Jigsaw.app

This GNUstep program will let you play a jigsaw puzzle using an image of your choice as input. Installation instructions for GNUstep are at the GNUstep website. GNUstep is based on NeXTStep of NeXT machine fame and a predecessor of Cocoa.

Here is an example of what it looks like:

Compile with GNUstep make and run it with

openapp ./Jigsaw.app images/WMC_EagleOwl.jpg

Usage instructions

You need a medium-sized TIFF/PNG/JPEG file to play this game.
Left-click and drag to move a piece or cluster.
Ctrl-left-click and drag to connect knobs to slots or slots to knobs.
Right-click to disassemble a cluster, undoing the steps taken during assembly in as far as the structure has been preserved.
Ctrl-right-click to extract a piece from a cluster.
Shift-right-click to extract a connected component from a cluster that contains pieces not sharing a common boundary.
The direction of the connecting arrow that appears during joins can be used to choose the order of the join.
Click on the desktop to display the Scramble/Verify/Solve menu for a given document.

It can be difficult to manipulate two pieces that are very close together. It helps to move one of them so that they are at a greater distance.

Download

Download Jigsaw.tgz here.