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English cartographer John Spilsbury developed the earliest-known example of a jigsaw puzzle around 1760 when he dissected countries by their borders and glued the pieces onto a piece of wood. At the time, Spilsbury did not intend for his “invention” to become one of the world’s most popular pastimes. Puzzles have confounded millions of people in the centuries since Spilsbury’s era, but some of the most difficult puzzles to solve have not come from the jigsaw variety. Among football fans, for example, piecing together the reasons behind the delayed start of Tom Brady’s career feels like putting together a jigsaw puzzle of a clear night sky.