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There’s been no shortage of jigsaw picture puzzle games available in the App Store. It seems like every day one is released, and they range from really amateur and horrible to professional and polished. Skizzle easily falls under the professional and polished category. In Skizzle, you can use any picture in your Photo Library, you can take one anytime and turn it into a jigsaw puzzle, or you can go online and search for any picture in Google Images (within the game, so you never exit Skizzle.)
Unfortunately, only the first 20 results will show up in a Google Images search within Skizzle. While I understand only loading up 20 keeps the download time from being too long, paginating the results will allow you to choose more than just the first 20 results of any search term.
On top of going online with Google Images, you can share your picture puzzles with anyone (provided they have an iPhone/iPod Touch and Skizzle), and they can also send you their favorite picture puzzle to solve. With any shared images, you have to solve the puzzle first before you get to see what the picture is.
There are three difficulty settings that can be chosen for each puzzle type; Easy, Medium, and Hard. On Easy, the picture is broken up in big pieces, and the harder difficulty modes will break them up into smaller pieces. There’s also the ability to select from two different control methods; EZ-Drag mode and Push mode. EZ-Drag will swap the piece you’re moving with the piece it replaces. Push mode will move every piece you displace, by pushing them aside. Push mode adds an extra level of challenge, but I tend to prefer the more intuitive EZ-Drag, personally.
While trying to solve a puzzle, you have the option to share that picture, view the original in case you get stumped, save the current picture to your photo library so you can play it again anytime, and change the difficulty. A timer will also track the time you’ve spent so far on the puzzle.
Visually the game looks good and plays smooth. There are some UI elements that don’t fit, such as the Settings screen. It just looks tacky. It’s a minor complaint, and since there’s not much to complain about with Skizzle, a little thing like that stands out. Sound effects are very sparse, and what little there is, it’s mostly quiet, so you don’t have to worry about disturbing people nearby while playing. There’s no music, but you can play your own music library when starting up the game.
Skizzle is a fantastic game that has a lot of replayability due to the fact that you can use Google Images to solve any picture, and there are easily millions upon millions available by Google Images. The ability to share and receive puzzles is a nice touch that sets this picture puzzle game apart from the multitude of others. The level of features, difficulty modes, two interaction modes, all makes Skizzle the best picture puzzle game you can buy. I never considered myself a picture puzzle kind of gamer, but Skizzle has changed my mind and I’ve been hooked since the day I bought the game.
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