How long does a 100-piece jigsaw puzzle take?

Par here is about 17 minutes: the time your score is measured against at this size. The pictures at the top of the list above sort by colour and go faster; the ones at the bottom are mostly shape work.

Do I have to finish a 100-piece puzzle in one go?

No. Your board is saved as you play and the clock pauses while you are away, so you can come back to it in another sitting.

100-Piece Jigsaw Puzzles

A hundred pieces is long enough to need a plan, edges first and then colour, and short enough to finish in one sitting.

Par at this size is about 17 minutes. Once a picture is cut into 100 pieces, about 6 in 10 pieces have a near-twin by colour on average, so the pictures below run from the easiest at this size to the hardest.

Playing at 100 pieces

A hundred pieces is the size to pick for a full puzzle in a single sitting on a laptop or a tablet, and the size the theme pages compare pictures at. It is also the middle of the three sizes the daily puzzle uses.

The cut is 10 by 10, so 36 pieces are edges and 64 are middles. This is the smallest size where the middle outnumbers the frame. Six sections, three across and two down, divide the board, and the dots for each show how close it is to done. Par allows about 10 seconds a piece.

Frame first, then sort the middle by colour. Colour still separates most pieces on 3 of the 53 pictures, and on 20 it has already stopped helping, among them Fox in the Snow, Lion Pride and most of the snow scenes in the Christmas set. On those, filter the piece finder to edges only and finish the border before you look at the picture at all.

Questions people ask

How long does a 100-piece jigsaw puzzle take?: Par here is about 17 minutes: the time your score is measured against at this size. The pictures at the top of the list above sort by colour and go faster; the ones at the bottom are mostly shape work.
Do I have to finish a 100-piece puzzle in one go?: No. Your board is saved as you play and the clock pauses while you are away, so you can come back to it in another sitting.