Jigsaws Galore 6.11

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Play the included jigsaws or design your own--with this capable game package, you can do both. We found Jigsaws Galore's 10 sample images merely adequate, but making your own puzzle is as easy as browsing to your favorite snapshot. Whichever image you choose, you can specify the number and style of the pieces, change their edge style, and customize the appearance of the background.

While playing, you can zoom in on pieces, use trays for sorting, and enable or disable a "ghost" background image of the finished puzzle. For a bigger challenge, set up the timer or try solving a puzzle in Mystery mode, without referring to the finished image. We weren't big fans of Jigsaws Galore's MIDI background music, and its memory use (25MB) seemed excessive. On the other hand, we like the thoughtful Gift feature, which bundles puzzles into executable files you can send your friends.

Bottom line, anyone looking for a simple, quick way to create custom jigsaw puzzles should consider this application a contender.

Publisher's description

From Gray Design :

Jigsaws Galore is the ultimate jigsaw puzzle game. Play the jigsaws included or create your own from your photos and email to friends. A great way to share photos. Realistic traditional jigsaw pieces. Ability to customize jigsaws, colour schemes and music. Outstanding features include a screensaver which searches for images and plays them as jigsaws a capture mode to grab any image on your screen to make into a jigsaw.

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