Wilmot Works It Out is the best parts of jigsaw puzzles, but faster and cleaner

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...

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