I use Jigidi for giveaways fairly regularly, it has been suggested to me in my most recent post that Jigidi is not a good site for jigsaw puzzles.
Personally, I am fine with Jigidi, I solve other people's puzzles to enter GAs on it fairy often and do not dislike the website.

I'd like to hear everyone else's opinion, democracy still works in some circles :)

If you are not a fan of Jigidi but still like jigsaws online, feel free to let us know which websites are superior

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Depends, on the size, colors. If it's 300 pieces all one color, i usually skip, even if it has a giveaway to Cyberpunk.

Who suggested jigidi is not good for jigsaw? Seems nonsense.

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300+ one colour is needlessly difficult, but it's not a reflection on Jigi, it is the image choice/puzzle breakdown.

It was suggested that jigsaw planet is better. I don't think it's non sense, they could be right, so I'm trying to see how people feel, maybe most people like other sites - I do not know yet.

I use jigi a lot, and it does have some limitations. For instance, I can't just grab a whole bunch of pieces and move them to a side or other, I have to move pieces 1 by 1 at all times.

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Oh it's about sites, not jigidi's itself as that is your poll.
I didn't even know there were other sites, and you don't mention that in op.
Noone ever used anytthing other then jigidi as far as i know here.

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jigidi is the name of that site we use, the puzzles are called jigsaw puzzles possibly because a jigsaw was used in the creation of those puzzles in the past

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I'd say colorful ones are worse. :)

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Hi my green friend, I'm totally surprised that someone didn't like jigidi.com. Seriously, what's wrong with it?
I can understand if someone doesn't like jigsaw puzzles in general and I'm a bit tired of them too, as I don't have much time for them left right now and therefore I prefer to spend it on playing games instead of solving puzzles.

Jigidi.com is just wonderful and I can't think of any reasons why people would dislike the website.

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Some people do not hate jigsaws but like other websites more than jigidi for those puzzles

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Yeah sure, I got it but wasn't even aware of other jigsaw sites and couldn't imagine why anyone would dislike jigidi.com.
It's good to discuss alternatives but jigidi.com is SG's traditional jigsaw site and I would stick with it regardless of alternatives. It's cheat proof and pleasant to use.

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I guess, Jigidi is fine. Haven't used it for ages because I'm not a fan of this kind of puzzles, it's way too time-consuming and monotonous. (says a person who sinks her time into Coloring Game)

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I understand, I never have enough time to do everything I want to do lol

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For me Jigidi is fine except for not being able to move more than one piece at a time, it makes things unnecessarily tedious. I didn't know about Jigsaw Planet but I tried it just now and it seems it allows for doing that, so I like it better.

As long as the puzzle is not too big I don't mind making an effort with Jigidi, but for very large puzzles it's just not fun. Still, I guess a very tiring puzzle could be a way to filter people so that only those who really really want a chance to win the game will enter.

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Did you try any puzzles on J Planet? I haven't solved any of them there yet, so I haven't decided yet.

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I solved a random 70-piece one that was on the front page. I think it took slightly less time than it would have on Jigidi. (Just want to make it clear that I don't dislike Jigidi at all, I just think it could be improved)

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I understood that :)
I also agree jigidi can be improved

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Ohhhg got. It's my fault I guess. I mean this topic :o
I don't know if jigsaw planet allow making link-rewarded puzzles, so it can be useless for giveaways but just for fun it's great.
There is also arrange / disarrange option which saves a lot of time so you can focus on solving puzzle :)

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"For me Jigidi is fine except for not being able to move more than one piece at a time, it makes things unnecessarily tedious. I didn't know about Jigsaw Planet but I tried it just now and it seems it allows for doing that, so I like it better."
This and the fact that all the pieces are piled rather than spread out are the two things I dislike about jigidi, I spend as much time just being able to see the pieces as I do actually solving the puzzles,

I've never used other puzzle sites to know if any are better, though.

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This +1
i too spend like half the time only arranging and spreading out the pieces so i can see them all (while also sorting out the edges) before i actually start puzzling

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I hadn't heard of Jigsaw Planet. Just checked. It's good, but I couldn't see a way to display a message/link once a jigsaw is complete. If there is a way to do that, it would be a nice alternative to Jigidi.

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I will test that out. I have not posted any puzzles there, I too only found out about this site today.
My not having heard of Jigsaw Planet before made me think there are probably even more websites I do not know about.
Maybe there are websites much better than anything I've used so far! This discussion is up to hopefully find out

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It's the only site I have used for jigsaw puzzles and I haven't had any problems with it. I like that I can save my progress and come back later, go full screen, change background to a dark color to save eyes, and turn sounds off. Seems like a good site to me.

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i dislike puzzles in general. if people want to make a giveaway for a $1 bundle, just drop it in public or a normal thread (working extra for some cheap games makes no sense).
but i think the site works fine.

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I don't have a problem with $1 bundle games in Jigidi GAs, simply because I enjoy jigsaws, and solving them is not "work" for me. Well, at least, when the pictures are well chosen, as practically always is the case with those published by GreenTomator and DrTenma.

Unfortunately, some other folks quite often publish Jigidi GAs with puzzles, that are just not too enjoyable to solve. Most of those folks probably don't solve jigsaws too often (or just work on them, instead of enjoying them), and have no idea, what makes a puzzle great, and what makes it boring.

I would love Jigidi to have a very simple rule: before publishing a puzzle, you need to solve it ;)

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I don't know any other web jigsaw sites, so I can only compare it to F2P Pixel Puzzles Ultimate, that I play regularly (88h clocked so far on Steam).

