> In my experience, puzzles are rarely/never simply exact columns and rows
In my experience, they exactly are.
Of course, there are plenty of "unconventional" ones too, but the majority has rigid row/column layout.
In my experience, they exactly are.
Of course, there are plenty of "unconventional" ones too, but the majority has rigid row/column layout.
This is just a random puzzle and not something I hand picked to make a point. As you can see the pieces are no where near a rigid row/column layout. In my experience this is the norm.
But we have hundreds of puzzles from tons of manufacturers. Other than the puzzles for little kids, all of our puzzles are non-grids.
Some items get re-upped, and the timestamps get "rolled back" in interesting ways. Eventually it all comes out in the wash, but it can lead to local (space and time) apparent inconsistencies like this.
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