Pirate Jigsaw

Pirates are not such a common threat anymore, but they used to be very dangerous if you happened to be a merchant a few hundred years ago. The seas were not very safe without an escort, because many people preferred to steal instead of work. Hence, pirates were well-known for their habit of hiding treasures on secluded islands in order to retrieve them when the time was right.

Pirate Jigsaw is a puzzle game in which you have to put images back together as quickly as you can in order to earn points. The puzzles feature all sorts of pirate-related objects and scenes, and the difficulty level increases the more of them you manage to solve. Granted, there is no action involved in the process, so don’t expect any pirate fights or anything of the sort, because you only deal with jigsaw puzzles.

The first couple of stages feature only a handful of pieces for you to connect, and you can do so very quickly if you are experienced in the genre. However, later on the levels get trickier, especially since you also have to rotate pieces in order to place them in the right spot. Not only that, but the puzzles start to require hundreds of pieces, so most of your time is spent shuffling through them.

There are no groundbreaking notions in the gameplay department, so all you need is a mouse and a lot of patience. You can pick up and drag pieces around the screen with ease, and they instantly connect if they are a match. It must be mentioned that you really have to get them very close in order for them to snap together, which can be a bit of an annoyance when you are dealing with small pieces.

As for the rest of the interface, there is nothing to distract you from the task at hand, given the fact that the screen is as clean as it gets. There’s a helpful bar at the bottom that features a few extra options, on the other hand, such as the possibility to ask for a hint. You can an also toggle the background image to make things a bit easier, but the added colors can make it difficult to spot individual pieces.

The pirates are the only somewhat different element in Pirate Jigsaw, because everything else is borrowed from all the other jigsaw games out there. Thus, it’s great to pass the time, but it’s far from a revolutionary title.

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