Playing and crafting

We can use TikZ for displaying or documenting games. Here are some example packages:

• The logicpuzzle package can print puzzles such as Sudoku and Minesweeper
• The JeuxCartes package can display playing cards, such as for Poker, Tarot, and Uno
• The rubikcube package provides commands and macros for typesetting Rubik’s cube configurations, rotation sequences, and move notation
• The havannah package prints diagrams of the board games Havannah and Hex

The internals of TikZ are often hidden within the package source code. Sometimes they are not really visible to the user because the packages provide their own syntax. Since we are learning TikZ, we pick two games where we use commands within TikZ; we will choose jigsaw puzzles and building with bricks, as you know from Lego.

Creating jigsaw puzzles

We all know jigsaw puzzles: a set of flat shapes are assembled until they form a picture such as a photo or drawing. The jigsaw package...