26 Jigsaw Puzzles You’ll Happily Spend Hours Piecing Together

Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

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Jigsaw puzzles are a great way to stimulate your mind without having to be glued to a screen. The tiled designs offer hours upon hours of fun as you attempt to fit all of the pieces together. While jigsaw puzzles are a popular activity for children, there’s a growing trend—companies are producing unconventional and creative iterations geared towards adults. These jigsaws challenge our notion of puzzle shapes; and, they push the envelope, when it comes to what we expect in surface design.

Creative studio Nervous System is one of the best when it comes to designing jigsaw puzzles for adults. They take inspiration from the Earth and cosmos to produce games that are especially challenging. The wooden Geode Puzzle, for instance, is made using a computer program that cuts contorted puzzle pieces, making it extra difficult to solve.

If you prefer to stick to the square and rectangular puzzle formats, don't worry—we’ve got you covered. From vintage Vogue covers to colorful crystals, you can work from the edges inward and solve these jigsaws to reveal their beautiful images. Check out more of these puzzles for adults, below.

Stimulate your mind—away from the computer screen—when you solve these 20+ creative jigsaw puzzles for adults.

 

Herding Cats Puzzle

 

Viva La Frida Kahlo Puzzle

Frida Puzzle

eeBoo | $21.99

 

Geode Jigsaw Puzzle

 

Mars Puzzle

 

Elements Puzzle (1,000 pieces)

Best Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

Black Dog & Leventhal | from $14.50

 

Great Wave Puzzle

Great Wave Puzzle

EuroGraphics | $19.95

 

Milky Way Puzzle (1,000 pieces)

 

Skyscraper Sea (1,000 pieces)

Best Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

Bgraamiens | $15.99

 

Frank Lloyd Wright Double Sided Puzzle (500 pieces)

Double Sided Puzzle

Galison | $15.99

 

Nautilus Puzzle

 

Mushrooms (Champignons) (1,000 pieces)

 

Avian Puzzle

Galison Avian Puzzle

Galison | $16.99

 

NASA’s Mars Poster (1,000 pieces)

 

Keith Haring Puzzle (500 pieces)

Keith Haring Puzzle

MoMA | $24.95

 

Climate Activism Round Puzzle (500 pieces)

Round Puzzle for Adults

Petra Braun | $14.99

 

Moon Jigsaw Puzzle (1,000 pieces)

 

3D Color Puzzle (540 pieces)

 

Crystals (1,000 pieces)

Best Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

Cloudberries | $24.39

 

Succulents Jigsaw Puzzle (1,000 pieces)

 

Flower Puzzle (1,000 pieces)

Best Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

Cloudberries | $24.39

 

Ravensburger One Dot at a Time (1,500 pieces)

1500 Piece Puzzle

Ravensburger | $46.77

 

Ammonite Puzzle

 

 Vogue Spot-on Fashion (500 pieces)

 

Fractal Jigsaw Puzzle 

 

Black/White Gradient Puzzle (500 pieces)

Best Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

Areaware | $25

 

Garden of Earthly Delights Puzzle (9,000 pieces)

Art History Puzzle

Educa | $139.99

 

This article has been edited and updated.

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Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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