With this week's update, over 500 new puzzles are added to Puzzle Together -- great paintings found in museums around the world! These include works by Da Vinci, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Munch, Klimt, and many, many more. Some of these paintings are well known, and all of them were chosen for the potential to make interesting and challenging puzzles.
To play one of these new puzzles, select Start a Puzzle from the menu. Then from the "Show" dropdown, choose one of the six new "Museum" categories: Architecture, Landscapes, Nature, Portraits, Scenes, and Still Lifes.
Another Steam integration was also added this week: you can now invite Steam friends directly to your puzzle from within Puzzle Together. When playing a puzzle that you host (that is, a puzzle that you started) or an open puzzle, hit the Invite Friends button (or press f) to open the Puzzle with Friends page. There you will find a list of your Steam friends -- just press the 'invite' button beside a friend's name to invite that friend directly to your puzzle. This will prove to be a time saver for groups of friends who like to go from puzzle to puzzle together -- there's no more need to send out codes.
Finally, the ability has been added to report and block players who are being bothersome in an open puzzle. Simply press on their name at the top of the screen and select "Report & Block". Once enough reports have been received about a particular player, they will be blocked automatically. And, when you mute or ignore another player, those preferences are now stored between sessions, so you won't have to do it again the next time you encounter that player.
Special thanks to the following museums for making parts of their collections available for us to puzzle with:
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Belvedere
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Getty
Harvard Art Museums
The Louvre
The Mauritshuis
The Met Museum
The Munch Museum
Nationalmuseum Stockholm
The National Gallery of Art
The Pinakotheken
The SMK