Strange Jigsaws: All Jigsaws Guide

This is a guide for all the jigsaws (And well, some of them are strange)

 

Start the game

Hit “Play” and “New Game”

First layer of this game is split into three paths (Getting three golden jigsaws)

The three paths are:

  • Computer puzzle
  • Fire puzzle
  • Circle (Time) puzzle

Order of completion doesn’t matter, however the Fire and Time puzzles only spawn after completing Magnet and Anvil puzzles (I will start this guide with those)

FIRST LAYER

Your goal (and your win condition) is opening the door, all following sections are needed to progress, have fun!

Solving the Magnet puzzle

This puzzle features the mechanic of Magnets (Pieces can only be fit with the pieces of opposing charges, as seen in the picture)

You can effortlessly fill in empty spaces with pieces (Some will require rotating them!)

Solving this puzzle activates the magnet, which attracts pieces of the anvil (our next target)

Putting the anvil together

After solving the magnet, six pieces of anvil will spawn and you will have to put them together


This can easily be done, as they have some text on them which helps with orienting these pieces

The last thing to do with this anvil is to place it over the ice. The ice will break and spawn the next two puzzles, splitting the progression in paths

First Golden puzzle piece

The following sections explain how to get the First Golden puzzle piece.

Starting up the Computer

1. Grab the yellow jigsaw that looks like a face and put it in the receiver with the square icon

2. Grab the long yellow jigsaw and put it in the receiver with the circle icon

3. Grab the tiny yellow jigsaw and put it in the receiver with the star icon

4. Grab the last yellow jigsaw and put it in the receiver of the computer

Congrats, you turned on the computer!

Desktop puzzles

Most creative ones imo

Click on the now powered computer to enter the screen with several puzzles


I’ll break up the puzzles into six guide sections

[[Impossible Lock]]

So, in this puzzle you’re supposed to…

hey why are these pieces not moving?…
FLEB!!!

After failing to do literally anything, FLEB himself comes by to help. He unlocks the bottom of the puzzle and leaves you to find a solution.

To find a solution, you have to align the notches on a key with letters in the lock (solution is STUCK)

After one hotfix, FLEB sends you another version of this puzzle

However, you can still only move a key and….

what.

It still has a lot of bugs and we have to find an answer to a broken puzzle (which is FORCE)

After this, the final(FINAL (final version)) puzzle is presented

…Which is still broken…

Slide the Notchless Key into the lock and find that the key parts are stuck at the bottom of the puzzle.
The puzzle is still possible so you have to align the nothces on the key parts and put them in the lock to find out the combination (which is MERGE)

And there you go, Impossible lock is solved! (somehow) (barely playable)

Onto the next puzzle.

[[Hamburger Maestro]]

This puzzle features puzzle pieces with food on them and a set of rules to follow while putting the hamburger together

The solution is fairly simple:

  • lettuce
  • patty
  • tomato

Next customer won’t go easy on you, their order consists of four ingridients and four rules to follow.

While tougher, their order is still manageable, with their request being:

  • patty
  • tomato
  • lettuce
  • cheese

And then Mr. Gluttony himself comes around because holy crap what is that order

This absolute beast of a customer comes in demanding seven ingredient hamburger with nine rules to follow.

Following every single rule, their order is:

  • onion
  • tomato
  • cheese
  • bacon
  • lettuce
  • pineapple
  • patty

Now that every customer is satisfied, onto the next puzzle.

[[Jigsaw Mountain]]

In this puzzle you’re supposed to recolor, rotate and fill in the empty places of the Jigsaw Mountain painting


This is among the simpler puzzles, but i like it’s creativity

Your supposed order of operations is:

  1. Find a space where a piece of your choice fits
  2. Rotate it around until outlines match
  3. Check needed colors
  4. Recolor as needed
  5. Place it where you need

So, first piece is this:

Second one is this:

Third one is this:

And the fourth one is this:

Put the painting together like this:

Now that you’ve practically built a ship of Theseus, we can move onto the next puzzle.

[[CAPTCHALLENGE]]

In this puzzle…. I mean, captcha, you have to prove that you’re not a robot by filling a pattern or meeting other requirements

In the first Captcha, you have to rotate the puzzle piece twice, and only then place it in the empty spot.

In the second Captcha, you have to place the given puzzle piece off-grid (not in the blank space), right of the blank space.

In the third Captcha, you have to grab and hold the big piece, rotate it twice, and place it back into the grid.

In the fourth Captcha, you have to place the puzzle piece in the place of the missing number four.

In the fifth Captcha, you have to locate the off-looking patch on one of the berries, rotate your puzzle piece once and place it there.

