If you like jigsaw puzzles and are isolated or stuck at home due to =
coronavirus and looking for things to do, try the Palapeli port, which =
is part of KDE Games 4.

Advantages are:

- You can cut your own puzzles from your own photos, etc.
- You can choose the number of pieces and the general shape, using any =
of several =E2=80=9Cslicer=E2=80=9D modules.
- When playing, the game saves its state to disk every two seconds.
- It can handle puzzles up to 10,000 pieces in size, providing =
=E2=80=9Cholder=E2=80=9D windows for subsets of pieces, such as Sky, =
Edges, etc.
- The manual is comprehensive and is online at =
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kdegames/palapeli/index.html or google =
kde docs palapeli.
- An optional Preview window lets you see all or part of the completed =
puzzle.
- The game is in good working order, except for occasional crashes with =
minor impact (see below).
- You get a starter library of five easy puzzles and can add your own =
puzzles to it.

Disadvantages are:

- Palapeli takes a while to install under MacPorts, because it has a =
huge chain of dependencies via qt4-mac and kdelibs4, but you can break =
up the load by installing those two ports first from the binaries.
- Pieces are not rotated when the puzzle is shuffled.
- The functionality of the game has not changed for a few years: I was =
the last maintainer, but am retired from FOSS development now.
- Crashes can occur when you move and join pieces rapidly: I was never =
able to find why, but the autosave feature (see above) ensures that you =
do not lose hours of work.
- If you have a Linux system, Palapeli is available in a maintained KF5 =
version, but I don=E2=80=99t think there are many bug fixes or new =
features.

=E2=80=9CPalapeli" is a German word with a meaning something like =
=E2=80=9Cpell-mell=E2=80=9D in English.

Enjoy,
Ian Wadham.=