Jigsaws and Puzzles
A thousand pieces without the table being occupied for three weeks.
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A thousand-piece jigsaw occupies a table for three weeks and cannot be interrupted without leaving a building site in the living room. In a browser the table is always there and vanishes when you close the tab, which is why the genre survived the move.
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The jigsaw has a rare property: there is no wrong move. Every piece fits in exactly one place, so you cannot play badly — you can only go faster or slower. That makes it one of the very few digital activities that produce no performance anxiety, and the reason people spend an evening on one instead of watching something.
Logic puzzles work the opposite way, and it is worth knowing which of the two you are opening. A sudoku or a fitting puzzle can be solved badly: one hasty deduction on the third pass and the grid becomes impossible twenty moves later, with nothing having warned you. That tension is the whole pleasure of the genre, and it is the opposite of the jigsaw's calm.
One practical tip: the first thing to set is the piece count. The same picture at 24 pieces is a children's game and at 300 it is half an hour of work. It is the only setting that really changes the game.
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Can I choose the number of pieces?
In most, yes, and it is worth doing: the same picture at 24 pieces is a children's game and at 300 it is half an hour of real work. It is the only setting that genuinely changes the experience.
Is a half-finished jigsaw saved?
Some keep it in the browser, on that device. There is no account holding it, so clearing your browsing data or changing computer starts you over.
What is the difference between a jigsaw and a logic puzzle?
A jigsaw has no wrong move: every piece goes in one place and sooner or later you find it. A logic puzzle can be solved badly, and the game ends in a dead end you built for yourself.