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skills. The puzzle pieces, or tans, all are cut from a square.
Then the tans are arranged in shapes by puzzle masters. A
silhouette is drawn and given to a puzzler to solve. The puz-
zler rearranges the seven tans to match the arrangements.
You can learn ancient puzzle techniques. Using a blank
piece of paper, trace Figure 7-9. Cut out all seven tans. Spend
some time noticing the seven pieces. Some are alike, some are
very different. For your first puzzle, put the seven tans back
into a square. Don’t peek at the diagram on this page!
After you master the square puzzle, you can move on to a
set of puzzles. This is a puzzle made to match the characters
in a famous old nursery rhyme, The House That Jack Built.

This is the House that Jack built.

This is the Malt
that lay in the House that Jack built.