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Bob Armstrong was awarded AGPC’s prestigious Spilsbury Award at our 2013 annual convention in Savannah, Georgia, on 3 May. The Spilsbury Award is presented to renowned individuals who have provided ongoing, lifetime contributions to the development, preservation, and research of jigsaw puzzles. Anne Williams, herself a Spilsbury Award recipient in 2007, presented the Spilsbury...
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Helen Andrews presented AGPC’s prestigious Sam Loyd Award to Will Shortz at our 2012 annual convention in Charleston, South Carolina. © 2012 Helen S. Andrews When I was first asked if I would present the Sam Loyd award to Will Shortz, I thought, “What can I say that hasn’t already been said or written...
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On 30 April 2011 AGPC presented Herb Levy, Founder and President of Gamers Alliance, with the AGPC’s 2011 Bradley-Parker Award. The Gamers Alliance has served gamers in the past 25 years by providing hard-hitting reviews of games and also connecting gamers to out-of-print games.
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© 2009 by Anne D. Williams. Presented by Martha Folsom to Tom Tyler on board the Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas cruise ship during AGPC’s 2010 annual convention on board the ship. It is an honor to pay tribute to Tom Tyler, who today is receiving our Spilsbury Award for lifetime achievement. I...
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At our 25th anniversary convention in Providence, Rhode Island, on 24 April 2009, the AGPC presented the Sam Loyd Award for mechanical puzzle excellence to puzzle designer Kagen Schaefer. Jerry Slocum presented the Sam Loyd Award to Kagen Schaefer on behalf of the AGPC. Here are Jerry’s words: It is my great pleasure to...
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Bruce Whitehill is AGPC’s 2008 recipient of the Bradley-Parker Award (for games). He is the founder of the Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors. His contribution to the field of games extends well beyond his founding of the AGPC. Bruce has invented (and continues to invent) games for companies such as Milton Bradley, Talicor,...
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“On behalf of the AGPC it is my great pleasure to present the Spilsbury Award to Anne Williams, as an acknowledgment of her enormous contributions to the AGPC and to the world” for being “the world’s foremost expert on jigsaw puzzles”. Those remarks by Jerry Slocum set the stage for Jerry and Mark Cappitella to...
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Jerry Slocum, world-renowned mechanical puzzle collector, historian, and writer, received the prestigious Sam Loyd Award on April 1, 2006 at the AGPC’s annual convention in Cambridge, Mass. The Loyd Award is awarded by AGPC to an individual who, as an entrepreneur, has been responsible for the promotion of mechanical puzzles through their design, development, or...
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