About Jigsaw
Rebuild stained-glass pictures on a glazier’s bench. Choose a picture and one of four piece counts, then drag each shard near its place to snap it home. Loose pieces stay where you put them, and placed pieces stay fixed. Your unfinished pane saves with every shard in position.
How to play
- Goal
- Set every shard back into its place in the frame.
- How it ends
- A pane is finished when the last shard is set. There is nothing to lose.
- Record
- The fastest finish of each pane at each cut.
- Pick a pane and a cut and press Set the glass. The picker holds two hundred and twenty-eight pictures on nine shelves — or press Surprise me and take what you are given. The frame appears with the picture ghosted inside it, the shards lie scattered on the bench around it, and the clock starts.
- Drag a shard onto its place. You do not have to be accurate, only near: let it go anywhere close and it takes, with a click, and from then on nothing can knock it out.
- A shard dropped anywhere else stays exactly where you put it. Sort the bench however you like; nothing ever springs back to a pile.
- Gather (the button, or G) re-lays the loose shards in a tidy ring without touching anything you have set.
- The clock starts when the glass is dealt and does not stop. A pause does stop it, and gives up the run's place and its personal best. Leaving keeps the pane — it is waiting on the title screen with every shard where you left it — but a pane you come back to keeps no place and no best, because the clock cannot follow you across a closed tab.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Drag · Swipe | Move a shard; let go near its place and it takes |
| , · . | Choose which loose shard you are holding |
| ↑ ↓ ← → | Move the cursor over the frame |
| Enter | Put the held shard down at the cursor |
| G | Gather the loose shards |
| Esc | Pause — which gives up the run's place |
| R · Restart | Take every shard off (asks first); the clock keeps running |
Good to know
There are 228 pictures with four cuts each: 912 boards. Pausing or returning to an unfinished pane keeps the puzzle but makes that attempt ineligible for rankings and personal bests. The faint guide picture is always visible.
