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Look, I'll be honest with you—I used to think jigsaw puzzles were what people did in nursing homes while waiting for death. My mother would sit there with her 1500-piece covered bridge, muttering things like "Now where does this godforsaken water go?" while I'd sneak chocolates from her side table. But here we are, twenty years later, and I'm the one hunched over a card table at 2 AM, squinting at what might be either a cloud or a sheep's behind.
These particular puzzles aren't your grandmother's kittens-in-a-basket situation. No, these have what the kids call "cool graphics"—which I learned means pictures that don't make you want to gouge your eyes out with the corner piece you've been trying to place for three hours. My partner Hugh says they're "artistically relevant," but Hugh also thinks cargo shorts are making a comeback,
