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Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec's most famous novel, tells as pieces of a puzzle a story about a jigsaw puzzle maker. Jigsaw Puzzle (song), sometimes spelled "Jig-Saw Puzzle" is a song by the rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet.
Stories include: The furry collar, The black velvet ribbon, The boarder, The ten claws, The jigsaw puzzle, The face, The mirror, The Egyptian coffin, The old plantation, Phobia, The train through Transylvania, The attic door, The tunnel of terror, The fortune teller, The stuffed dog, A free place to sleep, The gooney birds.
Curious George Goes to the Hospital is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1966.It is the seventh and final book in the original Curious George series, and tells the story of George's experiences in a hospital after swallowing a jigsaw puzzle piece.
"Europe divided into its kingdoms, etc." (1766) Believed to be the first purpose-made jigsaw puzzle. John Spilsbury (/I.P.A. spɪlsbəri/ 1739 – 3 April 1769) [1] was a British cartographer and engraver. He is credited as the inventor of the jigsaw puzzle. Spilsbury created them for educational purposes, and called them "Dissected Maps". [2] [3]
"Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 1992. [1] The New York Times considered it to be "cleverly plotted, economically rendered and emotionally astute". [2] The Sun-Sentinel found it "as demanding as any so-called metafiction". [3]
Other puzzles feature pictures which portray parts of the story or even clues to other puzzles. The Sun's Map in the Macintosh version. The first chapter, The Sun, features the puzzle The Sun's Map. This is a jigsaw puzzle with one piece for every chapter in the story; each puzzle piece appears only when the appropriate chapter is unlocked.