In fact, I have the hardest time getting him to pay attention even to the picture. He seems to look only at the shape of the pieces and then find the ones that fit together. To be honest, I have no idea how he manages to do this.
BB
This excited me, BBDad, because my late dad is the only other person I've known who did this! He'd do puzzles of several thousand pieces and never, ever look at the picture--he sorted all the pieces by shape first, and then off to the races...which drove my mum goofy, as she is a colour-first puzzler--but between the two of them, they did lots of puzzles together every year. (One year, I found one that was all white--he loved it!)
We always started a great big one together on Boxing Day...sorry, irrelevant trip down memory lane here...but I still get a little misty when something reminds me of my much-missed Pop.
Cherish your little shape-sorter!
peace
minnie