In the sixth Captcha, you have to fill the Intentionally-Left-Blank space with a yellow puzzle piece with an arrow pointing at it.

Now that you’ve proven that you’re not a robot (probably) (highly unlikely), you can move on to the next puzzle.

[[RYB 3]]

In this puzzle… Hey, where have I seen this before…?

Oh, right. Right here.

This, too, is a game from FLEB, so go play it. (It’s also free!)

So, in this puzzle some clues are given and you have to align shapes, check colors and fulfill the given clues (Have you read the rules, duh?)

I will only give the solution for these.

First puzzle:

Second puzzle:

Third puzzle:

Fourth puzzle:

Fifth puzzle:

After this, the SJ Windows Utility will be activated, that’s the next step.

SJ Windows Utility

This is the last step to getting your first Golden puzzle piece.

You are presented with a World Map, where the Game Space, Main Menu, Settings and Save Files are stored.

You have to rearrange and set these spaces to create a path to the golden jigsaw, the arrows on the spaces show their path.

The path you need is this:

When set, go back to the desktop and press:

  • Settings
  • Back to Main Menu
  • Venture into the Unknown
  • Back to Main Menu

Collect the piece.

Second Golden puzzle piece

The following sections explain how to get the Second Golden puzzle piece.

Circle puzzle, Time puzzle

Circle puzzle
After breaking the block of ice with an anvil, four black jigsaws spawn in its place

You have to put them together in a circle, connect them by their sides and put them aroun the Intentionally-Left-Blank space

After this a message spawns and the next puzzle is presented

Time puzzle

In this puzzle, you have to unlock the time machine with the code

To get the code you have to rotate the triangular puzzle pieces and look for complete symbols with numbers underneath them, The shapes on the time machine are the order in which you have to enter the numbers.
(code is 793)


Place the newly acquired puzzle piece in the Intentionally-Left-Blank space

Recursion puzzle

After adding a battery into the Intentionally-Left-Blank space you are presented to the Zoom/Recursion puzzle

Zoom into the first layer of recursion and add the presented piece into the Intentionally-Left-Blank space

Zoom into the second layer and put the time machine together

Add Battery storage into the new Intentionally-Left-Blank space

While still in second layer, rotate the battery storage until you can’t

Go into the fourth layer (L3 got solved by rotating battery storage) and search for a four-leaf clover to put it into the Intentionally-Left-Blank space

It’s in the bottom-left corner, under the others

In the Last ? layer, hold onto a piece and zoom inwards

You can now loop around all layers, but all you need to do is hold the battery and zoom outward

And there you go! You have now collected the second golden puzzle piece!

Third Golden puzzle piece

The following sections explain how to get the Third (and Last?) Golden puzzle piece.

Fire puzzle

Breaking the ice spawns two next puzzles, one of which is on fire

This is the first tricky puzzle, because when you try to solve it, there is always one fire left and no extra ice is given

Except there is extra ice, it’s in the description of the puzzle, and you can pick it up
However the fire in the description is also real and you have to put it out too

After putting out the fire in this puzzle, a button with a golden puzzle spawns in its place

Equipment puzzles

Screwdriver puzzle
Pressing on the golden piece button sends you to another screen with its own set of puzzles.
On that screen you have an inventory and a rotatable cube
(rotate by pressing the arrows on the side of that cube)

After exploring this cube, pick up the screwdriver in one of the rooms,
it will go in your inventory and can be accessed by left-clicking it

With that screwdriver you can unscrew the electric box in that same room.

When you do so, turn on the power and the puzzle will appear in on of ‘locked’ squares

Go into the puzzle and put the jigsaws in the shape of a screwdriver

Collect your new piece of equipment (rope) and head towards the next puzzle

Rope puzzle
This puzzle tests your spatial thinking, because you can’t move these pieces, only connect them

Here is the solution and a drawing i made for this puzzle

Your next piece of equipment is a ‘Heavier anvil’, pick it up (wow you’re strong!) and head to the next puzzle

With these three pieces of equipment you can now:

  1. Unscrew “Lower Pulley”
  2. Throw the rope over the pivot point
  3. Add Heavier anvil to the other end of the rope

This button breaks the cube into four pieces which can be rotated and put together

In this room you have to break the cube, rotate and shift the pieces like shown

You have to get a Padlock icon, like this

Write ‘TURN’ in the padlock and collect your last piece of equipment, a key.

Go downwards and reassemble the room in normal way

Take a break, blow off some steam and break all the jigsaws

Next you have to go back, break the room and align pieces like this to go up:

Once you’ve reassembled the ceiling, unlock the last door with a key

Hooray. you have opened the door and won!

but

There’s more

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