Worlds Rivers Jigsaw

Rivers make good puzzle subjects. Worlds Rivers Jigsaw builds a whole collection around them, offering pictures on the theme of the world’s rivers and asking you to put each one back together. Water, banks and sky give a scene clear bands of colour, and a river that winds across a picture is a natural guide for joining pieces.

The structure is straightforward. Each picture has three modes, easy, medium and hard, so you can pick the effort you want for that image. Nothing is timed. The game says so directly, and the point is a leisurely experience: you can leave a half-finished board, think, and come back to it.

For anyone interested in geography, the theme adds a layer to a quiet hobby. The world’s great rivers, from the Nile and the Amazon to the Danube and the Mississippi, have shaped where cities grew and how people travelled. Whatever views are in the set, working through them is a calm way to keep your brain busy.

1. Select a river picture.
2. Choose easy, medium or hard.
3. Follow the line of the water to join the pieces.
4. Finish each picture in your own time.

Build the river first. A strip of water running through the image is the easiest feature to follow, and the banks fall into place around it.