"Nightdive"
1000 pieces
My 54th puzzle
March 1993
| This is probably my favorite (it's so hard for me to
choose :-) because of what I did with the top and bottom
edges. The original poster had a straight edge with flat
black at the top and bottom where there were no fish. The
wavy edge I designed for this puzzle is extremely
difficult to assemble, because as each curved edge piece
ends, the assembler has no idea if the neighboring piece
continues the same curve or bends back in the other
direction (see the middle wave in the close-up below).
The wavy edge adds a sense of watery movement to the
scene. The black portions inevitably become the last to be assembled, but are also the most difficult sections of the puzzle by far. So you finish all the wonderfully-colored fish and are left with a devilishly-tricky black wavy edge to assemble. It's like hitting a brick wall. Closeup of the upper-right corner:
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