Jigsaw Puzzle Maker

Common questions

How do I make a jigsaw puzzle from my own photo?

Choose a picture, or drop or paste a PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP or BMP file, then set the number of pieces, pick a difficulty and press Make puzzle. Before you make it, the board previews the cut lines on your picture. Making the puzzle moves every piece into a tray in a seeded shuffled order, and the board starts empty.

Can I use this jigsaw puzzle software on Windows or Mac?

Yes. This is a free browser program with no account or installation needed. Use a browser that supports image decoding and canvas on Windows, Mac or a phone. It makes puzzles from pictures you supply; it does not generate pictures or sell manufactured puzzles.

How many pieces can the puzzle have?

For interactive play, you ask for 4 to 300. The maker picks the grid that best balances staying close to that count with keeping the pieces near square for your picture's shape, at least 2 × 2 and never under 8 pixels a side. A 4000 × 3000 photo at 48 pieces gives 8 × 6, and a 1920 × 1080 picture at 300 gives 23 × 13, which is 299 pieces. The line under the settings shows the exact grid before you make it.

Can I make a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle?

Yes. Choose your picture and set Seed, then use Print 1000-piece cut sheet or Download 1000-piece cut sheet (PNG). These separate actions make exactly 1000 pieces on your working photo, choosing a factor grid with cells at least 8 pixels on each side. A 4000 × 3000 photo becomes a 2400 × 1800 working sheet with a 40 × 25 grid and 60 × 72 pixel cells. Too-small or thin working pictures are refused. The 1000-piece sheet uses the current Seed even while you play an earlier puzzle, and preserves your game and saved progress. Interactive play and the Pieces field stay at 4 to 300.

How big can the picture be?

Up to 12,582,912 pixels (12 × 1024 × 1024), which fits a 12 MP phone photo at 4032 × 3024, with each side from 32 to 16,384 pixels. The size is read from the file's header first, so a larger picture is refused before it is decoded, and the message suggests a size that fits. Pieces are cut from a working copy whose longest side is at most 2,400 pixels.

Is my picture uploaded or saved anywhere?

The picture is read in this browser tab and never uploaded. This browser can keep one puzzle's grid, seed, difficulty, placements, turns, tray order and tries, plus a file fingerprint and your last piece count and difficulty. Choose the original picture file again to continue; an edited or re-saved file may not match. The picture itself is not saved. Making a new puzzle replaces the saved one. The Saved readout shows progress accepted by browser storage.

Can I play with a keyboard or on a phone?

Yes. With a keyboard, the arrow keys move through the loose pieces and Enter picks one up; on the board, the arrows move between slots, Enter places the piece, Escape puts it back and R turns it when pieces start turned. On a touch screen, tap a piece and then tap its slot; with a mouse or pen you can also drag a piece onto its slot. On narrow screens every board slot stays at least 44 pixels and the board scrolls inside its own frame.

What do the difficulty levels change?

Guide picture shows a faint copy of your picture under the board. No guide shows only the grid. No guide, turned pieces also starts pieces turned by quarter turns, and a piece has to be rotated upright before it fits its slot.

Can I print it and cut out a real puzzle?

Yes. Print cut sheet opens your browser's print dialog with the picture and cut lines. Download cut sheet (PNG) saves the same sheet at the working copy's size. Print it on card and cut along the lines. To save a PDF, choose Save as PDF in the print dialog if your browser or operating system offers it; the direct download button produces PNG.

Can I make a blank jigsaw template or pattern without a picture?

Yes. Set Pieces and Seed, then use Print blank template or Download blank template (PNG). These buttons make a white 1000 × 1000 pixel square with seeded jigsaw outlines, without choosing a picture. The line above them shows the actual grid: asking for 48 pieces gives 7 × 7, or 49 pieces. Print it at the size you need, or choose Save as PDF if your print dialog offers it. Blank templates do not replace your photo puzzle or its saved progress.

What does the seed do?

The seed sets the tab shapes, the order of the pieces in the tray and, with turned pieces, how each piece starts turned. The same picture, piece count and seed always cut the same puzzle. A new seed is drawn each time the page opens and New seed draws another; type a seed to repeat a cut. Changing Pieces or Seed updates the preview and blank template. The separate 1000-piece photo sheet always uses the current Seed and ignores the Pieces field. A puzzle already in play keeps its original cut until you make a replacement.