This guide will show you how to find all 12 puzzle pieces in Time Flies. There are 3 puzzle pieces to find in each of the game’s four levels.
The puzzle pieces are entirely separate from the bucket list objectives and can be collected across multiple runs. If you miss some of the puzzle pieces during your playthrough, you can unlock level select after completing all four bucket lists. We have a full Time Flies bucket list guide if you're struggling to find any of the objectives.
Without further ado, let's find those 12 puzzle pieces!
Zone 1 - The House
In the first area of the game we’ve some simple exploring to do to find the first few puzzle pieces.
The House puzzle piece 1
Your first collectible can be reached from the very first room in the game. Head right from the start to the clock and you'll see a gap in a tile on the floor. Head through the gap:
Now head down in the dark basement:
Once in the basement, head down to the bottom left of the room and you'll see a teddy bear. Knock that over, beyond is a small hole with your first puzzle piece inside:
The House puzzle piece 2
The next collectible is in the bathroom. Head upstairs then head right towards the bathroom door and through the keyhole. When you get inside, fly to the top right of the room to find a vent. Fly through this vent, then directly down to find your first puzzle piece:
The House puzzle piece 3
For the final puzzle piece in this area, head upstairs and head left. Fly towards the computer screen and into it. Inside is our final puzzle piece for The House.
Zone 2 - The Gallery
There are some fun things to do in The Gallery as we find our next three puzzle pieces.
The Gallery puzzle piece 1
At the start, head left through the vent to the next dark room. At the far left of the room, land on the button under the screen here to watch a very short movie about a fly going on an adventure. At the end the puzzle piece will appear us to grab:
The Gallery puzzle piece 2
After the previous piece, fly and left to head through another vent to enter a lit room with a man sitting forward on a chair. Once here, fly up to find a microphone and speaker. Fly around the mic to make the speaker blow, then fly in to find your puzzle piece:
The Gallery puzzle piece 3
From the spawn, head right and stay low. You'll see this urinal lay down flat. Fly inside the pipe on the right and inside you'll find puzzle piece number 5:
Zone 3 - The Sewer
The pieces in this stage are very easy to find and you can grab them all in a couple of minutes.
The Sewer puzzle piece 1
From the start, fly down and left. You'll see a bottle floating with the water current to the left. Head inside the bottle to find a puzzle piece:
The Sewer puzzle piece 2
Head left from where you start and stick high, you'll see a lever that turns the water off. Turn the water off by pushing the lever then head inside the pipe to find the next puzzle piece:
The Sewer puzzle piece 3
Coming back down from the pipe from the previous collectible, you will see a cracked tile on the left. You need to give it a little push to open a gap:
Once inside, navigate through this small area of water droplets and a lit candle to the hole on the other side. In the gap is your final puzzle piece in The Sewer:
Zone 4 - The End
A little more tricky to find than in previous stages but we'll have these wrapped up in no time.
The End puzzle piece 1
At the top of the stairs, you can enter the bathroom. Head to the top left of the room and through the mirror used to tick off the "˜reflect on yourself' bucket list item:
Still in the inverted bathroom, fly to the right and keep prodding the key till it drops out of the door. Fly through the hole to find your next collectible puzzle piece:
The End puzzle piece 2
Head downstairs into the room with the putting lane:
You'll want to fly up to the top left of the room above the piano to find a hole. Go through the hole, then push the ball back down and follow it:
The ball will land on this keyboard. Get the ball and your fly in to these positions. The key to the left will then rise up, enabling you to head inside to find your next puzzle piece:
The End puzzle piece 3
The final puzzle piece we're after is in the kitchen on the ground floor. Head far right and up to see a hammer near the window. On the left string, there's a thin weaker part, fly through that to unleash the hammer to break the window:
Head outside and down hugging the house, avoiding the rain:
When you're at the bottom, you can see a box under an umbrella. The puzzle piece is inside, dodge the rain droplets to get inside the box for another puzzle piece.
And with that, that's your full 12 puzzle pieces:
Once you have found your last puzzle piece, your trophy or achievement will unlock, congratulations!
Time Flies review and achievement or trophy guides
For more Time Flies coverage including our Gamer Social Club review and further guides please see:
- Time Flies review
- Time Flies full bucket list guide
- Time Flies all puzzle locations guide
- Time Flies Centenarian trophy / achievement guide
- Time Flies Composer trophy / achievement guide
- Time Flies Gamer trophy / achievement guide
- Time Flies Mountaineer trophy / achievement guide
- Time Flies Sisyphus trophy / achievement guide
