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I found an envelope in my mailbox today. It had some some weird looking symbol where the sender's address should have been, but I decided to open it anyway.

We've been watching you. Since you enjoy puzzles, we've taken the liberty of offering you one. If you check your Google Drive, you'll notice a new file we've added for you. Enjoy.

Questioning how they would be able to add a file to my drive, I open it up and sure enough, there is a new file. It's named halloween.zip and has some numbered folders and images that appear to be puzzle pieces.

Can you help figure out what the image they sent me is?

EDIT

For those that don't want to download the zip, the images are below. Each row is from a different folder named 1 through 15. There is also a 0 folder that contains a single txt file with the text

Nothing to see here... Move along, Move along.

Image of puzzle pieces:

Pieces

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    hmmm, tempting, but as a programmer I know better than just open a strange unknown zip file ^^; – stack reader Oct 28 '16 at 15:03
  • I opened it (AVG would tell me if its bad) and its fine – Beastly Gerbil Oct 28 '16 at 15:03
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    @BeastlyGerbil I fear you may have an excessive amount of trust in your AV package... Admittedly, it would be a strange vector for attack, but there have been stranger ones... – Matthew Oct 28 '16 at 15:08
  • @stackreader I was going to post the images, but 135 images is quite a bit. Plus I needed a way to split the pieces and also have the 0 folder. – David Starkey Oct 28 '16 at 15:19
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    Still, posting links to not well defined files is heavily frowned upon on this site. -1 for me. Also, the tag "mechanical puzzle" doesn't go very well with a .zip file. (Would jigsaw-puzzle not be better?) If you're just aiming at putting a lot of images in a puzzle, alternatives are better - and an overview image in the puzzle would defenitely be welcomed. I've vote -1 on this question for the moment for these reasons, not actually juding the actual puzzle. – BmyGuest Oct 28 '16 at 16:40
  • @DavidStarkey is the 0 folder actually important? – Beastly Gerbil Oct 28 '16 at 16:47
  • @BeastlyGerbil The folder naming is important and the 0 folder does have meaning. – David Starkey Oct 28 '16 at 17:02
  • @BeastlyGerbil I've added a compiled image of all the pieces so it is no longer required to download the zip file. – David Starkey Oct 28 '16 at 18:57
  • @DavidStarkey finished the final image, unsure about file 0 though – Beastly Gerbil Oct 28 '16 at 20:32

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If we put the pieces 1-15 (shown below) in a $4x4$ grid and slide using 'Nothing to see here' we get the The final image (sorry for putting it together badly) is:


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File 0 has a text document which says:

Nothing to see here... Move along, Move along.

The rest are typical jigsaw puzzles.

The pieces in the file called 1 fit together like this:


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Seems to be a pumpkin navel...

The pieces in the file called 2 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 3 fit together like this:


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Clearly part of a pumpkin.

The pieces in the file called 4 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 5 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 6 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 7 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 8 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 9 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 10 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 11 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 12 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 13 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 14 fit together like this:


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The pieces in the file called 15 fit together like this:


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And all of these put together give us a pumpkin shown at the top!

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