Three puzzles share one tray here, and they are pitched at three different ages. A two-year-old lifts the knobbed shapes out by their pegs. A five-year-old works the tangram square. An older child fills the big colour grid on the left. In a house with more than one child, that is the reason this board gets used instead of shelved.

The largest section is a grid of coloured blocks in interlocking shapes — L-shapes, T-shapes, squares, long bars — that all have to sit flat inside the frame with no gap. It is the section that takes longest, and because pieces repeat, the same grid can be filled a different way the second time.

The top right holds a classic tangram: seven flat pieces — two large triangles, a medium triangle, two small triangles, a square and a rhomboid — that make the square shown in the tray and, once a child gets confident, a house, a bird or a running figure on the table beside it. Tangram is the section adults reach for.

The bottom right is the toddler section: six shapes, each with a small wooden peg to grip. A pink square, a yellow triangle, a purple circle, a blue heart, a green trapezium and a red pentagon, each in its own cut recess. The peg is what lets a child too young for jigsaw pieces take part on the same board as an older sibling.

It is a flat wooden tray, so it stacks with school books and slides into a bag. Everything stores inside its own recess, which is the practical reason a three-in-one board survives longer than three separate puzzles: there is one thing to tidy away, not three.

The board is engraved Three In One Puzzle across the top. No age or size is printed on it; we suggest three years and up, and an adult nearby for younger children, because the tangram and grid pieces are small. The Safencia price is Rs. 750 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan, including Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

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