Piggy Bank Puzzle

Successfully gluing things back together can be highly therapeutic, nay strangely entertaining. But deliberately breaking stuff just so you can fix it seems a tad excessive, wouldn't you say? Thankfully the makers of the Piggy Bank Puzzle have already smashed it to smithereens so you don't have to.

Yes, this really is a broken piggy bank that you glue back together. But the ingenious Piggy Bank Puzzle hasn't been smashed up willy-nilly; nor has it been broken into identical pieces by some computer-controlled sledge-hammer. This impossibly cute ceramic oinker has been hand-broken and placed inside a transparent presentation pot for your reassembling pleasure. All you have to do is get busy with the glue.

Of course it's entirely possible that some sly opportunist simply dropped a crate of piggy banks and had a rather good idea. But we doubt it because the pieces of each Piggy Bank Puzzle fit together extremely neatly once you've figured out where they go.

If all this sounds about as entertaining as gluing a smashed piggy bank together, fear not. The second you start working out what piece goes where, you'll be totally hooked and desperate to reconstruct your porcine pal. And as well as an overwhelming sense of achievement, you'll have a gloriously kitsch piggy bank in which to save your spare change.

So hit Buy pronto. The Piggy Bank Puzzle is a seriously original present for anyone who likes challenges, fiddling with glue and staring at decorative ceramic pigs. And that's just about everyone, isn't it? Oink!