The 16 square puzzle using the fine image by Israeli press photographer Haim Ziv. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 25 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 25 square puzzle using the fine image by Israeli press photographer Haim Ziv. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 36 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 36 square puzzle using the fine image by Israeli press photographer Haim Ziv. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 49 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 49 square puzzle using the fine image by Israeli press photographer Haim Ziv. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 64 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 64 square puzzle using using the fine image by Israeli press photographer Haim Ziv. This puzzle is getting harder so congratulations if you succeed. The applet permits up to a ten square puzzle. If there is any interest in my listing a puzzle of greater difficulty, drop me a line and I'll add it in. Information about the photographer can be found below.

A simple subject but one which makes a very good slider puzzle indeed. It is the copyrighted work of Haim Ziv - until 2004 a press photographer with the 'Yedioth Aharonoth' daily newspaper in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The image, entitled 'Field of Hats' was, I learn, one of a series of images about orthodox Jewry and was taken, using a Canon D30 camera, at a funeral in a small town near Tel-Aviv. Over a decade ago, likely in 2001. Haim has an archive of his images here and invites you to visit. You can see Haim's original image low on this page. You can also see it here. I saw the image myself, however, many moons ago, on Steve's Digicams photographic website where it was a worthy daily winner in the month of Sep. 2001. The image appears here with Haim's kind permission.

I was interested to learn that Yedioth Aharonoth, the daily tabloid newspaper with the largest circulation in Israel, (about 300,000 copies), has been publishing since December 1939, a number of years before the State of Israel came into existence. And that a project was under way, back in 2001, to digitize 60 years of the newspaper's history to make it available electronically. It is most probably long since completed.

The java applet that runs the puzzle is courtesy of Axel Fontaine, who used to live just south of the city of Brussels in Belgium. Axel invited free use of his fine applet which you can, I hope, download here. Axel, we thank you!