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A snapshot of the
screen with a going on puzzle |
Never has been so easy and fun having unlimited jigsaw puzzles. With BrainsBreaker, a game for PCs running Windows, now it is possible to take any photograph and turn it into a jigsaw puzzle, ready to put together at any time.
The program has been carefully
designed to give you the same functionality and -most important- the same
sensations and pleasures you feel when doing a carton jigsaw puzzle.
As in the real world, the pieces are scattered around the table (the whole screen)
and you have to sort them and figure out their position and find interlocking
pieces either by its color or its shape.
Handling of pieces is done with single mouse operations, you pick a piece pointing over it and clicking, then you just drag it wherever you want and drop it releasing the mouse.
To do other operations you have always the menus for the objects that are onscreen, this is the menu that appears when you right-click over a jigsaw piece:
As can be seen in the sample at the left the pieces can be rotated with the menu but any menu option has its
corresponding keyboard shortcut so for rotating a piece of the jigsaw you can
press the Ctrl key and click on it.
Notice also that the menu options have a cartoon-like bubble explaining what is it.
As you can see there is an option also for nailing down a piece, this avoids moving it when you find a position you want to keep.
There are other helpful features such as "boxes" (they are for storing
temporarily pieces), a magnifying glass, the ability to move several pieces at
once, an indication when a group of locked pieces hides others below, an
optional scoring system to give it some extra amusement to the game and the
ability to print the puzzle - as is or completed- on paper, ready for hanging it
on the wall.
The puzzle is cut each time your
start it, this means that the same one will be different each time you start it
as the computer will cut it randomly.
The number of pieces of a puzzle is only limited by the size of your screen. You can make a jigsaw of 1000 pieces on the usual monitor size but this is not a limit, a big photo can make easily 2000 pieces or more.
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You can save your going on
puzzle and later at any time recover it exactly as you left it. The program has
a puzzle selector tool (see and click at the left). It allows choosing what new
puzzle you want to start or if you have some going on one to continue. At the left there is
a list of "shelves", they are independent places for storing the puzzles.
Creating a new
jigsaw
puzzle is a snap: When you have the desired image on the screen press the
"Print Screen" key (it's at the right of the F12 key), the program
will ask you if you want a jigsaw puzzle with what was on the screen.
The next step is just choosing the number of pieces of the new puzzle or leave the option for the time when starting the jigsaw. Some other optional details like the background color and voilá, a new puzzle ready to play.
Well, enough talk, you can download the BrainsBreaker jigsaw puzzle program freely here and see all this and more for yourself. It comes with three jigsaws fully playable at different levels each one so you will have hours of relax and fun for free.
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