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About this place ↓About Castle Square and the Old Town, Warsaw
Castle Square stands at the entrance to Warsaw's Old Town, with the Royal Castle on one side and Sigismund's Column, raised in 1644, in the middle. King Sigismund III Vasa moved the royal court here from Kraków around 1600, and Warsaw has been the capital ever since. In 1944, after the Warsaw Uprising, German troops blew up most of the old town. After the war it was rebuilt, house by house, with the help of old drawings, photographs and the eighteenth-century paintings of Bernardo Bellotto. In 1980 it became a World Heritage Site as an example of an almost complete reconstruction.
Puzzle tip: start with the column and the castle with its tower; the colourful houses come next, and the pale square goes last.
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Moving pieces: Drag a piece with your mouse or finger. With a mouse you can also click a piece once to pick it up — it follows the pointer until you click again to set it down.
Joining pieces: Drop a piece near its matching neighbour and it snaps into place with a click. Joined pieces move together as one group. There’s no fixed spot to build in — assemble anywhere on the table.
Play As: Pick how many pieces to cut the picture into, from 12 up to 300. Switch on Hard shape at the bottom of the menu for trickier pieces with three knobs on every side. Changing either setting starts the puzzle over.
Table: At the very bottom of Play As, choose what you build on: leather, light oak, green felt or charcoal. Your choice is remembered for every puzzle and doesn’t restart the one you’re on. Light oak table photo by simon on Unsplash.
Pause: Click the timer, or the pause button next to it. The table is covered while paused so nobody can sneak a look; click it (or the timer) to carry on.
Show picture: The picture button shows the finished image as a guide. Click it again to hide it.
Arrange pieces: Lines up all loose pieces in tidy rows at the sides of the table, handy for spotting edges or a missing piece. Click again to scatter them. Pieces you’ve already joined stay exactly where you left them.
Restart: Mixes up the pieces and starts again with the same settings.
Fullscreen: The last button on the bar gives the puzzle the whole screen. Press it again or Esc to leave.
Progress: In the middle of the bar, the counter shows how many pieces are joined, and the percentage shows how much of the picture is done.
Finishing: When the last piece clicks in, the timer stops at your finishing time, and you can play again or try another puzzle at the same size and shape.
Puzzle: Jigsaw Earth — free online jigsaw puzzles of places around the world.
