Secret Post

You have probably found this post because you want to know how I finished the puzzle and what it looked like. Well, it was actually very simple and really very surprising. After only a few days of trying and one unsuccessful method I struck upon one piece which turned about to be the key.

My two outward spades. After finding out that putting this piece in the middle wasn't going to work, I decided to begin my attempt with it, as the corner piece, and build from there:

So, I picked another piece up, and another and another expecting very little. I found I had a row of three, and then a set of six, but still I wasn't at all convinced I had made it. In fact, I had noticed I had already two outward pointing diamonds, when really I was only supposed to have one....did I have enough diamonds to have another, inward pointing diamond, on the outside to make up the maths? I just didn't know if I would...

Here's what was left....

enough diamonds? Maybe...

I worked with these three once or twice, I didn't at all get it straight away, in fact. I had one piece left and I was struggling with it; it had the right components, i flipped it once, but thought how much I didn't want to cheat, and flipped it back, then I just....tried it....

And here it is complete.....ta da!

Excuse the terrible photographs, I actually completed this at midnight so, no lovely sunlight like in all the other attempts....perhaps that was the key all along, late-night-thinking....

Not so tough now, are ya One Tough Puzzle?