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How can I reconstruct the photo?
1 of 8: Right-click on the pieces in inventory to bring up the puzzle screen where you're supposed to fit the pieces together again like a jigsaw puzzle. There are quite a few pieces, so this may seem a very daunting puzzle at first, but it's not really.
2 of 8: Start off by moving all of the pieces out of the rectangular region in the center that the finished photo needs to go in. (Left-click on a piece to pick it up, and again to drop it. Right-clicking on pieces cycles them through their four possible rotations.)
3 of 8: NOTE: If you do some work on the puzzle and then decide to quit for awhile, the pieces will be as you left them when you come back to it later on. That means you don't have to do it all at once.
4 of 8: While you're at it, why not put all pieces with borders on them on one side, and all the rest on the other side?
5 of 8: Now start trying to reconstruct the photo. The game will help you out by putting a piece in its exact correct place if you click it very close to that place (and if it's rotated correctly).
6 of 8: Many people like to do the entire border of a jigsaw puzzle before starting in on the middle, and you can follow that strategy here. (Play with the corner pieces first to see how the game's helpful placement thing mentioned in the previous hint works.)
7 of 8: Or you might find it easier to reconstruct the face first. You could locate the two pieces that each have an eye on them, rotate them correctly, and then click them around near the center of the rectangular region to see where they need to go. Then you could continue reconstructing the face from there.
8 of 8: Here's a wallet-sized version of the completed photo with red lines drawn in between pieces to help make their boundaries stand out more.
