...so the end of 2025 was all a bit rubbish for us and I didn't end up having enough time to pull together the traditional puzzle, but as I was putting together the Merry Christmas notice, it just didn't feel right to do nothing at all... so I spent a little while and hid a little challenge in there and didn't tell anyone about it.
I was delighted a couple of days later when Brendan P reached out with the attached pic:
...apparently he's also a big fan of Hashimoto-san's 4L.
Not believing that there really wasn't a puzzle, and thinking that my fonts looked a bit janky, he'd spent a while fiddling around in Photoshop and found my challenge: "Using the medium of TANGRAM, tell me what your favourite puzzle is." - it's a bit clearer in Brendan's edited version below:
...some puzzles are winging their way to Brendan for his amusement.
Wishing you a wonderfully puzzling 2026!