Even though PPU is much more sophisticated (option to rotate pieces, uneven cut, additional microgames inside some puzzles), Jigidi also has at least 1 advantage over it (possibility to assemble parts of the puzzle out of the main board). PPU works almost flawlessly, but lately Jigidi was finally able to polish up it's HTML-5 version, so also no complains here.

On my 21.5" Benq GW2265 solving up to 150-180 pieces or so I find both of them equally enjoyable. With more pieces I'm running into the issue with managing the unplaced tiles, when using Jigidi. 250 piece jigsaws are still OK with me on Jigidi, but I would certainly prefer to solve those in PPU. 600-1400 piece puzzles, that I often enjoy in PPU, I would not even try to solve with Jigidi. Probably 300 pieces is the highest acceptable for me limit for Jigidi.

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I simply "zoom" out for the higher number of piece puzzles... but yes, it can take a bit of juggling space-wise especially if a puzzle has many of one type/color pieces.

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Once I'm close to having the borders complete, I zoom out as well, as much as needed, to see the whole puzzle, and all waiting pieces. This however makes pieces much smaller, which for some reason is much more annoying for me on Jigidi, than having them small from the beginning in PPU. Different mechanics, different impressions, I guess.

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I love it!

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Yes, but IRL jigsaws are not "correctly" oriented the way that Jigidi puzzles are. Not that I am complaining - I love Jigidi :-)

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I think Jigidi is the best site to share your puzzles, i just did a quick test to other sites and all they feel quite inferior.

  1. None of the sites showed the personal messagge or link at the end.
  2. Several sites let the user change the number of pieces to solve it.
  3. all other sites have canvas size fixed, vs the free flow of Jigidi canvas and zoom option.
  4. The only advantage i found, in Jigsawplanet, select and move batches, but the experience wasn't as smooth as i wanted anyway as the page feels cluttered.
    Sites tested: Jigsawexplorer, Jigsawplanet, Jigzone, Justjigsawpuzzles, Shockwave, Thejigsawpuzzles, Puzzlehouse, Jspuzzles.
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Their HTML5 version is still buggy. It regularly fails to pop up the message, and refreshing shows an incomplete puzzle - sometimes with a few pieces out of place, sometimes a lot more. I did one puzzle recently that took me 3 attempts - it was a small puzzle either, but I really wanted to enter the GA!

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It have never failed to me since they push the update, but in any case you can reopen the finished puzzle and it will show the message.

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Except it doesn't.
Do you mean revisit a completed puzzle and choose "Solve puzzle" again, and you should be given the puzzle and the pop-up? None here.

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Yes revisit it, but just click on the image, not the solve button. I just did it again and works perfectlly, it shows you the solved puzzle window with message and leaderboard ;)

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Thanks for the help, I tried again and paid a little more attention to the dialog. It's a warning about being the 'legacy non-flash solver' - not noticed that before. So I switched to the new HTML5 solver - and hey presto got the pop-up - once! Tried again, and no luck, but now I get to use the right solver.

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GA + entertainment?
Why the hell wouldn't I like it?!?!?

Keep them coming dude, you're awesome

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For me Jigidi is better because you can zoom in and zoom out puzzles. In Jigsaw Planet I couldn't find that option.

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I'm damn fine with Jigidi overall, though sometimes it loads a weird version (where the jigsaw symbol appears and a round progress bar) and that one has problems with the zoom, which makes it annoying and forces me to try again. Beyond that, it's good, I could surely complain about pieces being in a pile and such like other do but that's not really the biggest deal. I'm a creature of habit, so moving to another website would be more of a problem than a solution to me.

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Compared to Jigsaws Galore, everything is inferior. But as far as jigsaw websites go for SteamGift purposes, I think Jigidi is perfect. There might be better jigsaw sites, but not fitting for what you'd need to do a puzzle for a GA link.

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I enjoy Jigidi - and have used other sites in the past which I didn't enjoy nearly as much. There are a few people that regularly post new puzzles that I follow and solve. Other sites seemed to have a lot fewer "categories" of pix and I quickly became bored.

As to the HTML5, I rarely use it and instead prefer to use IE with Flash enabled (don't shoot me - I also use Chrome and Firefox!).

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I'm fine with Jigidi. I have no issues with it so far. :)

As for the pieces starting in a pile and having to separate them, I feel like that is exactly how it is when you start a jigsaw puzzle out of the box!

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Jigidi is awesome!
The only thing I'd change about it is I'd make it possible to move pieces more than one at a time. That would definitely cut into the time it takes to prep for puzzle but this is just me and I love it the way it is.

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they used to have a pause button, and i liked that when racing other people's time, but i do like the site!

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I used jigdi a lot when i first began giveaways (especially outside steamgifts), but i do not find the time anymore to complete them, especially with the possibility of already owning whatever's inside. I appreciate all the jigdi creators who mention the contents.

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I think the Jigidi website is just fine. Does its job and it's simple enough to use, that's all I want from a website :)

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The only thing bothering me with jigidi is the fact you cannot select an area where there are some pieces you organized to move them if you're in need of space. It wasn't an option with flash and I'm unsure there is a way to give your opinion up there, but it frustrates me to no end when I need to move pieces one by one if it happens that there are much more than expected and I need to spread more for space. A tool to select and move would be honestly the best thing to get on the platform because you can't always be right on what will take the most space, especially when you're doing a mono color jigsaw and organize your pieces by form and not by color / area you believe they would be.

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Its fun , doing jigidis is relaxing at least for me

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