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Yuugi said, after Jounouchi stole a piece of the Puzzle but before Yuugi got to the point that that was the last piece left, that he'd never gotten this far on the Puzzle before. And then of course he solved it that same night. Strikes me as significant. How so, not sure...

Yuugi wasn't wearing a collar through most of that first episode of Season 0, or the corresponding manga chapter. Then he solves the Puzzle and poof, collar. Literally poof, in the anime; there simply isn't time for him to go anywhere between Yuugi putting the last piece in the Puzzle and Yami Yuugi confronting Ushio. (In the manga, there's plenty of time; Yuugi is at home when he finishes the Puzzle, not at the school like in the anime, and in both the confrontation with Ushio happens at the school.) Strikes me as significant. How so, not sure...