An inventor has said how humbling his award-winning board game’s sales have been, despite lockdown rules keeping shops closed. Ian Jenkins and his wife, Penny, had initially kept Colour Block in their loft for 15 years following a series of rejections from board game companies. The Brantham-based inventor - who works as a physiotherapist - revealed how the idea for the mind-boggling game surfaced years ago, but, at the time, various producers turned down his proposal amid concerns it didn’t fit with their portfolio of games. However, Mr Jenkins’ luck changed at the end of 2019. He said: “Just before Christmas in 2019, we saw a catalogue for a business called ‘The Happy Puzzle Company’ and so we took a chance and wrote to the owner, Gavin Ucko.