Bamboo Rafts jigsaw puzzle

About this puzzle

Bamboo Rafts is a free online jigsaw puzzle you can play straight in your browser, at any size from 12 to 500 pieces. Drag a piece near where it belongs and it snaps into place; joined pieces then move together as one. Your progress saves on this device, so you can close the tab and carry on later — and every finish earns points towards your next level and grows something in My Garden.

The photograph comes from Pixabay, used under the Pixabay Content License. It is one of the 1,550 pictures shared with the Jigsaw Puzzles app.

How to solve it

How hard one will be comes down to how much sky it gives up. A frame packed with trees is the slower solve; an open meadow under half a frame of cloud is easier than it looks, because cloud carries soft changes of tone you can follow. Find the horizon first — it splits the board into two smaller puzzles — then build the foreground where the detail is densest, and leave plain sky for last.

Puzzle facts

Times are for a newer solver; see how long a jigsaw puzzle takes.

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