- Begin by examining the image below whose reconstruction will be the objective of the puzzle.
- Press the Scramble button in order to mix up the tiles randomly.
- Re-assemble the tiles in their correct order by relocating the tiles in pairs. This is done by first single-clicking on a tile. Then, after single-clicking on any second tile, the two tiles will swap their positions. If you need some help, you can click on the Show/Hide Hint button to display the original image. Moreover, the Show/Hide Errors button will indicate the misplaced tiles.
- When all the tiles are back in their original locations, you will be notified.
- Finally, if you press the I Give Up! button, the misplaced tiles will be relocated to their correct position.
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News Stand, Granville Street Bridge, New Westminster
Taken in 1921, this shows the interior of the news stand runby the B.C. Electric Railway Company at the Granville Street
Bridge, in New Westminster, Marpole, Vancouver.
The scene was captured by Stuart Thomson, an English-born
Vancouver-based photographer. It well repays careful study.
The cart in the foreground has a display of Popular Mechanics,
the September 1921 issue. It cost 25 cents and the cover features a
futuristic vision of personal marine transport, a submerging pleasure
boat! Harper's and Maclean's magazines were also on sale
and, while waiting for a seat at the lunch counter, patrons could
weigh themselves for one cent.
The image is from the City of Vancouver Archives,
which also hosts an image of the exterior of the news stand.
Acknowledgement: Thanks to Yves Beaudoin (Webpraxis Consulting Ltd.)
for coming up with the idea and developing the Perl scripts for this puzzle.
Alwynne B. Beaudoin (bluebulrush@gmail.com)
Latest update: December 22 2012