JIGGY

JIGGY is one of the small daily games on Take5Games, the free puzzle site run by J Krishnamurthi alongside word games such as FIFER and Umble and logic games such as Quint and Shahmat. Here the puzzle is a picture. Each day the page deals three of them, and each one is cut into a 5x5 grid of square tiles and muddled.

Every tile is already on the board, so there is nothing to rotate and no pieces to drag in from a tray. You tap one tile, then another, and the two trade places. When every tile sits where it belongs the picture is solved and the next one loads. A counter keeps your moves and a clock runs, though neither decides your medal.

The day's set is numbered and the same for every player on that date. The order of the shuffled tiles comes from the date too, so friends start from the same muddle. The pictures are illustrations, many of them painted scenes such as a fleet of sailing ships in a storm, drawn from a bank of about fifty.

A thumbnail of the finished picture sits under the board. Holding PRESS lays it over the board full size, which helps with skies, seas and other areas where many tiles look alike. If a picture is too much, "Skip picture" counts it as missed and moves on. The medal at the end depends only on how many of the three you solved. Your streak, medals and played count stay on your device, and a share button copies the day's result.

It suits players who want a calm picture puzzle that takes a few minutes, with no account and no ads, on a phone as well as a desktop.