🧩 Jigsaw Puzzle

How to play

A picture is cut into a 4x4 grid of sixteen pieces and the pieces are scattered across the tray. Drag each one back to where it belongs. A piece that lands within twenty pixels of its home snaps into place and stays there; the puzzle is finished when all sixteen have settled.

• Press and drag a piece — picks it up and moves it. Pieces already placed are locked and cannot be picked up again.
• Release — drops the piece. If it is close enough to its slot it snaps home, otherwise it stays where you left it.
• New Puzzle — deals a fresh picture and re-scatters every piece.

Scoring

There is no points score. The counters are Placed, which runs from 0 to 16, and Moves, which increments every time you release a piece whether or not it landed correctly. Sixteen moves is therefore a perfect round, and the move count is the only measure of how cleanly you solved it.

Tips

• The snap tolerance is twenty pixels, so a piece does not need to be exact — get it close and let it settle rather than nudging repeatedly, since every release costs a move.
• Each piece is tinted by its row, with lower rows darker. Sorting the loose pieces into light and dark before placing any of them makes the grid easier to read.
• Work the corners and edges first. They have the fewest neighbours to confuse them and give you fixed reference points for the middle.
• Placed pieces are locked, so an early mistake cannot be undone — if you are unsure between two slots, park the piece to one side and come back to it.

Frequently asked questions