Patterned and abstract images behave unlike any photograph. Repetition is the enemy of the easy jigsaw: a tiled design can produce pieces that are genuinely interchangeable by eye, so you fall back on shape and on the logic of the pattern itself. Puzzlers either love this category or avoid it entirely, and both reactions are reasonable.
Patterns break the normal rules, because repetition means two pieces can be genuinely identical to the eye. Colour sorting stops helping sooner than you expect, so switch to shape earlier than you would on a photograph: look at the gap, count the tabs it needs, and find that. People tend to either love this category or avoid it, and both reactions are reasonable.
Difficulty: Graded easy or medium, because the measure sees plenty of detail — but repeating motifs make these harder to solve than the badge suggests. Every picture here is graded automatically by how much its neighbouring pixels differ, rather than by subject — why that is the thing that matters.
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