Jigsaw Puzzle 500 Piece

[Everardo Frost]

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Susan, minister-in-training that she is, concluded our days-long puzzle-building spree with a truly generous pronouncement, her trained observational eye recognizing that jigsaw puzzles, after all, are a group endeavor, best enjoyed in the company of those we love.

Yesterday my elbow caught another glass, soaking a couple dozen pieces in a new puzzle. Desperate not to repeat my glue-sticking, we tried another approach: we kept the connected pieces together, sandwiched the pieces between paper towels, and left it to dry overnight.

Since jigsaw puzzles are mass produced there must be a known solution. However, my interest is not in simply implementing this solution, rather I am curious to know how one might approach this task, aided by Mathematica. I am also interested in alternatives to the standard puzzle piece such as these (even if pieces are not 100% interlocking):

which will morph a long enoug line into a line with a "tongue". It will put the tongue in a random direction for more random generation of puzzle pieces. And some comparison function that will show what points we are adding to wrap BSplineCurve around.

My wife's family has been into jigsaw puzzles for quite some time. So we not only have puzzles from my wife's childhood, but we also have vintage wooden puzzles that belonged to her grandmother and even another family before that. As you might expect, several are missing pieces. "Finishing" a puzzle with missing pieces just isn't as satisfying.

Some people glue together pieces of cardboard, trace out the missing piece on paper, and then cut, test, adjust, shave, test, adjust until it fits. If you have enough skill, you can do this without much patience. Without sufficient skill, a lot of patience is required. In our house, the needed combination of skill and/or patience does not exist.

Place the paper with a contrasting color under the puzzle so that the missing piece is clearly displayed. Place a small ruler on the puzzle near the missing piece. We will use this later to correctly scale the new piece. Take a picture of each missing part. For one puzzle I took a picture from farther away to capture several missing pieces at one time. This doesn't work as well as the shapes that are created later aren't very precise. It works best to stay close a take a picture of one area at a time.

Then create a new layer on top to draw the shape of the piece AND create a ruler shape that we will later use to easily size the piece. You can either use a pen selection to make a black line just inside the shape and then fill it with black, or you can use a "color selection" tool to select the desired area and then fill it with black. In the photo above, there is a screenshot from Procreate where the selection tool has colored the area blue.

On the same layer with the puzzle shape, draw in a black bar over the ruler for some precise size. I used 30mm. This is so we can size the object exactly before 3D printing, knowing that the rectangular black bar should be exactly 30mm long.

In the third picture above, you can see the resulting black and white PNG file that was exported from Procreate. This may sound complicated, but it is quite easy for anyone already familiar with Procreate.

The PNG file looks fine to you and me, but it is made up of pixels. It needs to be converted to a vector file called SVG so that we can turn it into a 3D object with TinkerCad. The SVG file should look exactly the same.

TinkerCad is very good at showing the sizes of objects as you select them on the workplane. Even though our example looks like multiple objects; it is just one object in TinkerCad, and therefore, can be easily resized.

Now, resize the objects so that the rectangular bar is exactly 30mm (or whatever ever you chose in Step 2). You can see in the screen capture above that TinkerCad creates a grid on the workplane and we have resized the bar to be 30mm. In TinkerCad, use the shift key while resizing to maintain left-right and up-down proportions.

You can leave the new pieces as they are, we did. Or you can attach a piece of paper to the top and try to match the original image. I have seen some folks use colored pencils and others have printed out an image of the puzzle (in the correct size!) and glue replacement art on top of the new pieces.

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A bunch of my coworkers have gotten way into assembling jigsaw puzzles during the workday, so I got this idea it'd be fun to bore them with random facts. I'm trying to think of the odds of assembling a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle "perfectly," i.e. choosing each piece such that it fits with one of the pieces already in the puzzle.

Assuming that each piece is exactly 1 square inch, that means we probably have a 40x25" puzzle. Using some basic deduction, I can conclude that this leaves 4 "corner" pieces with two possible connections, 122 "edge" pieces with three possible connections, and 874 internal pieces with four possible connections.

The problem is, I can't figure out how to extrapolate this further, since the next iteration seems like it would depend on which type of piece was chosen. I'm not sure if this is the right approach, because I can envision a scenario where the puzzle is assembled from the center outward, after which every edge piece is guaranteed to fit with probability 1, and I'm not sure how the above sequence could be expanded in a way that accounts for that.

If I could derive the number of possible "perfect" sequences of 999 moves, I could just divide that number by 1000! total possible sequences of selections and that would be the probability. I might be missing something here though, as this line of thinking stands in contrast to this post: Probability of a n-piece puzzle being solved on the first try. Is my reasoning sound? ...which makes the assumption that there's only one possible way to select all pieces that solves it. He also gets into piece orientation which I don't really care about.

I have a number of old 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles I'd like to sell. I'd like to make sure they are complete first. Is there a faster way to determine whether there are exactly 1000 jigsaw pieces than physically picking up and counting every single one of them?

The answer is in the title of this website - Stack.Measure the thickness of one piece, then stack them up and measure the height, place them in a tube, preferably clear, of small enough diameter so the pieces won't fall down the side. A graduated cylinder would be perfect.

I don't know of one. To know the number you should have (it may not be exactly 1000), you can assemble the border. Many puzzles are cut with a rectangular grid and you can multiply the number of rows by the number of columns. Unfortunately, I have also seen a number where the grid is perturbed in a small region of the center and the count is changed by 1 or 2.

With an accurate scale, if you have more than one puzzle in the same series, you could weigh the pieces. The thickness and outer dimensions will be nominally the same. Whether they are controlled within 0.1%, however, may be questionable.

You can take a photo after scattering them on a white background and use any software that uses thermal imaging to count, or use infrared beam by having them slide in a narrow strip at an angle that will interfere with the light registering a 'tick'.

A jigsaw puzzle (with context, sometimes just jigsaw or just puzzle) is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped interlocking and mosaicked pieces, each of which typically has a portion of a picture. When assembled, the puzzle pieces produce a complete picture.

A range of jigsaw puzzle accessories, including boards, cases, frames, and roll-up mats, have become available to assist jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts. While most assembled puzzles are disassembled for reuse, they can also be attached to a backing with adhesive and displayed as art.

Early puzzles, known as dissections, were produced by mounting maps on sheets of hardwood and cutting along national boundaries, creating a puzzle useful for teaching geography.[1] Royal governess Lady Charlotte Finch used such "dissected maps" to teach the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte.[4][5] Cardboard jigsaw puzzles appeared in the late 1800s, but were slow to replace wooden ones because manufacturers felt that cardboard puzzles would be perceived as low-quality, and because profit margins on wooden jigsaws were larger.[1]

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