Pyramid Solitaire Saga Background locations/inspiration

Thin_icE

I recently noticed that some of the backgrounds of Pyramid Solitaire Saga are inpired on real locations. This made me curious to see what every background is supposed to be. As a list of the backgrounds/locations is not available yet, let's start one, I'll add what I've came up with so far, and will take on your help to complete the list 😁

As far as I could understand, there are 104 unique backgrounds, after which it starts repeating from the episode 47 background.

As I'm a new member, the forum doesn't let me add links to the descriptions, I'll add them as soon as I'm allowed.

Here's a compilation of all backgrounds, below I'll add the locations I already figured out, please have a look and contribute:

Episode 13: Seems inspired on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon

Episode 22: Great Wall, China

Episode 25: Seems inspired by the Terracotta Army, Shaanxi, China

Episode 30: Looks like an homage to the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Bangkok, Thailand

Episode 36: Powell-Hyde cable car, San Francisco, USA

Episode 38: Clearly mentions "Miami Beach", although I can't recall where a similar location can be found there

Episode 39: I can't quite put my finger on the exact boat, but this is definitely a nudge to the Mississippi steamboats, USA

Episode 44: Also can't tell exactly where, but a homage to the Parisian carousels, Paris, France

Episode 45: Not properly a copy, but inspired by Gare du Nord, Paris, France

Episode 46: You can see the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute church and the Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy

Episode 47: Not an exact copy, but heavily influenced by El Drac, in Park Güell, Barcelona, Spain

Episode 57: Seems a tribute to the Moai, Easter Island, Chile

Episode 58: A spin on the previous one

Episode 59: Although the colors are swapped, looks like the Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Episode 61: Homage to the wild west, USA

Episode 62: Trafalgar Square, London, England

Episode 67: Oia, Santorini, Greece

Episode 68: Crystal Palace, London, England

Episode 69: Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, Italy

Episode 71: Golden Gate bridge quite visible, San Francisco, USA

Episode 73: Clearly Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England

Episode 82: Covent Garden Station, London, England

Episode 95: Belém Tower, Lisbon, Portugal

Episode 96: Pena Palace, Sintra, Portugal

Diamond_Lim

Wow! Amazing! I will tagging @teresawallace44 the Pyramid Solitaire Expert Player check it out! 😄

Thin_icE

Thank you for shout out, in fact, @teresawallace44 was the person that suggested me to post this here in the first place, so I'm sure she is definitely aware :)

teresawallace44

Hi @Thin_icE

This great but I can’t really see the pictures. Is there anyway you could make some of the pictures bigger? The ones you haven’t figured out where they are would be the ones to make bigger. 👍

I can ask a few other players that been here a while but you need to be able to see what you have figured out and the ones you haven’t so others can see it better. 🤗

Great work so far. 👍

Teresa 🦋🌺🦋

Thanks for tagging me @Diamond Lim 💕

_Elsa_

What a great idea @Thin_icE! @teresawallace44 I need some of those backgrounds to create missing thing images so give me a bit and I will find the link for you and post it here.

Thin_icE

Thank you for your suggestions, @teresawallace44, for some reason I can't edit the post at the moment, but I'll try to work out the best way to have all the images in a decent size.

_Elsa_

@teresawallace44 here is one link for you.

Thin_icE

https://community.king.com/en/blog/discussion/comment/1434257#Comment_1434257

Thank you for your help, @Elsa! In fact I had already happened to come across Tom Huang's ArtStation webpage, where he has posted some backgrounds he has done for Pyramid Solitaire Saga. I even emailed him to try to find out if he was the only person responsible for the background art, but had no reply so far.

_Elsa_

If you hear anything from him @Thin_icE please share with us. I am going to save a bunch of backgrounds in a folder now so if ever you want any please just contact me.

Thin_icE

Thank you for your help, @Elsa! :) In fact, I managed to get all of the backgrounds from the app, I just didn't want to post them in full resolution, as it would make this topic gigantic :D

But in fact, @Elsa, I think there is something you can help me with: I can't seem to edit the post anymore, it just says it will appear after it has been approved, and I can't figure out why...

_Elsa_

I know why you got that message! The editor doesn't like some words so when you see that pop up it means you used a word that it doesn't like. It's happened to me before many times when I was posting my stories and I'd have to get a CM to approve it. Now if I get that message I just go back and read what I wrote and figure out what word to take out. Even something like a$$ might throw it into an approval mode. If you want it to be approved just send a PM to a CM and they will approve it for you.