Puzzle Together News

Here's what the December update includes:

• Puzzles can now have up to 3000 pieces!
  
• Every puzzle now has a 40 piece option
  
• Faster sorting of large groups of pieces
  
• Sorting color can now be sampled from the puzzle box
  
• When two sorts are happening at once, pieces no longer scatter everywhere
  
• Fixed a bug when searching for puzzles similar to a custom puzzle
  

Happy holidays, and enjoy the puzzling!

Today's update makes it much easier to find just the puzzle you want to make, by adding a new Search Bar on the Start Puzzle page. Just type a few words describing the sort of picture you're looking for, and a bunch of puzzles fitting that description will appear!

What's more, you can now search for puzzle images that are similar to a puzzle you like. Just press the menu button (...) on a puzzle's icon, and select "Show Similar Puzzles".

These search features are powered by a new and growing collection of millions of images! There's no limit to the variety of puzzles available to you. And of course, you can still generate your own images from a description, or upload your own picture, on the Custom Puzzles page.

There are now so many choices, it would be handy to be able to keep a list of puzzles images you like, and might want to return to later. That's why this update also introduces a new "Favorites" feature. On the Start Puzzle page, just press on the heart on a puzzle's icon to mark that puzzle as a favorite. Select "Favorites" from the Show menu to see your list of favorites.

Finally, the UI has been made a little slicker, shadows are now working properly again, and a few bugs have been fixed.

Enjoy!

This month's update adds a couple of new features to custom generated puzzles, and fixes a longstanding bug.

First, custom generated puzzles can now be made open to the public, so that puzzlers from around the world can join in your creations! When you start your puzzle, simply select "Open to the public" from the dropdown, and your puzzle will appear in the Open Puzzles list for all players.

Puzzle Together is a game for all ages, so if you generate a puzzle image that our filter flags as having adult content, the option to make it open to the public won't be available. You can still play it on your own or with friends you invite, though!

Next, when you unlock a custom generated puzzle that you've created, in addition to being able to make the puzzle with up to 2000 pieces, you'll now also receive 10 free generation credits. It often takes a few tries to generate a puzzle image that looks good, and this will give you more freedom to experiment.

Finally, I've fixed a longstanding bug that would cause pieces to "jump around" when another player moved or connected them. There are also a few other minor bug fixes and tweaks; for example, when you upload a custom puzzle image, you're no longer required to provide a title for the puzzle.

Enjoy!

With today's update, you can now assemble puzzles of any image you can imagine! Simply write a short description of the image you'd like, hit "Generate Puzzle", and in seconds your puzzle will appear. Do you like to make puzzles of anime characters? Landscapes? Dragons? Goats wearing tuxedos? Whatever you can dream up, Puzzle Together can now give you the puzzle.

Simply select "Custom Puzzles" from the menu, enter a description of the image you want, and hit "Generate Puzzle". After a few seconds the new puzzle will appear at the top of your list of custom puzzles. Hit "Play" to select options and start the puzzle. From this start page, you can also hit the download arrow on the puzzle's image, to download the custom image you've generated to your own computer, if you'd like.

It seems a bit like magic, but this is all done using cutting edge AI technology that converts the description you give it into an image. This technology has been integrated with Puzzle Together so you can create exactly the puzzle you want to work on, right when you want it.

You can find lots of examples of images that can be created, as well as a bunch of tips and tricks for creating great puzzles, at Puzzle Together's guide to Generating Custom Puzzles!

Creating these images takes a lot of computing power, but we've kept the price low. You can generate 25 puzzle images for 1 puzzle credit (which costs $1 USD or less), and for a limited time you are given one free puzzle generation per day. Once you've created your puzzles, you can download the image to your own computer if you'd like, and play it with up to 40 pieces. As with any other puzzle you can also unlock it for 1 puzzle credit, allowing it to be played with up to 2000 pieces.

Puzzle Together already had over a thousand great images to choose from, and let you create puzzles from your own images. But with today's update, there is truly no limit to the puzzles you can make!


Examples of puzzle images generated from a description. Click here for more.

This month's update adds one often-requested setting, makes tweaks to improve a few features, and fixes some bugs.

- Under Settings, you can now choose from four different table surfaces: the normal light wood, dark wood, and black and white surfaces. You can choose a table color that contrasts with the puzzle pieces or just makes your eyes more comfortable.

- Pieces can now be dragged while you're in selection mode. You no longer need to switch in and out of selection mode to move several groups of pieces around.

- Fixed a bug that would cause the sorting arrow to pop up sometimes when not wanted, while moving pieces.

- Fixes issues to prevent pieces from occasionally disappearing or becoming stuck and unmovable.

- A few other small usability fixes.