Friday, October 16, 2026 · No. 55

Jigsaw · 150 pieces 2026-10-16

Pick a size, then Start. Pieces never rotate — every piece is upright. Same cut for everyone, server-timed.

The 200 & 250 boards need a bigger screen — open this page on a desktop for those.

The clock starts when you hit Start — server-timed.

You're not signed in — play free, unofficial and untimed-on-the-board. Your time shows at the end with the rank it would have earned. Sign in first to make it count.

How to play the jigsaw
  1. Pick a piece count, then Start. Everyone gets the same cut of the same picture.
  2. Drag pieces onto the board. Nothing rotates — every piece is already upright.
  3. Drop a piece close to where it belongs and it snaps in. Snapped pieces move as one group after that.
  4. Scatter reshuffles the loose pieces if the pile gets ugly. It doesn’t touch anything you’ve already placed.

One picture, four cuts, everyone on the same board

There’s a new image every day, cut at 100, 150, 200 and 252 pieces — pick your tier. The cut is deterministic: everyone at your piece count gets the exact same pieces from the exact same picture, which is the only way a jigsaw leaderboard can mean anything. Nothing rotates, and that’s a design decision, not a missing feature — rotation quadruples the fiddling without adding a gram of real difficulty, and this is a race.

Strategy, such as it is

Edges-first is fine but overrated at the small tiers — at 100 pieces you’re faster working the image’s distinctive features outward: a face, a signpost, anything with hard lines. Sort loose pieces into rough color pools before placing much of anything; ten seconds of sorting saves a minute of rummaging. Snapped pieces move as one group, so build islands and bridge them rather than growing one blob from a corner. And when the loose pile turns to soup, Scatter reshuffles it without touching anything you’ve placed.

Timing and fairness

The server times you from Start to the last snap and replays your piece-join log before rating the solve — the same honesty rules as every other board here, detailed in how the honest board works. The 200 and 252 boards genuinely want a desktop screen; the 100 and 150 play fine on a phone.

Previous days’ pictures are in the jigsaw archive.