Jigsaw Puzzle+ (2022) [+]
May 12 2025
Jigsaw Puzzle is an app that recreates solving a physical puzzle (Jigsaw Puzzle by MobilityWare+ on Apple Arcade). Choose a picture and puzzle size (9 to 1024 pieces) the start. You have a board that you can zoom in or out and an outline of the puzzle (I think these are all square puzzles). On the right is a 1-puzzle wide scrollable pane showing the puzzle pieces which you drag and drop onto the puzzle (or anywhere on the board).
There are a few conveniences:
All pieces are oriented correctly so you don't have to bother rotating.
The pieces pane can show only edge pieces so you can build the edges first.
There is a Fill button to pull all loose pieces on the board back to the pieces pane. This doesn't pull partially assembled sections (so you can assemble puzzle sections anywhere).
When you drop a piece if it's the correct placement there is a little flash and afterwards you can't accidentally pull the pieces apart.
On the downsides:
A big puzzle on my 11" iPad screen is still way too big so you have to zoom into sections to solve.
Scrolling through a thousand-piece puzzle is quite a chore.
Still, I actually found this game enjoyable. Unlike other MobilityWare games it's not really trying to simulate a 3D space so the graphics are just fine. Come to think of it the preferences also seem standard UI not a port from a PC game.
There are a huge number of puzzle sets and on Apple Arcade they're all free. Also a daily puzzle if you want a random challenge (the daily puzzle is from an existing collection not a brand new puzzle).
Naturally when you exit it saves your progress and you can have multiple saved puzzles going with each puzzle having its own timer in case you want to know how long a puzzle takes you to solve. There is also a complete puzzles section to view your previous conquests.
Overall it's pretty good and better than I expected when I saw MobilityWare logo.
2025-05-23:
There are actually four trays so you can sort three colors (or six if you double-up) into three trays and everything else in the first tray.
I was doing a 1024-piece puzzle where every color had multiple subtle shades. Which comes to mind that as far as I can tell no puzzles for color-blind users.
There are a few conveniences:
All pieces are oriented correctly so you don't have to bother rotating.
The pieces pane can show only edge pieces so you can build the edges first.
There is a Fill button to pull all loose pieces on the board back to the pieces pane. This doesn't pull partially assembled sections (so you can assemble puzzle sections anywhere).
When you drop a piece if it's the correct placement there is a little flash and afterwards you can't accidentally pull the pieces apart.
On the downsides:
A big puzzle on my 11" iPad screen is still way too big so you have to zoom into sections to solve.
Scrolling through a thousand-piece puzzle is quite a chore.
Still, I actually found this game enjoyable. Unlike other MobilityWare games it's not really trying to simulate a 3D space so the graphics are just fine. Come to think of it the preferences also seem standard UI not a port from a PC game.
There are a huge number of puzzle sets and on Apple Arcade they're all free. Also a daily puzzle if you want a random challenge (the daily puzzle is from an existing collection not a brand new puzzle).
Naturally when you exit it saves your progress and you can have multiple saved puzzles going with each puzzle having its own timer in case you want to know how long a puzzle takes you to solve. There is also a complete puzzles section to view your previous conquests.
Overall it's pretty good and better than I expected when I saw MobilityWare logo.
2025-05-23:
There are actually four trays so you can sort three colors (or six if you double-up) into three trays and everything else in the first tray.
I was doing a 1024-piece puzzle where every color had multiple subtle shades. Which comes to mind that as far as I can tell no puzzles for color-blind users.