Daily Jigsaw

One new painting every day, the same one for everyone.

Attention

Today’s picture "The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98 Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)

How to play

Today’s painting is the same for everyone and changes at midnight UTC.
Drag each piece onto the board — close enough to home and it clicks in and stays put.
Pick 12, 24, 48 or 96 pieces to suit how long you have.
Finish it and the puzzle names the painting and its painter, with a link to the museum’s record.

What it trains

A single, shared puzzle a day — a habit rather than an endless feed
Visual and spatial reasoning, plus one painting you did not know before
No timer, no ads, no account, and nothing to lose

A free daily jigsaw puzzle: one painting a day, the same for everybody, changing at midnight UTC. Choose 12 to 96 interlocking pieces and drag them home. Every picture is a public-domain work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, so when the last piece goes in you find out what you have been assembling and who painted it. No download, no ads, no account, and your half-finished puzzle waits for you if you close the tab.

The science behind it

Peer-reviewed studies this exercise draws on.

Jigsaw puzzling taps multiple cognitive abilities and is a potential protective factor for cognitive aging Fissler, Küster, Laptinskaya, Loy, von Arnim & Kolassa (2018). Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10, 299.

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