Jigsaw Puzzle

🕹️ How to play

1. Start a puzzle: A 9-piece puzzle is waiting when the page opens — no start button. A faint guide image shows the whole picture inside the board, and the shuffled pieces sit in the tray below. Press a piece and drag it to where it belongs.
2. Snap and join pieces: Release a piece close to its correct spot (about a quarter of a square, at least 16 pixels) and it clicks into place while the “placed” counter goes up. If it isn't lined up, it simply stays on the board; when it meets a correct neighbour the two join into a group that moves and snaps as one.
3. Finish and pick the next one: When the last piece clicks in, the seams fade, a sweep of light crosses the picture and the results card shows your time, best time and whether it was a first solve or a new record. Tap Next picture, try the next size up, or play the same picture again with a new cut.

📖 Rules & variants

How the board works: every picture is square and is cut into 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 6×6 or 7×7 squares — 9, 16, 25, 36 or 49 pieces. Each piece is a square with a knob or a socket on every inner side and flat sides along the border; two neighbours always share one knob and one socket. Knob directions and tray order are reshuffled every game, so replaying a picture gives a fresh cut.

When a piece snaps: on release the piece is first kept inside the board (dropped up to half a square past the edge it is nudged back in; farther out, or over the tray, it returns to the tray). If its centre is within 0.28 of a square of its home (at least 16 pixels on small squares) it locks in place. Otherwise, if a correct neighbour lying loose on the board is within the same distance, the two join into a group. Anything else stays on the board as a loose piece — nothing can fall off the edge, and placed pieces can't be moved again.

Tray, Edges and Gather: unplaced pieces live in the tray at the bottom. In portrait, swipe sideways to browse and drag a piece upward to pick it up, or press and hold for a quarter second. Edges shows only items with border pieces and counts them. Gather pulls every loose piece and group back to the front of the tray, top to bottom, without breaking groups — so the last piece is never lost.

Rotation mode: switch it on when starting a puzzle and every piece begins turned 0°, 90°, 180° or 270°. Tap a piece to rotate it 90° clockwise — joined groups turn as one around the piece you tapped. Only upright pieces snap into the board. Rotation is chosen per puzzle and can't be toggled mid-game.

Timer and records: the clock starts with your first pick-up and pauses while the tab is hidden, the picture or settings panel is open, and after a reload until you pick up a piece again. Each picture × size × rotation keeps its own best time; the guide image, peeking and the edge filter never affect records. Every picture auto-saves its own progress, up to all 8 at once.

Solving tips: tap Edges and build the corners and border first, then sort the rest by colour or object (sky, roofs, animals) into small groups on the board and push whole groups into place. In rotation mode turn groups upright before placing them. For a challenge, turn off the guide image in Settings and rely on holding the eye button to peek.

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