A painting puzzle for iPhone and iPad
Masterpieces from great museums, cut into pieces. Every matching connection brings colour into the picture, and at the end the original appears. Then you find out what you have just been looking at.
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How a painting comes together
You arrange strips of the picture in different heights until neighbours find each other. Connected pieces stay together and move on as a group.
Every work begins as an open pencil drawing, cut into rectangles. You choose how much calm or challenge you want.
When you find matching neighbours, colour spreads across the lines. The picture grows from many small discoveries.
With your last move the complete painting appears. Afterwards you can zoom in close and read on.
The collection
The works are arranged by era, from the Renaissance to Fauvism, including paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi, Berthe Morisot, Rosa Bonheur and Rachel Ruysch.
c. 1400–1600
Raphael · Vittore Carpaccio · Sandro Botticelli
c. 1600–1750
Peter Paul Rubens · Artemisia Gentileschi · Clara Peeters
c. 1600–1720
Johannes Vermeer · Rembrandt van Rijn · Jan Steen
c. 1700–1780
Jean Siméon Chardin · Canaletto · Jean Honoré Fragonard
c. 1790–1850
Thomas Cole · Joseph Mallord William Turner · Caspar David Friedrich
c. 1800–1850
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
c. 1830–1880
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · Gustave Courbet · Charles-François Daubigny
c. 1860–1910
Claude Monet · Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Camille Pissarro
c. 1880–1910
Vincent van Gogh · Paul Gauguin · Paul Cézanne
from 1886; later developments into the early twentieth century
Georges Seurat · Henri-Edmond Cross · Paul Signac
c. 1870–1910; earlier precursors and later continuations
Odilon Redon · Arnold Böcklin · Edward Burne-Jones
c. 1905–1908
Henri Matisse
Learn more
The river rushes towards you, yet the path to the bridge lies outside the picture. Living, dying and dead oaks stand side by side. Ruisdael combines close observation of nature with a possible reading as an image of transience.
After each finished work you read short texts like this one: what you can see, how it was painted and what research says about it. Backed by sources and free of jargon.
Notice where you are imagined to stand, the light and the small things.
Why Puzzle & Art
Paintings from collections such as the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Rijksmuseum. No generated motifs, every image source checked.
Sketch, underpainting, original: every right connection brings colour into the picture, so each move feels like progress.
After each work, a short, sourced text about the picture, its era and the people behind it. Curiosity, not a test.
No timer, no lives, no ads between moves. A game for ten quiet minutes.
Four levels from 6 to 36 pieces, saved separately. If you get stuck, a small question mark helps.
When you finish, view the painting full screen and zoom in, on iPhone and on the large iPad screen.
Join the waitlist to be among the first to hear when you can try Puzzle & Art.
The game is in development and there is no fixed date yet. If you sign up, we will write to you as soon as the test begins.
Yes. Every original comes from a museum collection such as the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum or the Rijksmuseum and is marked there as public domain. The sketch and underpainting are modern interpretations made for the game. The original stays unchanged.
No. You simply solve the puzzle. If you like, you can read a few paragraphs after each work about the picture, the painter and the era.
No. There is no timer and there are no ads between moves. If you get stuck, a small question mark helps you along.
iPhone and iPad. On iPad the canvas gets bigger, which is ideal for the fine details.
