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Always start with the edges. 
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Buying jigsaw for children is outsourcing, right?
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. . . and being called upon to look for the missing pieces . . . priceless !
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best done with assistance of grandma and grandpa 
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Greetings from Germany
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Jigsaws with pictures are way too easy.
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Are you an Accountant?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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No but I am working with an accountant at the moment, does it show?
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I was referencing the movie The Accountant starring Ben Affleck. The character is on the autism spectrum and is great with numbers. One scene when the character is a child he completes a good sized jigsaw puzzle while his parents are talking to the director of a facility specializing in teaching the autistic. The shot is positioned so the camera is looking up at the character while he does the puzzle. You only get to see that he has done it with the picture against the table when the puzzle is finished.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I suggest you try to do them under water and see if that adds enough to the difficulty.
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White-water inverted jig-sawing, jig-sawing with the dolphins (bet they'd be really good), in outdoor swimming events each competitor could be given a jigsaw piece to show they'd completed a section (some consolation for being in last place you get to put in the last piece), the possibilities are endless....Brilliant Idea!
Would you make the pieces positively or negatively buoyant, or maybe randomly one or the other - which would make free-dive jig-sawing especially difficult.
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You need to have wooden pieces rather than cardboard because the card ones wooden float.
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I, like most person's who've ever done a real live jigsaw puzzle start with the edges - as we all have learned (one way or another) you must attend to the boundary conditions.
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modified 1-Mar-21 10:20am.
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I'd call edge pieces a class.
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That depends upon if the puzzle has an image and what it is. Or, rather, what sort of "Objects" it has. The general case, however, is not object oriented.
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One of the best jigsaws I ever did - before we got a cat, they and jigsaws are not a good combination - was an odd one: the picture on the box was a crowd of people looking surprised / shocked / whatever at something you couldn't see. The picture on the jigsaw was the scene rotated 180 degrees so you could see what they were looking at and the backs of the crowd ...
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And what were they looking at?
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What would have been perfect would be a working mirror - tearing down the boundary between solving a puzzle and being part of it.
Further expansion on this theme would be good for a "Grade B" horror movie's entire plot.
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a subset of "divide and conquer" 
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Greetings from Germany
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Yep. I've gotten into solving them in COVIDland and retirement. Generally, I'll work on the borders and collect similar-looking interior pieces to get small "clumps" which fit into the puzzle later.
To keep with the development analogy, I think it is like bounding the problem and then iterating on the details.
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Painfully joining into your extension of my post:
The sorted clumps are your functions and the remainder, within the main() frame are for instances of the functions.
And to all readers, I apologize for extending this.
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And Brute force = King of problem solving, unless efficiency is a requirement.
System requirements are not high either, can work great even for braindead and lazy programmers. 
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organize all the pieces with straight edges and corner pieces first, and then further organize those by color and pattern.
Then organize all other pieces by color/pattern.
Don't write any software apps to do this as it takes all the fun out of it.
Try your hardest to complete the puzzle without referring to the picture on the box.
Proceed to go mildly insane for an indefinite period of time.
rinse. repeat.
modified 1-Mar-21 7:23am.
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Ye. Yes. Yes. Always edges first.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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It took me a lot of self control to select between the serious ones  I learnt from my puzzle-junkie mother, who always used divide et impera. Start from the frame pieces, then classify the pieces and solve portions of the image.
She completed a 12700 and a 19000 pieces puzzle, it was glorious.
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I'm with your Mum there. That is the way I solve them.
I don't know I have ever seen puzzles with that many pieces.
How long did the largest one take her?
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