Building a Sliding Picture Puzzle in Microsoft Power Apps
Companion YouTube Videos This article supports two YouTube videos that walk through the game. If you are new to Power Apps, you may want to watch them first to get a feel for the gameplay and the app's behaviour: SlidingP – Installation and Setup How to Build a Sliding Picture Puzzle in Microsoft Power Apps Introduction This article walks through the design and implementation of a 3x3 sliding picture puzzle game built in Microsoft Power Apps. If you have ever played one of those classic tile-sliding puzzles, where you rearrange scrambled squares to reform a complete image, that is exactly what we are building, but inside a low-code platform. The game includes: A timer that tracks how long it takes to solve the puzzle. A swap counter that records the number of moves. A background animation that plays beneath the tile area, with an optional More Information link that opens a related web page. It cycles through red, green, and blue every second. A confetti wi...