Shatterframe gameplay: Level 13 is a timed 3×3 jigsaw of a photograph of colourful houses on a Burano canal, with two pieces on the board and seven in the wooden tray. One by one they are dragged into place until the picture is whole. Play Shatterframe in your browser

Shatterframe

Broken picture? Put it back together

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Picture puzzle40 levelsWeb browser

Rebuild paintings, prints and photographs from Wikimedia Commons: classic jigsaws and puzzles where you swap or turn the pieces.

One picture, six ways to solve it. Race the clock, work from memory or go in blind, and everything you restore joins your collection.

  • Shatterframe gameplay: a jigsaw of an arctic fox in the snow, half assembled, with the missing places blurred, seven pieces left in the wooden tray and the Peek, Where? and Place aids on the left.

    Level 4, the arctic fox

  • Shatterframe gameplay: Level 26 is a rotate puzzle of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, cut into 36 square tiles turned every which way, with 36 left to set right.

    Level 26, turn every tile

  • Shatterframe gameplay: the timed final level, Klimt’s The Kiss as a 49-piece jigsaw, with 4:20 on the clock, gold pieces scattered over the blurred picture and more waiting in the tray.

    Level 40, against the clock

  • Shatterframe gameplay: a Memory level of Van Gogh’s The Bedroom in Arles, where the picture is shown once and then hidden, with part of the bed, chair and window pieced back from memory and 14 pieces left in the tray.

    Level 22, from memory

  • Shatterframe gameplay on a phone: the first jigsaw, a close-up of coloured pencils, with two pieces in place, the rest of the picture blurred and ten pieces left in the tray below.

    Level 1, the first pieces

  • Shatterframe gameplay on a phone: a swap puzzle of a colourful Burano courtyard, the top rows already back in place and 17 tiles still out of order below.

    Level 15, swap them home

  • Shatterframe gameplay on a phone: a jigsaw of the Keyhole Nebula photographed by Hubble, its first glowing orange and blue pieces in place over the blurred picture, with 30 pieces left in the tray.

    Level 37, the Keyhole Nebula

  • Shatterframe main menu on a phone: The Great Wave off Kanagawa shown in shattered tiles under the title, with Continue at Level 19 and Campaign, Jigsaw, Madness, Collection, Studio and Goals below.

    Shatterframe on a phone

How it plays

Each level cuts a picture into pieces, and there are three ways to put it back. In Jigsaw, drag them from the tray into place. In Swap, tap two tiles and they trade places. In Rotate, tap one until it sits upright.

Where the pictures come from

The puzzles use paintings, prints and photographs from Wikimedia Commons under licences that allow reuse. When attribution is required, the game gives it. Sources for the images in the screenshots on this page are listed below.

Facts

Genre
Picture puzzle
Levels
40 levels
Platform
Web browser
Status
Released
Progress
Kept in your browser until you clear site data
Ads
None: in the web version, “Watch ad” gives you the reward straight away and shows nothing

Picture credits

Public domain: The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh;The Bedroom in Arles by Vincent van Gogh;The Kiss by Gustav Klimt;Ocean waves by Katsushika Hokusai;The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai;Arctic fox in snow by Keith Morehouse, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service;Keyhole Nebula (Hubble, 1999) by NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)

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