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Lighthouse Jigsaw Puzzles

Twenty-nine sentinels from six countries and both hemispheres: Portland Head above a gilded sea, Cape Hatteras in its spiral stripes, Neist Point at the end of Skye's knife-edge, the Roman Tower of Hercules, and La Jument taking a Brittany storm full in the chest. Every one a real, named light rendered at its real viewpoint. Free in your browser, 12 to 200 pieces.

Peggy's Cove jigsaw puzzle
Peggy's Cove
Peggy's Point light on its granite shore as the surf catches the sunset.
Portland Head Light jigsaw puzzle
Portland Head Light
Maine's grand old light and keeper's house above a gilded evening sea.
Cape Hatteras Light jigsaw puzzle
Cape Hatteras Light
The spiral-striped sentinel of the Outer Banks under big Carolina clouds.
Nubble Light jigsaw puzzle
Nubble Light
Cape Neddick's island light glowing red and white at blue hour.
Bass Harbor Light jigsaw puzzle
Bass Harbor Light
Acadia's cliff-clinging light above the autumn-gold rocks.
Heceta Head Light jigsaw puzzle
Heceta Head Light
Oregon's most photographed light on its forested headland at sunset.
Yaquina Head jigsaw puzzle
Yaquina Head
The tall white tower over wildflower bluffs and Pacific blue.
Point Reyes jigsaw puzzle
Point Reyes
The long stairway down to the fog-line light on its wave-cut point.
Pigeon Point jigsaw puzzle
Pigeon Point
California's tallest light against a violet-and-rose evening sky.
Split Rock jigsaw puzzle
Split Rock
The clifftop light over Lake Superior, maples burning below.
St. Augustine Light jigsaw puzzle
St. Augustine Light
The black-and-white spiral above the marsh at golden hour.
Bodie Island Light jigsaw puzzle
Bodie Island Light
Horizontal bands mirrored in still marsh water under a rainbow.
Tower of Hercules jigsaw puzzle
Tower of Hercules
The Roman lighthouse of A Coruña — nineteen centuries on watch.
Hook Lighthouse jigsaw puzzle
Hook Lighthouse
Ireland's eight-hundred-year-old striped tower at Wexford sunset.
Fanad Head jigsaw puzzle
Fanad Head
White walls over turquoise Donegal water and flowering heather.
Neist Point jigsaw puzzle
Neist Point
Skye's clifftop light at the end of its knife-edge headland.
Rubjerg Knude jigsaw puzzle
Rubjerg Knude
The lighthouse in the dunes — Denmark's tower adrift in sand.
Lindesnes jigsaw puzzle
Lindesnes
Norway's oldest light under a curtain of aurora.
La Jument jigsaw puzzle
La Jument
The Brittany storm-rider mid-wave, sea exploding at its base.
Fastnet Rock jigsaw puzzle
Fastnet Rock
Ireland's Teardrop alone on its rock in a wide evening sea.
Chania Lighthouse jigsaw puzzle
Chania Lighthouse
The Venetian harbor light of Crete glowing over evening water.
Les Eclaireurs jigsaw puzzle
Les Eclaireurs
The Beagle Channel light at the end of the world, Andes behind.
Cape Byron jigsaw puzzle
Cape Byron
Australia's easternmost light above a curving turquoise coast.
Cape Reinga jigsaw puzzle
Cape Reinga
Where two oceans meet below New Zealand's northernmost light.
Kõpu Lighthouse jigsaw puzzle
Kõpu Lighthouse
Estonia's medieval white giant rising from misted forest.
Heceta Head Light jigsaw puzzle
Heceta Head Light
The Oregon coast's most photographed lighthouse in early-autumn gold.
Bass Harbor Head Light jigsaw puzzle
Bass Harbor Head Light
Acadia's lighthouse above the granite shore at peak-autumn sunset.
Cape Hatteras jigsaw puzzle
Cape Hatteras
The striped lighthouse standing out as an Outer Banks storm clears.
Lighthouse Easter Picnic jigsaw puzzle
Lighthouse Easter Picnic
An Easter basket picnic on the rocks below a lighthouse at ocean sunrise.

Lighthouse puzzles are the classic of the whole jigsaw genre for a reason: a strong vertical to anchor the build, a horizon to work along, and sky and sea to fill in — the ideal difficulty curve in one picture. This wall runs the range: the calm ones (Fanad Head over turquoise, Chania at golden hour) solve like postcards, while La Jument mid-wave and Lindesnes under the aurora bring weather that fights back.

The collection deliberately reaches past the famous American lights: an eight-hundred-year-old Irish tower, a Danish light adrift in migrating dunes, the Beagle Channel's lonely sentinel at the end of the world. Three of the coast wall's own lighthouses join this wall too — same lights, different weather.

The rest of the shoreline
Scenic & Nature Puzzles
Sixty-seven landscapes — the coast wall these sentinels watch over.
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European postings
Europe Collection
Neist Point, La Jument and the Tower of Hercules stand with the Europe boards.
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A quieter shore
Coffee Puzzles
For after the storm boards — slow mornings in fifteen scenes.
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Frequently asked questions

Are these real lighthouses?
All of them — every board names its real light and paints it from a viewpoint you could stand at: Peggy's Cove from the granite shelf, Point Reyes from the top of its famous stairway, Fastnet from the sea. The images are photorealistic renders rather than photographs, and each puzzle page says so plainly. Real places, honest artwork — the same rule the mountain and coast walls follow.
Which board is the showpiece?
La Jument — the Brittany light mid-storm, sea erupting around its base, in the tradition of the famous helicopter photograph of its keeper at the door. At 67 or 100 pieces the spray-versus-cloud sorting is a proper evening. The runner-up mood piece is Lindesnes under the aurora: a red-and-white tower against curtains of green is as satisfying to finish as anything on the site.
Where should a beginner start?
The striped towers — Cape Hatteras, Bodie Island, St. Augustine, Hook Head. Stripes are the friendliest feature a lighthouse can offer a solver: every piece of the tower announces its own position. Bodie Island adds a rainbow and a mirror-still marsh reflection, which effectively gives you the tower twice.
How do these relate to the coast wall's lighthouses?
Three of the coast wall's boards — Heceta Head, Bass Harbor and Cape Hatteras at different hours — carry a pass onto this wall, and this wall's own takes on those same lights stand beside them: same sentinel, different weather and light, entirely different puzzle. If you want lighthouses seasoned among sea stacks and glaciers instead, the Scenic & Nature wall holds the whole coastline.