In the frame
A large conch shell with a glossy pink lip lies on rippled sand next to two orange sea stars and three round sand dollars. A net of sunlight shimmers over the bottom.
This dive cuts the picture into 70 pieces on a 10 × 7 grid: 30 border pieces and 40 inner pieces. The cut is fixed, so every player gets exactly the same pieces.
Dive plan
- Start with the easy part: the conch shell and the two orange sea stars.
- Almost every part of this frame has detail. The least distinct part is the sunlit sand at the top, and even that has texture to go on.
- Switch on Edges to keep only the 30 border pieces on the table, and build the frame first.
- Press Sort to tidy the loose pieces into rows around the board, border pieces nearest — handy once the frame is done.
- With this much detail you can build small islands around single features and join them to the frame later.
- Group the loose pieces by colour before you start joining them; it saves a lot of searching.
Colours of the picture
Main colours, measured from the picture's pixels: grey (40%), teal (16%), brown (12%) and cream (11%).
- grey40%
- teal16%
- brown12%
- cream11%
- sand11%
- lagoon green9%
How deep it goes
Depth 3 of 5 — a steady dive.
Wall dives drop off into bigger boards, where the plain parts of a picture start to slow you down.