11 Places To Play Free Jigsaw Puzzles

You'll find a ton of free jigsaw puzzles created by Dave Fisher, your About.com Guide to Puzzles. There are puzzles on just about every subject imaginable including animals, anime and art just to name a few!

These puzzles are really great because you can download the jigsaw puzzle and play it right on your computer. No installations or special plug-ins needed.

At JigZone.com you'll find a ton of different free jigsaw puzzles that include animals, art, flowers, holidays, nature scenes, sports, travel and more.

Besides having a lot of great puzzles, JigZone.com has a couple of great features that really set them a apart. A timer keeps track of how long it takes you to complete the puzzle and you can then compare it to the fastest and average times.

Another great feature is that from each jigsaw puzzle image, you can choose a different variety of cut as well as a number of pieces anywhere from 6 to 247.

Jigidi has hundreds of free online jigsaw puzzles that are uploaded by users. You put the puzzle together on a large white area that makes the puzzle pieces really easy to see. You can zoom in and out to get a different view of the puzzle you're working on.

There's not many frills at Jigidi but the big interface makes it easy to see and fun to complete the puzzle.

The free jigsaw puzzles at JSPuzzles.com can all be customized to have different backgrounds and sizes. Each puzzle is timed and then compared with the best and average times so you can see how you compare to other visitors completing the jigsaw puzzles.

A unique feature of JSPuzzles.com is that while you're working on the puzzle, it tells you how many moves you have played and how many pieces you have left.

There's a ton of free online jigsaw puzzles available here and they are images of just about every subject you can think of. For each puzzle you can choose the difficulty level and layout size to meet your skill level.

If you have trouble with the jigsaw puzzle you can view a small picture or ghost image as you work on it. If you want to make it more challenging, try turning off the auto-fit feature.

Just Jigsaw Puzzles has over 1,800 jigsaw puzzles that you play directly from your browser. Besides free jigsaw puzzles, you'll also find an online tool that will make a jigsaw puzzle out of an image that you upload.

You can change the level of difficulty for each image at Just Jigsaw Puzzles by changing the number of puzzle pieces you're working with as well as the shape of the cut.

PuzzleHouse.com has a few hundred free online jigsaw puzzles. You get to choose easy, medium or difficult levels for each puzzle which makes this a great site for beginners as well as jigsaw puzzle masters.

In order to play the jigsaw puzzle games at PuzzleHouse.com, you have to install a Shockwave plugin.

Shockwave has a lot of free jigsaw puzzles but some of them you have to pay for. The daily jigsaw puzzle is a lot of fun and you can customize the number of pieces, background color and the way they're shuffled.

The best feature of the Shockwave puzzles is that you can save your progress on a puzzle and come back to it later.

TheKidzpage.com has free jigsaw puzzles for you guessed it - kids. Although most of them are geared towards kids I found many of them to be appropriate and challenging for adults as well. They've got all kinds of categories including Bugs 'n' Slugs and Food & Candy.

While completing the jigsaw puzzles here, you can get a picture hint and shape hint if you get stuck.

Curiosoft has got a ton of free jigsaw puzzles for kids. For each puzzle, you can choose the difficulty level - easy, medium or hard.

All of the puzzles here are fun cartoon images that are appropriate for preschool up to middle school aged kids.

Puzzle Games has a big selection of free jigsaw puzzles. This is a no frills site with no options for the puzzles but they have fun clear images that make for a quick puzzle game.