The Puzzle Table

Cut a photograph into pieces. Put it back together with someone.

Any picture becomes a real jigsaw you can play in your browser, share with one link, and finish at a table over several evenings. Your own photographs are free, always.

See the scenes

A photograph, cut into 15 pieces. Drag one.

Three ways in

Your photo, as it is

The one already on the fridge. Upload, cut, play, share.

Free, unlimited

Your photo, somewhere else

Your people, another century. Their faces kept exactly as they are; only the setting changes.

Studio

A picture you describe

No photograph at all. A thing you invent in a sentence, cut into pieces.

Studio

The scenes

Somewhere for your people to stand. Choose one, and the faces from your photograph are carried into it, unchanged. Nothing is public unless you send the link, and the plain photograph is always free.

Heritage

Studio Portrait 1946
Kitchen Window Light
The Family Farm
Sunday Best 1962
Renaissance Oil
Wartime Letter 1944
The Crossing 1907
Front Porch, Summer

Places and eras

Diner at Night 1954
Winter Village
Botanical Plate
Star Map

Whimsy

Wild West Portrait
Meadow
Deep Sea

or describe your own.

How it works

  1. 01Choose the picture
  2. 02Choose how fine to cut it
  3. 03Play, alone or by link
  4. 04Keep it, and watch it come together again

What it costs

Free

$0

Your photographs, unlimited, at every size the table cuts. Sharing included. No account needed to play.

12 · 24 · 50 · 100 · 150 · 200 pieces

Cut a photo now

One-time unlock

$9 once

The scenes: your people carried into another century, and the pictures you describe. Three to try for free.

Studio · the only thing here that costs us anything to make

Every scene is checked before it is cut, and every face stays exactly as it was in your photograph.

Paid one time. Not a subscription.

Try the scenes

There is a minute near the end when one piece is left and everyone at the table knows who should place it.

Every finished puzzle can become the cover of a book about the people in it — bookraising.org.