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Deal me a puzzle.

Each button picks a painting at random and a piece count from its range, so every press deals a new table. Easy starts at 25 pieces, small enough to be a few minutes on a break. Brutal runs to 600 and will take the evening. Upright pieces lie the right way up. Tumbled pieces arrive at random angles, so a join usually means finding the angle as well as the neighbour.

• Easy 25 to 60 pieces
  Upright Tumbled
• Medium 60 to 150 pieces
  Upright Tumbled
• Hard 150 to 300 pieces
  Upright Tumbled
• Brutal 300 to 600 pieces
  Upright Tumbled

Or set the count yourself. The table is the surface you build on, and its slider moves through every cut the picture divides into. You can swap the painting for another without leaving it.

Your own picture goes on the same cut. Upload a photo at the table and it is cut into anything from 25 to 600 pieces, in a two-player room as well as on your own. It does not have to hold still either: hand the table an animated gif or a video and every piece goes on playing while you sort it. There is a whole page about that one.

How a table works

The pieces land scattered and you build wherever there is room. Drop one within about a quarter of its own width of where it belongs beside a neighbour and the two clip together, and from then on they travel as one group. Nothing ever splits a group again. Upright is the default. With tumbling on, a piece clips only when its angle agrees as well, and a double click or a double tap turns a group a quarter turn, so you can build a whole corner lying sideways: the table counts itself finished when everything is one group and every piece stands the right way up.

A faint ghost of the picture lies on the mat underneath the whole time, so there is always something there to help you place the next piece. Drag with a mouse or a finger, pinch to zoom on a phone, and a quiet chime marks every join. When the last piece goes in, the picture settles back together whole and the table tells you how many pieces it held and how many quiet minutes it took. Nothing is scored and nothing is ranked against anybody else.

Or choose for yourself

What makes a jigsaw hard.

Piece count is the half everyone talks about. The picture is the other half, and it decides more. What makes a puzzle hard is empty space: snow, bare silk, a gold ground, a plain studio wall, deep shadow. Those are the pieces with nothing on them to tell you where they go, and forty of them will beat four hundred pieces of busy brushwork. So the useful question is not how many pieces you want, it is how much emptiness you are willing to sort by shape alone.

Hard puzzles for adults who want a real challenge

Go for the pictures built on emptiness, not the biggest number. The tables we recommend at the lowest counts are Zen Ink, Korean Painting, Dutch Golden Age and Chinese Painting, and that low ceiling is the warning. A few dark strokes on bare paper, a wide field of bare silk, silk gone evenly brown with age, a face lit out of deep shadow: those are the stretches that hand the eye nothing at all. You cross them by edge shape alone. Keep the count low and let one have the whole evening.

The best pictures for a long evening in

Here you want the opposite: a surface where every piece carries its own mark, so the eye always has something to sort by. The styles that carry the highest counts, up to three hundred, are French Rococo, Animals, Art Nouveau and Flowers. Flat colour inside a firm outline, layered petals, fur that runs in a direction, satin that changes tone every few centimetres: all of it gives a piece somewhere to belong. Among the painters Vincent van Gogh goes highest of all, comfortably to four hundred, because the brushwork is so visible that even a plain patch of wheat or sky has a direction to it.

Landscape and nature puzzles look gentle, and are not

Landscape is the best case for everything above, because it looks like the easy option and is not. European Landscape gives the eye foliage and water to read the whole way through, and then the broad sky arrives and asks for patience. The Sea is close to two builds in one, because rigging, hulls and the clutter of a harbour are dense with clues and go quickly while the open water and the weather have to be sorted by tone. It is a good one to share, one of you on the ships and one on the sky. Winter is the honest one: skaters, dark branches and rooftops are firm anchors to build out from, and then the wide pale snow is where the evening slows right down. Same cut, same count, three different evenings. Cities are the gap here: the collection is built on painters and styles rather than on townscapes, so the closest thing to a city view is a harbour or a riverbank.

For seniors, contrast beats a lower piece count

The kind thing is not fewer pieces, it is stronger contrast and firmer edges. Flat colour inside a dark outline means a piece almost announces itself, and strong colour keeps near neighbours apart instead of letting them blur into each other. Start with French Rococo, Animals, Art Nouveau and Flowers, at whatever count suits you, and play as slowly as you like. Indian painting is worth a look as well: it is the brightest set here, and nearly every picture is framed in a red or blue border that hands you the outside edge in the first few minutes. Avoid the ink paintings and the darkest portraits, where the picture deliberately withholds those clues. Nothing is racing you and nothing is scored, so a table can sit for a week in the same browser and be waiting exactly as you left it.

