Play jigsaw puzzles online with friends: how rooms work

Updated November 6, 2026

A jigsaw room on Puzzle Temple is one shared board. Everyone who opens the room is looking at the same pieces and moving them live, from their own computer, tablet or phone, with nothing to install. Your friends can join as guests, so nobody has to make an account first. This guide walks through starting a room, getting people into it, and what the person who started it can do.

Start a room

On the Jigsaw page you choose three things, one after another:

1. The mode. Classic gives the picture a frame that pieces click into. Tabletop has no frame: pieces start scattered and turned, and connected groups move together. Classic is the gentler choice for a mixed group; Tabletop feels more like a real table.
2. The size. Easy is about 24 pieces, Medium about 100, Hard about 300, Expert about 1,000, Master about 1,400 and Legend about 1,800. Pick the size for the people you have: a few friends and an evening suits Medium or Hard, and a full room can take Expert or more.
3. The picture. Choose a photo from one of the collections, which are themed sets that change with the seasons, or upload your own. A photo you upload is used only for your room and is deleted when the room is.

Invite people

• The invite button. Inside the room, next to the room code at the top left, the share button copies the room's link to your clipboard. On a phone or tablet it opens the share sheet instead, so you can send the link straight to a chat. Anyone who opens the link joins the room.
• The code. Every room has a six-character code. Someone can type it into the Join a room box on the Jigsaw page.

A room holds up to 10 players. Guests are welcome; a friend can pick a name and start placing pieces straight away. There is no chat built in, so most groups talk on a call or in a message app while they puzzle.

Puzzling together

• You see the other players' cursors, with their names, and the pieces they are carrying.
• A piece someone is holding cannot be taken from them, so nobody fights over a piece. When they put it down, anyone can pick it up.
• The room has a shared clock. It runs while people are playing and pauses when nobody is there, so the time at the end is the time you spent actually puzzling.

A few habits make a group faster. Give each person a job, such as one person on the border, one on the sky, one on the building. Sort pieces into piles in empty space so everyone can find them. And use the reference picture in the corner when the group disagrees about where something goes. The solving guide has the method and the controls.

What the creator can do

• Lock the room. The padlock beside the player list locks the room: other players can look around, but can only move pieces while you are in it. Unlock it to let everyone play whether you are there or not.
• Add collaborators. Click another player's name and choose Add as collaborator. Only signed-in players can be collaborators, and the room then appears in their own list of rooms, marked as shared by you.
• Remove a player. Click their name and choose Remove from room. They are disconnected at once and cannot rejoin that room, even under a different name.

Finishing, and coming back

When the last piece goes in, the clock stops at the final time and the room closes. People inside can stay for a couple of minutes, then the page returns to the Jigsaw menu. Signed-in players find the finished puzzle in the gallery on their profile, with the exact time, the number of pieces, the size, the mode and the date. Guests are shown a reminder that signing in keeps finished puzzles.