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Lovely and clever pictures Ken. I love jigsaws as they represent chaos and order both at the same time. In my childhood, when sick which called for two weeks in bed, my mother brought me jigsaws but I could do them so quickly that she could ill afford to keep buying them. So she bought four, mixed them up, took the box-pictures away, and set me up! It slowed me down no end, LOL. I wrote about it in my book:

"In order to more easily appreciate and understand what is happening in the financial world, I judged that the notion of a jigsaw is appropriate and will help to simplify an understanding of our complex money systems and their effects upon each of us every day. It is so complex that just one jigsaw might not be enough; perhaps we should try ten instead and see how this works for our clarity of understanding." [Page 26]

"‘Winning’ the lottery of life

Have you ever completed a jigsaw? It’s a game, just like real life, in which we all play games with each other seeking security and peace of mind and for me it is what life can be like. I have lived the jigsaw of life in a very privileged place. A South African once remarked to me: "You’re lucky, you have won the lottery." With disbelief, I denied that I had ever done so, and he responded: "But you were born in the UK and for us that means you have already won the lottery! Albert Einstein claimed that many of his inspirations, created through original thought, were realised by the use of 'mind games'. One of my 'mind games' is about The Financial Jigsaw puzzle."

"The Financial Jigsaw' puzzle mind-game

I want you to imagine a box in which there are ten jigsaws of one thousand pieces each, all mixed up and no picture on the box to help you understand what any one complete jigsaw might look like. Your objective and task is to sort all the individual pieces so as to eventually knit together complete pictures of all ten jigsaws. How would you go about it? What would you do first? Perhaps you might make a plan, a road-map if you will, following a methodology and thus working gradually towards the objective. I have been battling with this problem in the real world for over thirty years, and finally some of the jigsaw’s pieces are beginning to link together, in small sets of two or three items, offering clues to the overall emerging picture." [Pages 27-28]

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So I have "pinned" your post here P&S - if you don't want it pinned, then say as such and I'll "unpin" it. Fair is fair.

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So, with that said I counted up all the puzzles shown above and my mind has become as such that in a way I remember each and every piece in each and every puzzle, but I got a puzzle under the bet in Charlotte with birds in it I need to tend to fore I get to the puzzles recently "ordered" from Amazon.

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I'll tell one puzzle was most difficult and I was laboring away upon it when it turns out my daughter - she is most adept at puzzles - from the moment she was born - said to the family - you know there are clues on the other side of the puzzle - and lo and behold once again I learned about the skill my daughter has.....which puzzle you think this one is P&S?

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It doesn't matter if you proffer a guess - in my life I've been blessed to be surrounded by beautiful women - they bring me so much joy!

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Hi Ken, the best I can do is The Chickens one, so this is my choice and I love chickens as I do all birds which are brighter than we know. We are well ensconced in our new apartment and surrounded by lots of lovely birds of all types and characters. Our new place is a joy to behold!

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Just happened to be online to see this comment P&S - hope you are well.

I too am fond of chickens as is my daughter....in fact, she says she will help me get some situated at the getaway place and we had chickens and ducks in the yard here when she was younger living with us and she still has chickens at her place. So - chickens are big part of my '25 plans and my daughter is expert.

But that was not the correct answer!

(ha, ha....)

There is one puzzle with 3-D sort of looking squiggly lines that form a nice smooth shape but when they were in 100's of pieces....well, not an easy puzzle. The "sort of mistake" I made is usually "Step 1" is to just go ahead and get all the pieces face up and somewhat sorted......and as I was doing this I must not have even paid attention to the "nomenclature" on the backs of the pieces that greatly simplified bringing that puzzle to completion after I had finished the border and some of the corners and my daughter pointed it out to me......

It was a piece of cake finishing the puzzle after that.

Warm Regards,

Ken

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Well, I share your love of beautiful ladies and my wife is a living example (but I would say that)! And I am so touched that you have pinned up my jigsaw copy - it's a great compliment for me Ken - thank you.

And to have such talented children is a great blessing which I share with you. And your writing/pictures brings me great joy too, Ken - in many ways :-)

I will study your pics this weekend - it will take some thought to choose one.

Blessings

AP

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If I had 10 jigsaw puzzles of 1000 pieces each making for 10000 pieces total - 10000 pieces.

First I would disassociate them based on a simple attribute such as the "hue" of the piece - you know like in laundry sometimes they separates the light colors from the darker ones - for the sake of the pieces being laundered to hold onto their shade I reckon - same goes for a puzzle like the on you describe.

Second - in the act of doing this I would come to discover more "nuance" in what separates one puzzle from another - and then I would commence to that effort.

Third - as pieces evident reveal themselves to be connected, by all means make connections, but the first task needs to be to separate the 10 puzzles - then one by one connect them up.

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Warm Regards to you P&S Sir!

Ken

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Thank you Ken, you are a stunning thinker and the only one to have noted the significance of jigsaws - is everyone asleep? Your process is bang on and in fact reflects the way I approached my thesis. First, identify the 'blocks' as per my Contents list. Then dig into each one, looking for connections, internal, and external to other blocks.

The Financial Jigsaw sort of came together after five years, 2013-18, but there remain many missing pieces - left for another time!

Blessings

AP

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OK - the one piece I fabricated was in the "chicken puzzle" - and I'm going to take a closer picture of it now......real close.....and then I will share it - cause I doubt anybody could find this with the images above - I know it is there, but I couldn't find it - and I'm the one who made it....so, I'm going to take a serious close-up of this part of the puzzle - and share this and keep the silver Buffalo for myself for the time being!

So, I'm going to leave this text here "unposted" - let me go take the picture first....ok, I've taken two pictures - as soon as they arrive in my "inbox" I will copy them to the folder, then click "Post" on this and then add them to the end of the article.

So now - I'm just waiting....ok they have arrived.

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Most beautiful! And as an avid puzzler I am really impressed. Puzzle on. The atmosphere carries over the screen. What a lovely place you have! Cheers!

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I know this is not a "fair" question - but since you seem to enjoy puzzles, there is 1 piece and one piece only I had to fabricate in one of the puzzles above - I got a fine Buffalo 1-troy ounce coin to send on my own nickel to whoever tells me the piece I fabricated in one of the puzzles above!

ha, ha.....

Ken

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ps - I'm looking at it now - the resolution of the image - I don't think there is any way to tell about the 1 piece I had to fabricate. I could give a clue, but why should I. If you are here in person you might have enough resolution to figure out the piece fabricated, but let me say.....a cut out a bit of cardboard....used some coloring utensils I have on hand....shaded the piece and clued it in.....I couldn't even tell it was there when I looked at the image above that contains it.....so how could anybody else?

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As far as I can tell it would be the Chicken puzzle. 😊

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I seriously remember when I lost that piece - at some point a puzzle close to being finished - well.....there comes a time when one has to take "matters" into ones own hands.....so I fabricated that one piece.....colored it....painted it....once or maybe twice.....squeezed the piece into place...and really - it ain't easy to find that piece nowadays, so I consider that - "job well done"!

Peace!

Ken

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Thanks!

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