Instructions
Postcard Puzzle
A postcard painted in code, cut into jigsaw pieces. Pick a loose piece, find its place on the card, and post the finished picture. The daily card has 48 pieces, the weekly has 96, and a free game can be 24, 48 or 96.
- Year
- 2021
- Era
- Daily Puzzle
- Genre
- Puzzle / Jigsaw
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Click or tap a loose piece, then its place on the card (or drag it across).
- Arrows + Enter pick up and place, X cancels.
- H hint, V peek at the picture, [ and ] flip tray pages, Q end.
- P to pause.
On touch
- Tap a loose piece, then the spot you think it fits, or drag it onto the card.
- Hint, Peek and End sit along the bottom; Back and More turn the tray.
Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.
Maker’s note
Eight postcards, one for each Eracade era, are painted entirely in code: a green vector screen, a neon arcade marquee, a 16-bit sunset, an early-web desktop, a glossy flash scene, a one-tap pillar run, a chunky indie pocket card and a daily-puzzle tile board. The seed picks the card, cuts the jigsaw outlines and shuffles the tray, so everyone gets the same puzzle on the same day. Each right placement is 10 points, a wrong spot costs 3, a hint costs 10 and finishing the card pays a 100 point bonus plus a time bonus. Peek is free, but it does not help your clock. Every placement is stored as a logical move, so the server replays the whole run before it counts, and a log only replays under its own day.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 160
- 2150
- 3250
- 4350
- 5450
- 6540
- 7620
- 8680
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The Daily Puzzle era, 2020–2026
One shared puzzle a day and a result worth passing on, in calm colour with soft, rounded edges.
High scores
The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.
