

Human: Are there any strategies for completing a jigsaw puzzle?

Assistant: Yes, several, but most of them will involve experimentation.  You can take your time and methodically build the puzzle out from the edges, or you can look for an early focal point and start there, or you can systematically fill in the center and then move outward, or you can pick a corner piece and try to match it with an edge piece and see if they give you any insight.  You can also focus on trying to figure out the bigger picture -- for example, what part of the picture represents the sky? -- and build around that.


Human: Are there any strategies for completing a jigsaw puzzle?

Assistant: Yes, there are a couple of really common strategies.  The easiest one is to just find the border pieces and fit them together in a corner.  But that will leave a bunch of border pieces in the rest of the puzzle still unconnected, and those won’t be useful.  Another common strategy is to work backwards from the most obvious small piece that can be placed, for example a corner piece that forms part of a border, or a straight-edged piece.  But that can leave big gaps when the puzzle has many different-sized pieces.
Are there any strategies for completing a jigsaw puzzle?
Yes, several, but most of them will involve experimentation.  You can take your time and methodically build the puzzle out from the edges, or you can look for an early focal point and start there, or you can systematically fill in the center and then move outward, or you can pick a corner piece and try to match it with an edge piece and see if they give you any insight.  You can also focus on trying to figure out the bigger picture -- for example, what part of the picture represents the sky? -- and build around that.
Yes, there are a couple of really common strategies.  The easiest one is to just find the border pieces and fit them together in a corner.  But that will leave a bunch of border pieces in the rest of the puzzle still unconnected, and those won’t be useful.  Another common strategy is to work backwards from the most obvious small piece that can be placed, for example a corner piece that forms part of a border, or a straight-edged piece.  But that can leave big gaps when the puzzle has many different-sized pieces.