# Jigsaw Haiku

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Jigsaw Haiku and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Fun, tactile browser jigsaw that people find smooth and challenging; critics report choppy dragging and broken mobile Firefox support.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun and tactile to solve (4 comments): "Very fun and great "tactile" experience." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604575)) "Somewhat challenging and lots of fun." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619601)) "Nice, fun and poetic! GG I <3 it!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603866))
- Challenging puzzle (2 comments): "Somewhat challenging and lots of fun." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619601)) "I found this very challenging." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604553))
- Smooth animations and piece placement (2 comments): "I love how smooth the animations are when placing jigsaw block." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609906)) "it works smoothly in everything except firefox mobile" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605097))

## What people warn about

- Broken in mobile Firefox (2 comments): "It works well in mobile chrome or any desktop browser but mobile firefox specifically has been an issue" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605026)) "Doesn't work well in android Firefox for me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604400))
- Choppy dragging and low frame rate (2 comments): "dragging is still so choppy that it makes the game significantly less fun" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604743)) "did the frame rate of dragging have to be so painfully low?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604570))
- Piece borders hide edge details (2 comments): "The borders on the pieces obscure the edge details that you need to help match the pieces up." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603787)) "the unplaced pieces had a border which made it impossible to see which might" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603832))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Outer Wilds](https://hackerapproved.com/p/outer-wilds.md): 65 recommend
- [enclose.horse](https://hackerapproved.com/p/enclose-horse.md): 64 recommend
- [The Witness](https://hackerapproved.com/p/witness.md): 60 recommend
- [Braid](https://hackerapproved.com/p/braid.md): 36 recommend
- [Blue Prince](https://hackerapproved.com/p/blue-prince.md): 30 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Jigsaw Haiku", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jigsaw-haiku/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).