Small, and in no hurry about it.
LAKE (W.A.) PTY LTD is registered in Western Australia and run from Caves Road at Wilyabrup, between Margaret River and the coast. It is a small operation, and this page carries the parts of it that are any use to a stranger: who the company is, where it sits, how to reach a person, and what it currently has its name on.
Anything else is better said in a conversation than guessed at from a web page, so the address below is a real one and goes to a person rather than a form.
3948 Caves Rd, Wilyabrup WA 6280, Australia.
Nolan Combs, director.
One application on Google Play, listed further down with its privacy policy.
A thousand-piece jigsaw has at most sixteen interior shapes. Around sixty pieces share each one.
Every cut between two pieces is one decision — a tab on this side, a socket on that. So a piece away from the border is described entirely by four such decisions, which gives sixteen possible shapes and no more. However many pieces a puzzle has, the shapes repeat; what makes a piece unique is the picture printed on it, not the outline. That is why holding one up to a gap works far less often than it feels like it should.
A 25 × 40 board is 1 000 pieces: 126 sit on the border and 874 have four cut edges. Those 874 are distributed over just 16 outlines, so on average 54.6 pieces are the same shape as any one you pick up. Meanwhile the board itself could have been cut in about 10⁵⁸² different ways.
One cut of the chosen board, drawn with the tabs it happens to have. The sixteen shapes are tab or socket on each of four sides; the border pieces have a flat edge instead and so come in fewer varieties still.
This is counting, not a claim about any particular product: four edges, two states each. The figures were checked against a direct construction of the board rather than taken on trust, and they say nothing about how a puzzle feels to sit down with.
On Google Play: Relicart
One listing. Relicart cuts an original artwork into jigsaw pieces and lets you put it back together, at whatever piece count suits the evening. It works offline, keeps no account and carries no advertising.
Google Play · com.piecework.relicart · privacy policy →
Contact
Director: Nolan Combs
3948 Caves Rd, Wilyabrup WA 6280, Australia
Mail: [email protected]
About the app: [email protected]