Photo Jigsaw
Twenty scrambled photo pieces, one picture waiting to reappear — and every swap counts.
About This Game
Twenty scrambled photo pieces, one picture waiting to reappear — and every swap counts. This jigsaw runs on a clean trade mechanic: on a 4x5 board, pick any two tiles and they exchange places instantly, with no fiddly rotating or edge-hunting.
Your score is the move counter, and lower is better, which quietly turns a relaxing pastime into a planning puzzle. Careless shuffling still completes the picture eventually; sharp play means reading the image first — sky at the top, colors flowing in gradients, details that anchor a tile to its row — then swapping with intent.
The elegant ceiling: when two pieces sit in each other's homes, one swap fixes both. Finish the board and the photo snaps whole with a firework send-off.
Best of all, you can load your own photo to puzzle over — it is handled right on your device and never saved anywhere. A gentle brain-stretcher for puzzle lovers, photo hoarders, and efficiency perfectionists alike.
Game Tips
- 🏅 Your record is move count — fewer swaps, better score.
- 🎯 Only make swaps that send a piece straight home — zero waste.
- 🔍 Picking a piece up and setting it back doesn't count as a move.
Controls
- Drag a piece onto another piece: swap the two pieces
- ← ↑ → ↓ : move the cursor
- Space · Enter : pick up a piece, press again to swap it
- Esc : cancel the selection
Game info
- Players
- 1 player
- Developer
- PLAYMINIT — original game, made in-house
- Released
- 2026.05.12
- Last updated
- 2026.11.05
- Version
- v1.6
- Scoring
- moves · Lower is better
- Monthly ranking
- Supported
- Controls
- Touch · Keyboard
Dev Log
- v1.6
Behind-the-scenes cleanup
- No changes to gameplay
- v1.5
Sound and vibration
- Added vibration feedback
- Added a chime when a piece lands in its spot
- Fixed pieces getting stuck when using two fingers
- v1.4
Play Again fix
- Fixed Play Again not starting a new puzzle
Earlier versions (4)
- v1.3
Keyboard controls
- Added arrow keys or WASD to move, Space or Enter to swap
- v1.2
Leaderboard
- Leaderboard now ranks the fewest moves
- v1.1
Bigger 4x5 puzzle
- Puzzle grows from 3x3 to 4x5
- v1.0
First release
- Swap pieces to rebuild a scrambled photo on a 3x3 board
- Upload your own photo to make a puzzle
