A jigsaw puzzle for adults. Pick pieces out of a tray and work an image back together, from 25 pieces to 500 — fully offline, with no account, and with nothing collected about you at all.
The name is the thing you are working out of: a tangle of pieces that only resolves once you have found the way through it. Thicket is the first game from Get Puzzled, and it sets the standard the other five are built to.
Almost nothing that makes a digital jigsaw good is visible in a screenshot. Two apps can show the same picture cut into the same number of pieces and be completely different games, because the difference lives in how the pieces behave under your finger.
So that is where the work went. A piece has to be grabbable at the size a finger actually covers. It has to commit when you mean it to and stay loose when you do not. A misplacement has to be recoverable without undoing the last ten minutes. The tray has to offer something like what you were about to reach for. Get those wrong and no amount of art rescues it; get them right and the puzzle simply disappears, which is the whole point.
Most digital jigsaws reuse one cutting pattern and swap the image behind it. Play a few and you stop solving the picture — you start recognising the shapes, because the corner piece with the two tabs is the same corner piece it was last time.
Thicket generates its cut lines per board. The same image at the same piece count gives you a different set of pieces on a second run, so the edges you learned last time do not help you this time. It is the difference between a puzzle and a memory test.
Images are commissioned and curated rather than generated, and each carries its provenance. The test we apply is simple and not especially forgiving: is this worth looking at for the half hour it takes to rebuild? A surprising amount of stock art fails it. Packs are organised by subject rather than by difficulty, because what you want to spend an evening inside is a question about taste, not about skill.
Text scales with your system settings, controls are sized to be hit reliably, colour is never the only thing distinguishing one state from another, and the app is tested with screen readers. A jigsaw is a demanding case for this — it is an inherently visual, inherently fiddly game — which is exactly why it is treated as correctness rather than as a backlog ticket. If something is hard to read, hard to hit, or does not work with your assistive technology, that is a defect. Tell us and we will fix it.
Thicket is made for adults and is rated 13+. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them — which is straightforward, since we collect nothing from anyone.
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