How long does a 200-piece jigsaw puzzle take?

Par here is about 41 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 200-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.

200-Piece Jigsaw Puzzles

At two hundred pieces sorting starts to matter: on about four pictures in five, colour alone no longer tells pieces apart. The piece finder filters by corners, edges and colour, and piles let you sort pieces into groups as you go.

Par at this size is about 41 minutes. Once a picture is cut into 200 pieces, about 8 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 200 pieces

Two hundred pieces suits someone who has finished a few smaller boards and wants the next step up. It is the largest size the daily puzzle is ever cut at.

Cut 10 rows by 20 columns, the pieces are narrow, and only 56 of the 200 sit on the edge. Nine sections cover the board, three across and three down. This is the size where colour stops being a shortcut on every picture: none of the 53 has fewer than 4 pieces in 10 with a near-twin. Par allows about 12 seconds a piece.

Piles become useful at this size. File pieces into one pile per region as you meet them, sky in one and water in another, then work a single pile at a time with the finder showing only that pile. Build chunks on the open table too: neighbours lock to each other anywhere, and dropping a finished chunk into the frame places all of its pieces in one move.

Questions people ask

How long does a 200-piece jigsaw puzzle take?: Par here is about 41 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 200-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.