I
used
to
hate
jigsaw
puzzles.
I
thought
they
were
frustrating,
messy,
and
took
way
too
long
to
solve.
But
my
wife
showed
me
how
those
parts
of
jigsaw
puzzles
can
actually
be
fun:
there’s
something
satisfying
and
meditative
about
working
through
those
frustrations,
sorting
through
the
mess,
and
putting
a
picture
together,
one
piece
at
a
time,
over
the
course
of
a
few
hours.
(Or
days.)
The
makers
of
Wilmot
Works
It
Out,
a
new
puzzle
game,
understand
this,
and
everything
about
the
game
is
designed
to
make
solving
puzzles
fun
instead
of
annoying.
In
the
game,
you
play
as
Wilmot,
an
adorable
white
square
with
a
face
who
has
a
puzzle-by-mail
subscription.
(He’s
the
same
smiley
square
from
Wilmot’s
Warehouse,
a
2019
puzzle
game
also
made
by
developers
Hollow
Ponds
and
Richard
Hogg
and
published
by
Finji.)
Every
time
you
open
a
new
package
delivered
by
Sam,
your
mail
carrier
friend,
the
pieces
appear
in
a
jumble
on
the
floor
so
you
can
match
them
together
into
a
picture
to
put
on
the
wall.
When
you’ve
put
up
a
completed
puzzle,
Sam
typically
comes
knocking
with
a
brief
conversation
and
a
new
box
of
pieces
to
sift
through.
After
you
finish
a
bunch
of
puzzles,
you’ll
complete
a
“season”
and
can
move
on
to
the
next,
which
amps
up
the
difficulty.
It’s
fun
to
sift
through
the
pieces
scattered
about.Image:
Finji
Wilmot
Works
It
Out
has
a
few
clever
ways
to
iron
out
the
process
of
putting
pieces
together.
Unlike
every
jigsaw
puzzle
I’ve
done
in
real
life,
the
puzzle
pieces
in
Wilmot
are
all
square.
That
sounds
annoying,
but
because
you
don’t
have
to
rotate
the
pieces
to
match
them,
it’s
much
easier
to
compare
pieces
side
to
side
to
see
if
they
might
fit
together.
When
you
slide
a
piece
next
to
its
correct
counterpart,
the
piece
you’re
holding
flashes
once,
and
you’ll
hear
a
soft
but
satisfying
chime.
I
loved
chasing
those
chimes.
Those
design
choices
make
it
much
easier
to
quickly
assemble
puzzles.
But
the
game’s
best
trick
is
that
puzzle
packages
typically
contain
a
few
pieces
that
connect
to
a
puzzle
you
can’t
finish
yet.
Because
of
that,
you’re
constantly
trying
to
figure
out
which
pieces
fit
a
puzzle
you
can
solve
now
and
which
pieces
are
supposed
to
be
set
aside
for
later.
Some
puzzles
are
quite
tricky
In
the
early
seasons,
I
didn’t
find
this
to
be
too
difficult.
That
changed
in
the
later
seasons,
though,
as
the
developers
have
some
devilish
tricks
to
make
you
really
work
to
figure
out
which
pieces
belong
with
which
puzzles.
One
season,
for
example,
featured
pieces
that
seemed
to
assemble
into
a
peacock
with
big
colorful
circles
on
its
feathers.
Then,
I
started
matching
pieces
with
more
colorful
circles,
but
they
turned
out
to
be
owl
eyes.
I
tried
to
find
a
way
for
the
owls
and
peacock
to
connect
for
longer
than
I
care
to
admit
—
until
I
eventually
realized
that
they
were
two
separate
pictures.
Two
of
my
biggest
problems
with
jigsaw
puzzles
have
been
how
long
they
take
and
how
messy
they
are.
They
can
take
what
should
be
a
fun
activity
and
turn
it
into
a
chore.
But
Wilmot
Works
It
Out
fixes
both,
highlighting
what
I
love
about
jigsaw
puzzles
in
a
delightful
video
game.
Wilmot
Works
It
Out
is
out
now
on
PC
and
Mac.
(Originally posted by Jay Peters)
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