Jigsaw puzzles for kids

Bold shapes and a small count. The graphic styles do this best, where flat colour sits inside a firm outline and the shapes are big enough to name out loud. Start at 25 to 60 pieces and move up when the sorting stops being the slow part. A table that size is a few minutes rather than an evening, so it stays fun instead of turning into a project, and it can be something you do together after school every day. Animals are a good first table, because fur runs in a direction and a piece tells you which way it lies, and the pictures are beautiful enough to be worth finishing.

The kindest painter and the slowest, side by side

Two painters mark the ends of the range. Vincent van Gogh is the most forgiving set on the site and takes four hundred pieces without turning into work. Camille Corot and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are the slowest, because dissolved edges and broad flat areas leave the eye little to hold. Same site, same cut, two completely different evenings.

Every style has its own page with the pictures in it, and a note on how that style builds: browse them by style or by painter, or open the gallery and pick by eye.

The question everyone asks

What is the best online jigsaw puzzle site?

It depends on what you came for, and more of that is countable than you would think. Here is every site we could check, measured rather than described.

Where we lose. On piece count we lose to a few: Tanggle deals 1,500 where we stop at 600. On sheer number of puzzles we lose to all of them, because Puzzle Garage alone holds seventy times what we do. We have no accounts either, so there are no leaderboards, no syncing between devices, and a puzzle you start on your phone stays on your phone.

What you get instead is an hour inside one painting. Every picture here is a work from the Metropolitan Museum, and building one is the slowest way there is to look at it. You spend an hour on the Great Wave working out where one curl of foam meets the next, or on van Gogh's Irises deciding which blue sits behind which leaf. By the end you know that painting in a way you never do walking past it in a gallery, where you give it thirty seconds and move on. No library of stock photographs can hand you that.

And a voice that needs nothing installed. The talking happens in the browser tab, straight between the two of you and encrypted. Nothing to download, no account, no app, which is what gets you onto a machine that is not yours in the first place: a library computer, a school one, a locked down desktop at work, where the usual voice apps are either blocked or impossible to install. Open the link and you can hear someone you love while the two of you build the same picture. The audio needs a direct connection between the two browsers, and on the rare network locked down tightly enough to block that, the voice is the part that drops. The pieces and the written chat go another way and keep working. That direct connection is also why the table says two seats and not ten, because a bigger room would need a server in the middle that somebody has to pay for. Ten silent seats or two with a voice in them, and we picked the two.

So who is best. If you want the most pieces, it is Tanggle. If you want the most puzzles, it is Jigsaw Planet. If you want to spend an evening inside a painting with someone you can hear, this is the only one on the list that does it.

How each site runs on your machine. On 7 September 2026 we put every site through the same public checks: a Lighthouse pass for speed and accessibility, a count of the security headers it sends, and a real browser watching what each page loads from elsewhere. On raw speed we and the two quickest sites sit within a few points of one another, which is inside the wobble of the test itself. On the rest we are at the top of the list: 100 for accessibility where the next site manages 97, six security headers out of six where the best of the others has five, a Website Carbon rating of A+ on our own pages, and no outside domains contacted at all while you play, which is why there is nothing to dismiss before you start. An asterisk in the table marks a number a site claims and we could not count for ourselves.

The other tables

Six ways to build one picture.

Five more puzzle games on the same paintings and the same cut, each changing one rule about how the pieces behave. Classic, Monopole, the Switching Puzzle and Impossible open for two as well as for one. Jigsaw Solitaire and Jigiban are one-player games.

• Classic

  One picture, one cut, from 25 to 600 pieces. Pieces lie upright, or tumble if you ask them to.

• Jigsaw Solitaire

  A patience deal for one. Pieces wait in eight columns and a stock, and you free them group by group.

• Jigiban

  The picture arrives nearly finished. A paper helper walks the last pieces home, one push at a time.

• Monopole

  The pieces are magnetic. Some pull together, some shove apart, and you work with the field instead of against it.

• Switching Puzzle

  Ten paintings share one table. Every join you make changes the whole picture to the next one.

• Impossible

  The hard one. Every join changes every picture at once, so the table never settles.

Questions

The usual questions.