A thousand figures, one set.

In 1903 the American puzzle maker Sam Loyd announced seven ancient Books of Tan, a thousand figures each, and quoted a proverb he said was Chinese, about the fool who would write the eighth. There were no books and no proverb. He wrote the eighth himself.

This is the ninth. A thousand figures, every one made of the same seven pieces, drawn by a contract on Ethereum.

Make it or buy it.

1. Make a figure with all seven pieces, no overlaps, and keep a copy. A kept copy is yours for good and never moves.
2. Buy the original. There is one of each figure, a thousand in all. It arrives as a shadow; make it yourself to see its pieces.
3. Made a figure first? Take its original at the same price as anyone, while it is still in the book.
4. Every resale of an original pays 5 % to the fool who wrote the book.
5. The contract draws every figure. Its owner only sets up the collection on OpenSea, then renounces.