Completing Puzzles

These days, in the intense heat of a long, long summer, I spend a lot of time, perhaps even too much, working puzzles. Some of them are word puzzles, like Wordle online, but many are jigsaw puzzles of all types and descriptions: artworks made into thousand-piece mysteries, like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (which is spread out on my dining table as I write this, with just the edge completed so far);…