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A baroque square with a clock tower, cafe umbrellas and market stalls. Pastel facades, striped awnings and a crowd. Lots of colour, lots of small pieces.
Facade pieces have windows in rows; use the window rhythm to align them. Umbrellas and awnings are the only stripes.
About 9 pieces in ten have a near-twin at this size. Most pieces carry some texture.
Par is the time your score is measured against at that size. The rest is measured from the picture itself: how many pieces have a near-twin by colour once it is cut.
What the picture shows
A cobbled town square on a summer evening. Pastel houses with shutters and iron balconies line the left side in yellow, pink, mint and cream. A stone clock tower with an open belfry rises on the right, and a baroque fountain with statues stands in the middle. Cafe tables under cream and terracotta umbrellas crowd the left, full of people. On the right, market stalls under blue-and-white and red-and-white striped awnings sell fruit and flowers. Pigeons gather on the cobbles in front of the fountain.
Solving Old Town Square
At 50 and 100 pieces each facade colour is its own group, and the awnings and the clock face are unmistakable. At 500 and 1000 pieces the facades blur into rows of identical shuttered windows, and the cobbles across the bottom third become one grey pattern. The crowd keeps detail at any size but is hard to place, because the people at the cafe tables all look alike.
Place the clock tower first, from the clock face up. Then the fountain and its statues. Sort the facades by colour and line them up by their rows of windows, top floors first. Next the striped awnings and the market stalls, then the umbrellas and the cafe crowd. Lay the cobbles last, following the fan-shaped curves of the stones.
Old Town Square is the easiest board in the castles and towns set at every size, with about 5 pieces in 10 that have a near-twin at 100 pieces. Temple Garden is next up to 200 pieces, level with Ancient Ruins at 200. Even at 1000 pieces the square stays clear of Hilltop Castle, about 9 in 10 against almost every piece.
