Free Jigsaw Puzzles Online

What you do

A calm jigsaw puzzle game for a rainy afternoon. Pick a picture from the puzzle shelf, choose how many pieces you want, and the picture is cut into classic jigsaw pieces with tabs and blanks, a new cut each time you start it from the shelf. There is no score and no countdown: a quiet clock keeps your best time for each picture and size. The twelve pictures are original illustrations with plenty to look at: a sleeping cat by a rainy window, an autumn cabin, a lighthouse at dusk, a bakery counter, a farmers market, a snowy street, a potting shed, a bookshop corner, a lakeside dock at sunrise, a mushroom forest, a knitting basket by the fire and hot air balloons over the fields. Finish every picture at any size to complete your collection. Every puzzle you start saves on this device, so you can keep several going and come back to them later.

How to play

1. Press Choose a puzzle (or Continue), pick a picture from the shelf, then choose 12, 24, 48 or 96 pieces. On small screens, sizes whose pieces would be smaller than 40 pixels are turned off.
2. Loose pieces wait in the tray. Drag a piece onto the board. When it lands close to its spot it snaps in and stays there; anywhere else it goes back to the tray.
3. Pieces never need turning. Pieces with a straight side belong on the border: the Edges filter shows only those, and Middle shows the rest.
4. You can also tap a piece to select it and then tap the spot on the board where it goes. If it belongs somewhere else, the game says so and it stays selected.
5. Stuck? Hold Peek to see the whole picture, turn on the ghost picture or the outlines, or press Hint to see where one piece goes.
6. Place every piece to finish the picture and record your time. Finish all twelve pictures, at any size, to complete your collection.

Controls

• Mouse: drag a piece from the tray to the board, or click a piece and then click its spot. The mouse wheel scrolls the tray.
• Touch: swipe along the tray to scroll it. To pick a piece up, drag it toward the board, or touch and hold it for a moment. You can also tap a piece and then tap its spot.
• Keyboard: Tab to the tray and use the arrow keys to choose a piece. Enter picks it up, the arrow keys move it one cell at a time, Enter places it (on the wrong cell it goes back to the tray) and Escape puts it back. G toggles the ghost picture, O the outlines, P peeks, H gives a hint and F changes the tray filter.
• The toolbar has pause, help, optional sound and fullscreen. Its restart button puts the current puzzle’s pieces back in the tray with the same cut; your best times and collection stay.

Tips worth knowing

• Build the border first: switch the tray to Edges, find the four corners (two straight sides each), then join the sides.
• Sort the tray by color and work on one area at a time, like the sky, a red roof or a patterned curtain.
• Look for features that cross between pieces: a window frame, a line of bunting, a path or the edge of a rug.
• The ghost picture shows where colors and shapes sit on the board without giving the pieces away. Peek shows the whole picture, then hides it again.
• Start with 12 or 24 pieces to learn a picture, then try it again with more pieces.

Accessibility

• Everything can be played with a keyboard: the arrow keys choose a piece and move it a cell at a time, Enter places it, and G, O, P, H and F reach the board tools.
• There is no countdown. The clock only records how long a puzzle took, and it stops while the game is paused or the tab is hidden.
• Pieces can be placed by dragging, or by tapping a piece and then its spot, so no precise drag is needed. A dropped piece snaps in when it lands within roughly a third of a piece of its spot.
• Reduced motion removes the lift and snap animations, the tray momentum and the finishing glow.
• Sound is optional and never needed to play.

Guides and roundups

• Rainy Day Jigsaw Guide: Edges, Sizes and Hints
• Free Online Games for Seniors and Older Adults
• Best Cozy Puzzle Games to Play in 2026