Arlo the Alligator Boy Jigsaw Puzzle

Arlo the Alligator Boy Jigsaw Puzzle is built from film artwork, which changes what you are working with. A movie frame is a composed scene rather than a portrait, so instead of one big character on a plain field you get a green alligator boy, whoever happens to be around him, and a lot of scenery filling the corners.

That spreads the difficulty out evenly, and it makes the usual edges-first advice less useful than normal. Nothing is timing you and there is no way to lose, so the comfortable method is to pick any spot you can recognise, whether a face, a bright object or a hard line between two colours, place a few pieces around it, and let those small islands grow until they meet.

How to play

Start by choosing which picture to build and how many pieces to break it into, then drag pieces out of the pile and onto the board. Rather than hunting for one specific piece, take whatever is on top and ask where it could go: a piece of sky, a piece of green, a piece with an eye on it. Build several small clusters at once and push them together at the end.

Controls

Click and hold a piece, drag it to where it belongs, then release the button. On phones and tablets, drag with your finger instead. Mouse or touch is all it takes.