Online puzzle

Just like card games and other traditional pastimes, puzzles are also experiencing a second youth thanks to their digital transpositions.

There are, in fact, many free sites that allow children (but not only) to have fun composing online puzzles based on photos of landscapes, animals, famous paintings and other subjects of all kinds.

Now I would like to point out some that I think are worth keeping in mind for all puzzle enthusiasts and for children who go in search of healthy entertainment in front of the PC screen.

Let’s start with Jigidi , one of the best online puzzle sites that allows you to play with hundreds of illustrations divided by subject and size (number of pieces). Registering on the site is free and optional: puzzles can be solved even without completing it but registered users have several advantages, such as the ability to save progress in completing the puzzles and create personalized puzzles starting from their photos.

To play on Jigidi, connected to the home page of the site and use the drop-down menus located next to the Filter puzzles item to indicate the topic and level of difficulty of the puzzles you want to solve. The topics available are many: animals, art, buildings, objects, etc. and the same goes for the difficulty of the puzzles, ranging from a minimum of 0-60 pieces (small) to a maximum of over 400 pieces (huge).

Once you have identified the puzzle you want to try your hand at, first click on its preview image, then on the Solve puzzle button and use the mouse to “fit” the pieces of the photo. You can also increase or decrease the zoom level of the image using the + and – buttons (located at the top right) and pause the game when you need a break. Adobe’s Flash Player is needed to access the puzzles.

Another very interesting site dedicated to online puzzles is Jigsaw Planet which allows you to try your hand at recomposing hundreds of different images without having to register and – unlike Jigidi – it does not need Flash Player to work. This means that you can also use it from tablets and other portable devices.

To browse the illustrations available on Jigsaw Planet, connect to the main page of the site and place the mouse cursor on the Explore tab . At this point, select the item Total most played from the menu that appears to view the list of the most popular puzzles or select the item Popular tags to view the puzzles based on the type of photos on which they are based: animals, landscapes (landscape) , paintings (paint) and so on.

Once you have identified the puzzle to be composed, click on its preview image (on which you will also find the number of pieces from which the illustration is composed) and use the mouse to solve the game. At the bottom of the page, you will also find buttons to remind you how the image to be composed is made (those with the photo and ghost icon ) and to arrange the pieces of the puzzle at the edges of the screen (item Arrange ).

Among the online puzzle sites in Italian I point out JS Puzzles which is completely free and does not require registration to be used. Works on any browser, operating system and device. In fact, it does not even require the presence of Flash Player to be used.

Connect to its home page and select one of the categories listed under the heading Our gallery (puzzles entered by the site’s editors) or under the heading User album gallery (puzzles uploaded by registered users) to browse all the available illustrations. Next, click on the thumbnail of the puzzle you want to try your hand at and choose the type / number of pieces you want the image to be broken up into. Finally, click the Play button and start having fun!

Do not forget to take a “stroll” also on the National Geographic website which hosts virtual puzzles based on some spectacular illustrations dedicated to nature, to important events and to all the most beautiful places in the world. To play, first click on the preview of one of the photos available on the site and then on the play button .