He then told us that he had a box of jigsaw puzzles backstage, for anyone who became dangerously bored.
This leaves us with a box of mismatched puzzles pieces, some of which have an obvious place, some of which have a future use, and some of which need to be discarded altogether — a set of decisions we can only make well if we have a clear sense of the picture we're trying to create, of who we really are underneath.
He placed cats in a variety of puzzle boxes, and observed the strategies the cats used to escape.
Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani described it as a "wonderfully tricky Chinese puzzle box of a novel".
With "The Tragedy of Arthur Mr. Phillipss has created a wonderfully tricky Chinese puzzle box of a novel that is as entertaining as it is brainy.
It has a Chinese puzzle box of a plot: a woman seeks her soldier fiancé who has been missing during World War I.
But, as is the way of this teasing puzzle box of a series, it has taken us half a dozen episodes to finally piece together exactly how things fell apart.
Over time, details accrete, through flashbacks and flashforwards, until we're faced with a dazzling puzzle box of a narrative, as much like a video game as a story.
To recount more of the plot is neither fair to Mr. Schwab, who has built a puzzle box of the first order, nor the audience, which is expected to take it apart and reassemble it.
Toward the end of 2012, they sent a series of bespoke letters to four British music magazines: NME, Uncut, Mojo and Kerrang, which together formed a puzzle box of clues as to the new album.
