About MIXAIC
MIXAIC is a sliding picture puzzle you play in a web browser. It is made for children — simple enough that a four-year-old can finish a board without reading a word — and plenty of adults play it too, because the later worlds are genuinely hard to finish perfectly.
Every board starts as an illustration cut into square tiles and shuffled; you move the tiles until the picture comes back together.
There are 26 worlds of 12 pictures each — 312 puzzles in total — and every world is drawn in its own art style. Finishing a board earns up to three stars, stars open the next world, and a leaderboard resets every Monday so a new player is never behind for ever.
It plays by looking, not by reading
Nothing in a puzzle needs to be read. You tap a tile, it moves, and the picture is either more finished or less. The tutorial is a demonstration rather than an explanation, and the reward screens are pictures and numbers.
That constraint shaped the whole game. When something could only be explained in words, it was cut instead.
No sign-up, and no clock forcing you on
The game starts the moment the page opens. There is no account to create, no email to give, and no password to remember or lose.
A board has a target time, and beating it earns one of the three stars — but running over it costs nothing else. You can sit on the same picture for an hour.
The pictures are made for the game
Every picture is generated for MIXAIC rather than taken from a photo library, so each puzzle is an illustration nobody has seen anywhere else. Each is checked before it ships: a picture too dark or too repetitive to solve by looking at it is not a puzzle, it is a guess.
Who made it
MIXAIC is made by a small independent team and is being run as a pilot: a real game, played by real people, changed on the basis of what they actually do rather than what a plan predicted.
If something is broken, confusing, or simply worse than it could be, that is worth hearing about — the contact address is on the privacy page.
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