Tiny Plots: Diorama Puzzle

A jigsaw, except the picture is a place and it moves when you finish it. Each level of Tiny Plots is a small 3D diorama — a garden, a castle, a city corner — cut into square tiles and shuffled. Drag the tiles back where they belong until the paths join up and the scene fits together again.

The mechanic that makes it sing is the snap. Tiles that land side by side the way they belong stick together, so a finished section can be picked up and moved as one block — the puzzle gradually stops being forty loose squares and becomes a few neighborhoods looking for their borders. You can spin and zoom the board with your fingers to inspect every corner.

And the reward for the last tile is life: completed scenes animate — falling leaves, working fountains, rising steam, little animations everywhere. Content runs to 246 levels across 20 themed worlds, from a cozy garden and a castle above its moat to a winter village, a space station, and Venice, Paris and New York in miniature.

It's brand new and tiny — 1K+ downloads, though a promising 4.5 rating — and refreshingly concrete about its contents, right down to the level count. Puzzle players who like their jigsaws dimensional, and their victories animated, have 246 small worlds waiting to be reassembled.