the last piece slots in. And then… well, that’s the question. What then? Do you break it up piece by piece? Do you break it up in sections for when you ‘one day’ decide what to do with it? Do you frame it?

My dad took my mum’s two favourite round puzzles and actually made coffee tables for her out of wood, then framed them into the tables. They were gorgeous and are still used as coffee tables in their house – but there are only so many coffee tables you can make.

Then came along 3D BreakThrough Puzzles, definitely the next generation of puzzles, bringing your 2D puzzles to life.

This Peppa Pig Duo Jigsaw Puzzle is a lovely looking gift for a Peppa Pig fan. The box contains two puzzles, one with twelve pieces and another with twenty-four.  It’s currently on offer at £3.99 instead of £6.99.

•  Have double the fun with Peppa and George and the rest of the sty

It’s pretty self-explanatory really – two puzzles, one with twelve pieces and one with twenty four, suitable from ages three and up.  The puzzles both measure 23cm by 19cm, so around an A4 page in size, and come in a box that acts as a carry case too.

The winter theme of the 24-piece puzzle will go well with the season, and the 12-piece summer picnic set will give you something to look forward to.

The reviews are really mixed on this one – some say it looks cheap, some say the box is too big for the quantity of puzzles (??) and some say it’s fantastic and the kids love it. It’s a cheapy, and makes a good stocking filler, but don’t expect  miracles, I say.

Thanks to shadow1 at HUKD

Tesco are selling Harry Potter Micro Puzzles for £1.74; their usual full retail price is £5.97 which is, pretty much, what all the other usual suspects are selling them for at the moment.

• Click HERE for this magic deal

I've been looking for something to buy my mum for Christmas for a little while now; she's notoriously difficult to buy for because a) she doesn't want anything, b) she doesn't need anything and c) if she ever does want, or need, anything she'll just buy it herself.

She is one of THE biggest Harry Potter fans I know - properly obsessed - and also loves doing puzzles, so, as a little token something just to mark the occasion, a couple of Harry Potter Micro Puzzles will fit the bill perfectly.

There are six 150-piece jigsaw puzzles each featuring a poster for the films from the Philosopher's Stone through to the Half Blood Prince; if you manage to collect all of them (you can't choose which one you get I'm afraid) then you can join them altogether in their jigsaw style frame.

They're 19cms high by 15cms wide and 5cms deep; suitable for anyone who's a Harry P fan and more than four years old and can be ordered/paid for online and collected in-store for freeee (you have to say that in your best Dobby voice when he was set free with a sock in the Chamber of Secrets!).

Thanks to lucersymum at HUKD

Ravensburger have brought out a limited edition Christmas puzzle for 2011. It's called Which Way Santa and is a perfect build-up to Christmas puzzle – no pun intended – to set the mood for the big day, I think. It's reduced by 23% from £12.99 to £9.99 including postage, so could make a lovely family project for Boxing Day too.

• Show Santa the way with the Limited Edition puzzle from Ravensburger

Which Way Santa is a 1000 piece puzzles with richly detailed, sturdy puzzle pieces made from strong premium grade cardboard, with linen finish print to minimise glare on puzzle image. It was illustrated by British artist Roy Trower, and is probably quite complex with all it's small details, which is why it's suitable from ages 12 and up.

Once built the puzzle measures a respectible 70 x 50 cm, so you'll need a nice working surface to start off with.

I never know what to actually do with puzzles once they're built. It seems like such an anticlimax to just break them up again, but you can't exactly frame every puzzle you ever build... unless you have storage space and can rotate them? Either way, puzzles are great for seeing a project come to fruition, and apparently good for developing logic and so on. And then there's the fact that they're good, interactive family fun, and this gorgeous Which Way Santa is sure to set the mood.