Daily Jigsaw

The Daily Jigsaw game is a great game to play if you like to improve on your skills on a regular basis. With a choice of different difficulty levels, from 104, 150, 228 or 400 pieces, each day you can see where your level is so that you can see how well you are progressing. I found it best to start with 104 pieces first. I was always pretty good at jigsaws growing up, but playing on line through flash shockwave software with the Daily Jigsaw made it so much more exciting than I had ever remembered it in the past. You can mix up the puzzle in the middle if you get a bit stuck putting the pieces on one side, to a corner, or throughout the entire space available. If you get really stuck and frustrated, you can press the Solve icon which arranges all the pieces as they should be for you (that way you can see how it is meant to look so that the next time you try to solve it yourself, you know what vision you are trying to create). But the Preview feature also gives you this (showing you a picture of the puzzle complete). For a bit more help (without pressing Solve), I often use Edges which shows me the edge pieces and helps out a little. And you can rotate too which rotates the pieces you have not yet put in the right place (and then turn them around again for the game, but it can help to see the pieces from a different angle).

If you want to move around more than one piece at a time, click on the Move icon but remember that while moving the pieces you cannot connect other pieces; nor can you move the pieces which have been set in place already. You can pause the timer too if you feel you need more time so there are a lot more options when playing Daily Puzzle on line than there were in my day playing on the floor! The game is also a great way for newcomers to computers to develop mouse control.