Building on the puzzle theme used to launch Chrome Extensions, the Chrome Product Marketing team decided to create a puzzle for Add-on-Con. I am very happy to report the puzzle is now complete and my family had fun finding the little black and white pieces.

During the construction phase of the puzzle a few things stood out.

1. A puzzle language was created to describe the different shapes:
   1. This one was called dog ear
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   2. These were flaties
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2. People working on the puzzle went through a similar emotional experience:
   1. This puzzle looks hard
   2. This piece will be easy
   3. It has to be here
   4. I am going to find it
      • (two hours later)
   5. The piece must be lost
      • (two hours later)
   6. This piece is not here
      • (I am done for the night)
3. We kept organizing the puzzle pieces into small groups.
   1. This allowed us to feel like we were accomplishing something

In the end working on the puzzle reminded me of a software project and like all software projects our puzzle had a few bugs:

1. we had 5 corners,
2. 2 extra pieces
3. 1 missing piece from the center of the puzzle

Thanks Google we really did  have fun puzzling and if you have an extra Nexus One Phone please send it over so we can decode the message.  Twitter Handle @menro.