Lost Canvas

Lost Canvas is a jigsaw puzzle for people who like paintings. Forty-three of them — Monet, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Hokusai, Klimt, Botticelli, Goya, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Velázquez — cut into hexagons and taken apart. Put one back together and it is framed, hung on the wall of your gallery, and the room walks you on to the next one. There are two ways a painting comes apart. TURNING. Every hexagon is already in its right place and the wrong way up. Tap one to rotate it a sixth of a turn, until its brushwork runs into its neighbours'. A piece the edge of the painting crosses tells you which way is up; a piece in the middle of a sky tells you nothing, and those are the ones worth saving until last. CLUSTERING. The painting is cut into clumps of hexagons, laid out along a strip beside the board. Drag each one to where it belongs. A cluster that fits a hole is not always the cluster that…