puzzle

From: Gerfried Fuchs

Krogg  wrote:
> I gots a puzzle for ya.The pieces are made like this:
> two pieces that fit togather like so:
>  ,-------.----.
>  |     __/    |
>  |    (_      |
>  |    _/    ...

From: mic

Krogg wrote:

>HEH...got ya'll stumped.....
>
>Here's a tiny piece as a hint.
>  _/\___  
>_// / ) \ 
>\/\/ /\_/\
>   \/\_/\/

thanks... needed that.

                 ,--,--.
             ...

After applying my trusted old knife to some of the pieces...

   ...and breaking the rules for a couple of them...

       ...I finally came to this result:

 v--+     |-_            /\____/\          /\    v-----------.
 /  |     |  \           \      /     +---' (     \        _-|
/   |     |   \          /      \     |     /      \      /
\    )    |   ...

There are missing entries in the above chart. This
means that piece containing charactes with missing
entries cannot be flipped in certain direction.
Pieces containg characters not in above chart
cann...

 . | .     ( | )    \ | /    _ | _    - | -    ` | '
---+---   ---+---  ---+---  ---+---  ---+---  ---+---
   |       ( | )    / | \      |        |      , |

 | | |     + | +    v | v
---+---   ---+-...

Hmmm, to make things a little bit more interesting, let
us allow flipping pieces horizontally and vertically.

Here is how characters behave when flipped:

                             ,------------,.
            ,----,------.    |     ______/ |
      _/\_ /    /       |    |\    \__     |
     /     )   /\      (|    | )(\   /     |
    /\____(____) \  ...

Good one, Krogg!

          /       ha
          \,^^%--- ha
           <\  \ ha   
           >/          And this one took a little longer
           >           to solve... very interesting shape
 ...