Cut something, usually a flat piece of cardboard with a picture on it, into a bunch of pieces. You have a jigsaw puzzle. You usually purchase a package with these pieces in it, and try to assemble the original image. Recently has been expanded to include 3-D puzzles.

Can purchase ones for children, with 25 pieces or less, to the common ones with 500-2000 pieces. They also have giant ones with as many as 10,000 pieces.