Free Online Jigsaw Puzzles You Can Play With Someone Else

Browser jigsaw puzzles fall into three groups, and which one you want depends on whether you are filling twenty minutes or doing something with another person.

1 · Daily-puzzle sites

Large libraries of stock images, a new one each day, usually free and ad-supported. Good for killing time. The images are commercial stock, so the experience is the same as a shop-bought puzzle without the box.

2 · Puzzle games with progression

App-style, with levels, collections and unlockables. Nominally free, generally monetised through adverts or piece-count paywalls. Good if you want a habit; frustrating if you want to solve one picture.

3 · Upload-your-own-photo puzzles

You supply the image. This is the only category where the puzzle is about something, and it is the one most people actually want once they know it exists — the picture of your own dog is inherently more interesting than a stock lighthouse.

Playing with another person

This is the part most free puzzle sites do not do, and it is the most interesting thing a browser puzzle can offer that a cardboard one cannot: two people, two places, one board, at the same time.

Things worth checking before you commit to a site for this:

• Does it need accounts? If both people must register, one of them will not.
• Does it need an install? A browser link works on a borrowed laptop; an app does not.
• Is it actually live, or does it just merge progress afterwards? Live means you see the other

person's pieces move.

• Can you use your own photo? Shared puzzles are much better when the image means something to

both people.

How ours works

Upload a photo, choose 100, 300, 500 or 1000 pieces, and play it in the browser. It is free and there is no account. To play with someone, share the link the puzzle gives you — they open it and you are both on the same board, with pieces moving in real time under each other's hands. Two players per room.

If you finish it and want it on a table rather than a screen, you can order the printed version of the same photo at the same piece count. That is optional and always has been; the playing is not a trial.

Choosing a photo: pick one with detail spread across the whole frame. Sky, snow and plain backgrounds are as miserable on screen as they are on cardboard — see which photos work as a puzzle.