Sync Puzzle

Guide

How to play

Sync Puzzle plays like a jigsaw on a real table: no grid of slots to fill, just pieces that fit each other. Here is every control, every helper and every way to play — and a few habits that make a thousand pieces feel easy.

The basics

  1. Pick a puzzle. Follow the road on the World map to the next level, or choose any picture — including one of your own photos — and a size.
  2. Drag a piece next to the piece it fits. When the edges match, they snap together and become one group. That works anywhere on the table: build a corner off to the side, a strip of sky somewhere else, and join them later.
  3. Move groups as one. Drag any piece of a group and the whole thing follows, perfectly interlocked. Drop a group close to where it belongs in the picture and it settles into place.
  4. Finish it. When every piece is joined, the puzzle is solved — wherever on the table it happens to be. You earn points, and the first time you finish a picture, a gem.

The clock only ever counts up. Nothing in Sync Puzzle is a countdown, so take as long as you like — leave mid-puzzle and it is saved exactly where you stopped.

Moving around the table

  • Pinch to zoom in and out.
  • Drag the empty table to move around it.
  • Double-tap an empty spot to zoom in; double-tap again to zoom back out.
  • Carry a piece to the edge of the screen and the view follows it.
  • Center the board brings the whole puzzle back into view.
  • Tap the empty table to tuck the buttons out of the way.
  • The ? button opens a guided tour of every control, any time.

Pause shows Resume, Settings, Restart and Quit to Home. You can also turn the screen to landscape for wide pictures.

Peek at a piece, preview the picture

Hold a loose piece still for half a second and it flips over to show where it belongs — a grid stamp like C4, and whether it is a corner, an edge or a middle piece. Its section lights up on the little map at the top. Let go and it drops straight back on the table. Peeking is free.

Hold the picture button to see the photo faintly underneath your pieces, and tap the little map at the top to open the whole picture full size.

Turning pieces

On bigger puzzles, some pieces start out turned. A turned piece won’t join its neighbours until it is the right way up, so select it and tap Rotate piece to give it a quarter turn. The Fix rotation tool straightens your biggest crooked group in one go.

Hints and tools

Every board tool is paid for with points, which you earn by solving — never with gems.

ToolWhat it doesCost
Picture previewShows the photo faintly under your pieces while you hold it.Free
Section hintsOn puzzles of 200 pieces or more, lays a lettered, numbered grid over the board, and tells you which section a piece goes in when you pick it up.Points, once per puzzle
SpotlightMakes the next piece worth grabbing pulse, so you know where to look.Points, per use
Auto-placeFlies one piece home and joins it for you.Points, per use
Fix rotationStraightens your biggest turned group, on puzzles where pieces can turn.Points, per use

Short on points for a section hint? The game can offer a short optional ad that unlocks it for free. Some Puzzle Pals also give you a free hint, Spotlight or Auto-place every day.

Eight piece counts

Every picture can be cut at any of eight sizes. The exact grid follows the photo’s shape, so a wide picture gets wide rows.

  • Tiny6 pieces
  • Little12 pieces
  • Easy24 pieces
  • Medium54 pieces
  • Hard96 pieces
  • Advanced200 pieces
  • Master400 pieces
  • Expertabout 1000

The biggest sizes need a fast phone to stay smooth, so the game only unlocks the sizes your device handles well. World levels come with their own size, which grows as the map goes on.

Ways to play

  • The world map Five worlds, twenty levels each in two chapters. Finish a world’s first chapter to open the next world, and earn up to three stars a level for a quick solve. See the worlds
  • Your own photos Tap Photo on the puzzle list and any picture on your phone becomes a puzzle, at any size.
  • Play together Host a room, share the code, and solve one board with a friend in real time. How co-op works
  • Puzzle Pals Collect eighteen companions with gems. The one you equip brings a real perk to every puzzle. Meet the Pals
  • Streaks and goals Solve something each day to grow your streak, aim for five puzzles a week, and unlock 23 achievements along the way.

Tips for big puzzles

  • Edges first, the easy way Hold a piece to peek: the label tells you if it is a corner or an edge, so you can sort the frame without guessing.
  • Build islands Pieces join anywhere, so assemble the obvious bits — a face, a sign, a patch of sky — off to the side and bring them in whole.
  • Zoom out to sort, in to fit Pinch out to see everything at once, then zoom right in for the final tricky pieces.
  • Use the little map The thumbnail at the top is the whole picture. Tap it whenever you lose track of what a corner should look like.
  • Turn on section hints at 200+ On the biggest boards, the lettered grid turns “somewhere in the sky” into “section D2”.
  • Go clean for a bonus Equip Rollo and finish without hints, Spotlight, Auto-place or peeks for bonus Friendship.

Ready for your first piece?

Free on Google Play. Kip will show you the rest.

Get it on Google Play Coming soon to the App Store