Patent ID: 8628087

Claim:
A personalized mosaic puzzle source tile set for user assembly in their entirety into a copy of most user provided target pictures, comprising: a predetermined, limited number of puzzle source tiles of identical size and shape; each source tile having a front, image forming face bounded by respective edge portions and being rotationally symmetrical, enabling assembly in at least two different rotational positions with image forming faces in edge-to-edge abutment; the image forming faces having respectively different patternings extending thereacross providing, collectively, a brightness range for the set and, individually, respectively different brightness characteristics distributed over the brightness range; the brightness characteristics comprising a level of average brightness and, at respective predetermined designated edges of each individual face, a level of maximum brightness and a level of minimum brightness, respectively; indicia marked on at least one of a respective front face and a respective rear face of all respective source tiles, said indicia providing respectively different tile identification codes providing directional characteristics corresponding to the respective rotational positions, whereby a user can assemble the source tiles together in correct rotational positions to form a copy of the target picture by following directions provided by corresponding, correctly positioned indicia on a source tile arrangement chart.