Slide (Los Angeles Times)
Slide sixteen tiles back into order to rebuild a photo from the LA Times.
Every day: One new 4x4 sliding-tile puzzle a day, the same for everyone, made from an LA Times photograph and given a punning title; earlier days stay open in the puzzle picker. New puzzle: Midnight US Eastern Time.
Slide is a daily sliding puzzle on the Los Angeles Times games page. Each day a photograph from the paper is cut into a 4x4 grid of tiles and scrambled, and you slide the tiles one at a time until the picture is whole again.
About Slide (Los Angeles Times)
Slide is one of the newest games on the LA Times games page: the first puzzles appeared at the end of September 2026. It is the classic fifteen-puzzle with a newspaper twist. Each day's picture comes from the LA Times' own photography, so far mostly food, bars and restaurants from its food coverage, and each puzzle has a playful title such as Knead for Speed or Something's Fishy.
The picture is cut into a 4x4 grid with one gap. You slide a tile into the gap, which opens a new gap, and keep going until every tile is back in place. The puzzle is the same for everyone that day, and a timer and move count let you compare a clean solve with a messy one. It runs on the Amuse Labs player inside latimes.com, a date picker keeps recent puzzles, and an LA Times account adds streaks and achievements.
It needs no vocabulary or trivia, so it is a good pick for players who want a short visual puzzle beside the paper's word games.
How to play Slide (Los Angeles Times)
- Open Slide on latimes.com/games and look at the scrambled 4x4 picture.
- Click or tap a tile next to the empty space to slide it into the gap.
- Keep sliding tiles to move pieces of the photo toward their places.
- Finish when the picture is whole; the game shows your time.
- Pick an earlier date from the list to play a puzzle you missed.
Tips
- Solve the top row first, then the second, and leave the last two rows to solve together.
- Place the last two tiles of a row as a pair: move them into position side by side, then turn them in.
- Look at the photo's edges and strong colours to tell tiles apart quickly.
Questions
Is LA Times Slide free?
Yes. It plays free on latimes.com; an account only adds streaks and achievements.
Where do the Slide pictures come from?
From the Los Angeles Times' own photographs; recent puzzles have used pictures from its food and restaurant coverage.
When does a new Slide puzzle appear?
At midnight US Eastern Time each day.
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