Puzzle

1590s, pusle  "bewilder,confound," possibly frequentative of pose (v.)  in obsolete sense of"perplex" (cf. nuzzle  from nose ). The noun meaning "stateof being puzzled" is recorded from c.1600, from the verb; meaning"perplexing question" is from 1650s; that of "a toy contrived totest one's ingenuity" is from 1814. ~Dictionary.com

Notwithstanding the assumed originaldefinition of the word Puzzle, the specific game completed at the ECo-C socialis worth the detour; it was a puzzle… but not only that, not quite.

Was it a game? Certainly. And although themain exercise was pretty straightforward_ fit together the 70 pieces of apuzzle_ the other assorted rules where anything but.

Each attending person was awarded a puzzlepiece worth 28 euros. That is a lot of money for one tiny scrap of Plexiglas;it is more than some collectibles, such as the “fèves” of the Parisian galettedes rois (king’s pie), and about as much as some classical items, such asstamps, coins, or perfume bottles.

Each individual was then offered theopportunity to take his or her puzzle piece, and try to fit it into the biggerboard of pieces to reconstitute the overall puzzle; in gathering together all70 pieces, the attendees thus essentially came together, each positioning hisown contribution in a bigger framework, that would eventually lead to 1960 EURdonated to the Ugandan charity mentioned on the 10/12 news article. A premiumof 40 EUR –to round up the amount- was thrown in on completion of the puzzle,and the entire sum will officialy be donated at a later time.