How to play

Pick a puzzle

Open a puzzle from the full library. Public puzzles can be played without an account.

Want one chosen for you? The daily puzzle gives everyone the same pick each day. Each puzzle comes in several piece counts, so small counts suit a short break while larger ones give you more sorting, more edge work and a slower solve.

You can also turn your own photo into a puzzle on the create page and play it privately. Sharing it with other players needs review before it appears on the site.

Choose the piece count

Puzzles can be played at 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 36, 50, 80, 104, 150, 252, 300, 600 and 1000 pieces. Phones show counts up to 252 by default.

Small counts are best for quick sessions. The 1000-piece board is a long solve and feels better on a larger screen.

New to jigsaw puzzles? Try 24 or 50 pieces. That is enough to feel like a real puzzle without turning the first game into homework.

Move and connect pieces

Drag a piece near the right neighbor and let go. With a mouse, you can also click once to pick it up and click again to place it. On touch screens, tap a piece and then tap where it goes. To drag with a finger instead, turn off Touch pick then place under Tools, Game settings. Escape cancels a move. If a piece is close enough to its neighbor, it snaps into place. Connected pieces move together as one group.

With Frame off, connected groups stay movable wherever you build them. You can shift a nearly finished puzzle to make more room without losing the joins. Progress counts the pieces inside every correct group, not only the largest group on the table.

Use the table tools

Press Preview to check the finished picture, turn on Ghost image in the Tools menu for a faint guide or press Edges to make the border pieces glow so you can build the frame first.

Press Frame to show the picture area on the table. With Frame on, each piece locks in place once it reaches its spot in the picture. With it off, pieces and groups can join anywhere on the table. Rooms always play with the frame on.

Two more tools help in solo games. Select a piece and press Hint to see where it goes for a moment, and use Undo last move in the Tools menu (or Ctrl+Z, Cmd+Z on a Mac) to put your last move back.

Zoom in with the toolbar buttons, the mouse wheel or a two-finger pinch, then drag the table to pan when you are zoomed in. Arrange lays every loose piece out where you can see it, and Group by picture area and Scatter pieces in the Tools menu sort or mix them again. None of these change the puzzle itself.

Prefer the keyboard? Focus a piece, nudge it with the arrow keys and drop it with Enter.

Save progress and preferences

When Save progress is on in Game preferences, you can continue an unfinished solo puzzle in the same browser. Clearing site storage can remove local progress.

Table colors, sound and other game preferences are saved on this device. Account & security shows your sign-in methods and signed-in devices.

Finish the puzzle

When the last piece is placed, the timer stops and the finish panel opens. Guests see their result on the device they used.

Public leaderboard scores need an account. If you finish as a guest, we keep that score briefly so you can sign in and save it without losing the run.