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Temple Garden Jigsaw Puzzle

A five-storey pagoda behind autumn maples and a wooden bridge over a pond. Red and orange maples round a dark pagoda, under a soft grey sky.

The pagoda's five dark roofs and the pale wooden bridge are the only straight lines. Place them first; the pond under the bridge mirrors the maples, so put each reflection below its tree.

Temple Garden at every size

PiecesParWhat it is like
50 piecesabout 7 minutesAbout 4 pieces in ten have a near-twin at this size. Almost every piece has something on it.
100 piecesabout 17 minutesAbout 6 pieces in ten have a near-twin at this size. Almost every piece has something on it.
200 piecesabout 41 minutesAbout 7 pieces in ten have a near-twin at this size. Almost every piece has something on it.
500 piecesabout 2 hoursAbout 9 pieces in ten have a near-twin at this size. Almost every piece has something on it.
1000 piecesabout 5½ hoursAbout 9 pieces in ten have a near-twin at this size. Almost every piece has something on it.

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 dark five-storey pagoda rises behind the trees right of centre, its spire against a grey sky, with the tiled roof of a temple hall below it. Japanese maples in red, orange and still-green leaves fill the left side and the top. A moss-covered stone lantern stands at the left edge and a smaller one by the gravel path, where visitors in dark coats walk beside a rope fence. On the right a plain wooden bridge crosses a pond, with one visitor on it taking a photo. The pond reflects the red leaves, and mossy boulders and ferns fill the bottom left.

Solving Temple Garden

Almost nothing here is plain: at 1000 pieces fewer than 1 piece in 10 is flat colour, because moss, leaves, gravel and water all carry texture. At 50 pieces about 4 pieces in 10 have a near-twin. The maples slow it down; their leaves cover the top half, and from 200 pieces up about 3 pieces in 4 have a near-twin. The pagoda, the lanterns and the bridge stay easy at every size.

Start with the pagoda from the spire down, one roof at a time, then the hall roof beneath it. Place the two stone lanterns. Build the bridge and its rail, then the path, the rope fence and the walkers. Fill the pond by matching its reflections to the maples above. The boulders and ferns come next, and the maple leaves are last, sorted into red, orange and green.

Temple Garden is the second easiest board in the castles and towns set up to 200 pieces, sharing that place with Ancient Ruins at 200. From 500 pieces up it sits level with Canal Houses and has the fewest plain pieces in the set: about 6 in 100 at 1000, where Canal Houses has 1 in 5.

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