Article: Connect the edge pieces. Look for pieces that might have copyright information that you can put together in a corner of the puzzle. Start filling in the middle after you’ve assembled the frame. Consult the picture on the box as you work on the puzzle. Study the details on the box to help you make smaller sub-piles from the pieces in the larger piles of colors and like-shaped pieces you’ve sorted. Look to see where the objects you start putting together belong in the picture. Use your colored piles to complete various chunks of the puzzle. Start with pieces that are large swaths of the puzzle such as a group of blues that represent the sky. Look for pieces that will form easily identifiable objects, like houses or animals. Tabs are the parts that jut out of the pieces, and blanks are their counterpart. Find tabs and blanks that will fit together -- you’ll quickly recognize how the pieces match. Check for repeating patterns of how the tabs and blanks are put together in your puzzle. Use these patterns to speed up your assembly. Don’t try to make the pieces fit. If they don’t go together easily, it’s because they do not belong in that position. Put them approximately where they go inside the frame according to the picture on the box. Build on the sections that you’ve already completed. Fill in the gaps around the different completed sections to finish your puzzle.

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Construct the frame with the outside pieces. Use the picture on the box to orient yourself. Complete different color groups. Look at the shape of the pieces. Arrange your colored sections.