Recently, we mentioned that we had finally found an item worthy to be presented as the grand prize for our December Quizvitational.

As the the in-the-know already know, trivia-pasha Soren "Scraps" DeSelby has been patiently, nay, more than patiently waiting, for months and and weeks and some more incidental months now, for news of his just deserts after trouncing all comers in our answerfest just before the new year.

We now announce that, to mark his achievement, Mr. DeSelby will be presented with an artifact so singular and powerful in nature that, when it arrived through a bizarre chain of events at the Wombat Home Office, it was almost instantly recognized as The Grand Prize.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present the Most Disturbing Children's Puzzle Ever, the work of an anonymous (for now) artist/artisan, at work depicting a scene we believe is best entitled "Mr. Pig, At Last Undone by Pyromania."

Click on the image to view the large-scale pictorial cataclysm.

Injured tots are, of course, an immortal subject when it comes to kids-puzzle-making. One supposes that these efficient EMTs are ducks. But then one looks again at the feet, and realizes that all supposition here is futile.

Here, however, is the true focus of the puzzle, and the stamp of the Nameless Genius what painted it. Many is the time I have tried to visualize what a pig, shivering with guilt over the recent commission of an unalterable mistake or, worse, a dreadfully purposeful act of destruction, would look like. Behold, in a form which also helps the toddler with his or her mastery of spatial relations, the very picture of porcine shame!

Congratulations, Scraps! Please come and claim your genuine piece of Outsider Art at any time!