Farm Jigsaw Puzzle 123 Review

Farm Jigsaw Puzzle 123 is a very nice puzzle app for iPad with a cute farm theme. Seven scenes are included that nicely depict life on a farm, such as a lovely night scene with sleeping animals, a fertile vegetable garden, animals enjoying a mud puddle as well as classic barn and tractor choices, among others. Many friendly animals and a few people are included in this app, nicely hand-drawn and complete with fun, upbeat music. A version of Farm Puzzle 123 is also available for iPhone.

Nicely intuitive for children, one simply scrolls through the seven selections, tapping to make a choice. Once a selection is made, tap again on the empty cutouts that need to be filled in. I like that instead of simply filling in the characters with individual "chunky" puzzle pieces, a mini jigsaw puzzle is included for each cutout that relates well to the character from the larger puzzle, and I love that there is a choice of how many puzzle pieces these puzzles have, ranging from two to sixteen. It is also nice that when many pieces are chosen, just a few are offered to the player at a given time so as not to overwhelm the board or the child with too many pieces.

I also appreciate that a hint can be turned on, both allowing the completed puzzle to be seen faintly as well as allowing the pieces to be placed on top for a simplified experience. When this mini jigsaw puzzle is completed, the animal or object is nicely spoken and labeled accordingly as well. I do wish that when a few animals are used in one puzzle - like mice or chickens, the plural of these animals would be used, like “raccoons” or”fireflies” instead of simply raccoon or firefly.

Being an Australian-based app, it is fun that a few animals may be new to some children, as well as some not typically found in most farm applications, making this app unique and educational, including wombats, a platypus and kookaburra, kangaroos, koala bears, possums, and a mole.

My son enjoys this app, choosing the scene he wishes to work on as well as completing these puzzles. I like the ease of use this app has to offer, but I do find the ability to change the number of pieces per jigsaw rather hidden, and I wish the icon used here were a puzzle piece or pieces rather than a sun hiding behind a cloud to represent the different number of puzzle pieces. I do think, however, that it is very nice how within the same scene, the different mini-puzzles can be played with a varied number of puzzle pieces if the player so chooses.

All in all, this is a very nice choice of app for puzzle, farm, or animal lovers. Very content-rich with 45 total mini puzzles and five puzzle piece choices, kids can be kept busy with this delightful app for quite some time while learning the names of some less common animals. This app would also be great for families with kids of different ages as this app can be shared and personalized for different abilities, again making this app stand out among
other puzzle apps available.