In the frame
Hundreds of silver trevally swim in a tight spiral that narrows towards the bottom like a funnel. A dark reef wall rises on the left, and the rest of the frame is deep blue.
This dive cuts the picture into 77 pieces on a 11 × 7 grid: 32 border pieces and 45 inner pieces. The cut is fixed, so every player gets exactly the same pieces.
Dive plan
- Start with the easy part: the silver school and its curved outline.
- Save for last: the deep blue water around the school. About 40% of the frame has little detail, mostly on the right side, and those pieces look alike.
- Switch on Edges to keep only the 32 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.
- In the plain areas, match pieces by shape: on a 11 × 7 grid every inner piece has a tab or a blank on each of its four sides.
- A long dive: take breaks whenever you like — the board is saved after every move.
Colours of the picture
Main colours, measured from the picture's pixels: ocean blue (40%), deep blue (37%) and sky blue (24%).
- ocean blue40%
- deep blue37%
- sky blue24%
How deep it goes
Depth 5 of 5 — a long, deep dive.
Deep dives are the longest in the logbook: the largest board each game gets in the numbered dives.