Compose jigsaw puzzles online. Thanks to the
internet, puzzle players can now compete against each other
online. Complete the puzzle in the shortest time with the least
amount of moves and you will join other great players on our Hall
of Fame. You can choose from among many puzzle pictures and photos
either by thematic categories or by level of difficulty.
Get Puzzle IG from the site. Many colorful
puzzles of different size are included in the game set and the
option to create your own puzzles is available as well. The game
will bring you and your children a wonderful party for a long
time.
A site about the
famous Tangram puzzle. There you can learn about its rich history
and deep math behind it. You can easy make your own set, and then
try solving one of the shapes given in a series of pictures. Last
but not least, you can explore many Tangram links collected at the
site.
The section of
Shockwave.com features jigsaw puzzles, made on the basis of jigsaw
engine developed by The Article 19 Group. Daily a new puzzle is
generated. The puzzle environment gives you almost every option you
need to solve jigsaws.
Stomachion is one of the greatest put-together puzzles known since antiquity. This 14 piece puzzle is attributed to Archimedes. The Archimedes site features this puzzle among other topics about this prominent Greek and his part in history.
Jigsaw Puzzles of the Twentieth Century - nostalgic
tribute to those old good jigsaws. At the same time this is a lively place
with Questions & Answers, and almost two thousand puzzle pictures and jigsaws for collectors and
occasional puzzlers seeking for jigsaw rarities.
A section of
the Madras College Mathematic Department
site. Several
dozens of toothpick puzzles can be found here. But it's not recommended to
look at the
solutions before trying a puzzle. It's promised "soon you will get
hooked."
The purpose of this site as
stated is "to provide information on the various polyforms: poly-ominoes,
-iamonds, -hexes, -cubes etc". Plus a lot of links to the relevant
sites all over the Web. Simply a poly-set of poly-pages.
Free online jigsaw
puzzles. Hundreds of pictures in different puzzle cuts. Different
levels of difficulty are available - from a quick and simple puzzle
of 6 pieces, to a challenging 247 piece cut. Become a JigZone member
and receive the puzzle-of-the-day by email.
This site by Andrea Clarke is dedicated to tangrams and dissection puzzles. In May of 1999 in a contest run by Ulead WebUtilities she won the first of 50 runners up prizes with her pretty nice Tangram animation (see at left).
Tantrix - one of the World's richest and most unique game-puzzles was first invented in 1987 by former New Zealand Backgammon Champion Mike McManaway. You may play Tantrix as a two-three-four player game, and solve it as a matching tile puzzle.
Perhaps, this is the most comprehensive site about the SOMA cube - one of the most remarkable puzzles ever. There you'll find everything about SOMA - its history and theories, several thousand figures and a solving program, newsletters and links...
This site continues and extends a school web project of students from Belgium, devoted to pentominoes. They run a competition - how to fence the biggest pentomino farm. At the site you will find a nice tiny applet solving a 8x8 square with four missing squares. Just join it!