In the frame
A giant clam fills most of the frame, its wavy shell open to show an electric-blue mantle dotted with dark spots. Branching and lumpy corals in beige, pink and lilac surround it.
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 wavy, dark-rimmed edges of the shell.
- Almost every part of this frame has detail. The least distinct part is the deep blue middle of the mantle, 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 (37%), charcoal (25%), brown (17%) and sand (12%).
- grey37%
- charcoal25%
- brown17%
- sand12%
- slate grey9%
How deep it goes
Depth 2 of 5 — an easy dive.
Wall dives drop off into bigger boards, where the plain parts of a picture start to slow you down.