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{{Italic title|Puzzle Piece (''Donkey Kong Country'' series)}}
{{italic title|Puzzle Piece (''Donkey Kong Country'' series)}}
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|title=Puzzle Piece
|image=[[File:PuzzlePieceDKCR.png|150px]]
|image=[[File:PuzzlePieceDKCR.png|150px]]
|description=A orange, curved Puzzle Piece.
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' ([[List of games by date#2010|2010]])
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' ([[List of games by date#2010|2010]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]'' ([[List of games by date#2014|2014]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD]]'' ([[List of games by date#2025|2025]])
}}
}}
'''Puzzle Pieces''' are items appearing in the games ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]''. As their name implies, these objects are shiny, orange, curved puzzle pieces. There are various numbers of them hidden throughout every single level, except for boss levels. There are either five, seven, or nine Puzzle Pieces in each level. Puzzle Pieces are often hidden in levels, but they are also obtained after the player collects every single [[Banana]], [[Banana Coin]], and/or [[Extra Life Balloon]] in a [[Bonus Area#Donkey Kong Country Returns|Bonus Level]] within thirty seconds. Every time all Puzzle Pieces are collected in a level, the Image Gallery is updated with one photo.
'''Puzzle Pieces''' are [[List of items|items]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' (as well as [[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D|its Nintendo 3DS port]] and [[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD|its Nintendo Switch port]]) and ''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]'' (as well as [[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)|its Nintendo Switch port]]) Each one is orange and curved, and they have a shiny texture. There are either five, seven, or nine Puzzle Pieces hidden in every [[level]], except for boss fights. They can be hidden in a number of ways: some are in secret portions of level geometry, others are in [[Item container]]s or objects the player can [[Blow]] on, still others appear if the player collects certain groups of [[banana]]s and/or [[Banana Coin]]s, and some are clearly visible but require the player to move in specific ways to reach them. Completed [[bonus room]]s reward the player with a Puzzle Piece. Puzzle Pieces do not appear in Time Attack mode. On the results screen for a level, the gathered Puzzle Pieces automatically come together to form an image. The entire picture is revealed when the Kongs obtain every Puzzle Piece, and unlike [[KONG Letters]] the player can achieve this across multiple attempts at a level. Puzzle Pieces that have been collected on past playthroughs appear to be faded. If [[Squawks]] is equipped, he calls out when the player is near an uncollected Puzzle Piece.


If the player collects all the Puzzle Pieces, it shows up as a certain fruit and then turns into a silver Puzzle Piece. Also, on the level menu, one of the 3 circles (depending on the level) is filled.
Once complete, the picture the Puzzle Pieces created swaps to a representative icon of a Puzzle Piece. In ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' and its ports, this is a silver Puzzle Piece on a green background. In the original ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'', the second state of the picture replaced the first state, but in the ports of the game the completed picture flips over to reveal the silver design. In ''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'' it is instead a black Puzzle Piece with a yellow outline on a green background. After this occurs, the player unlocks a new photo in each game's Image Gallery ([[List of extras in Donkey Kong Country Returns#Image gallery|Returns]]) ([[List of extras in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze#Images|Tropical Freeze]]). On the [[world]] map, the icon of the representative design appears on levels that the player collected every Puzzle Piece in.
 
[[Five Monkey Trial]] in ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' is unique among levels for requiring the player collect every Puzzle Piece. In each of the level's five sections a Puzzle Piece appears after collecting every Banana Coin. The Puzzle Piece must be collected to make the [[Barrel Cannon]] to move further into the level appear. In Time Attack mode, the Puzzle Piece is skipped so the Barrel Cannon instead appears for collecting all Banana Coins.  


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
===''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' (''3D'' / ''HD'')===
<gallery>
<gallery>
Strawberrypuzzlepiece.png|5 Puzzle Piece.
Strawberrypuzzlepiece.png|Completed puzzle for levels with five Puzzle Pieces
Cherrypuzzlepiece.png|7 Puzzle Piece.
Cherrypuzzlepiece.png|Completed puzzle for levels with seven Puzzle Pieces
Pineapplepuzzlepiece.png|9 Puzzle Piece.
Pineapplepuzzlepiece.png|Completed puzzle for levels with nine Puzzle Pieces
</gallery>
 
===''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze''===
<gallery>
LostMangrovesPuzzle.jpg|Completed puzzle in [[Lost Mangroves]]
AutumnHeightsPuzzle.jpg|Completed puzzle in [[Autumn Heights]]
BrightSavannahPuzzle.jpg|Completed puzzle in [[Bright Savannah]]
SeaBreezeCovePuzzle.jpg|Completed puzzle in [[Sea Breeze Cove]]
JuicyJunglePuzzle.jpg|Completed puzzle in [[Juicy Jungle]]
DKIslandPuzzle.jpg|Completed puzzle in [[Donkey Kong Island (world)|Donkey Kong Island]]
SecretSeclusionPuzzle.jpg|Completed puzzle in [[Secret Seclusion]]
</gallery>
</gallery>


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Spa=Pieza de puzle
|Jpn=パズルピース
|SpaM=Puzzle piece
|JpnR=Pazuru Pīsu
|JpnM=Puzzle Piece
|Ita=Tessera del puzzle
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|author=Nintendo of Europe|date=March 12, 2025|title=''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'' (sito ufficiale)|url=https://www.nintendo.com/it-it/games/oms/dkc-tf/gameplay.html|language=it|website=Nintendo.it}}</ref>
|ItaM=Puzzle piece
|SpaA=Pieza de rompecabezas
|SpaAM=Puzzle Piece
|SpaE=Pieza de puzle
|SpaEM=Puzzle Piece
|Rus=Кусочек пазла<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20180114124814/http://www.nintendo.ru/-/Nintendo-Switch/Donkey-Kong-Country-Tropical-Freeze-1325706.html|title=''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'' {{!}} Nintendo Switch {{!}} Игры {{!}} Nintendo|publisher=Nintendo of Russia|language=ru|accessdate=August 2, 2024}}</ref>
|RusR=Kusochek pazla
|RusM=Puzzle Piece
}}
}}
==References==
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[[Category:Donkey Kong Items]]
[[Category:Collectibles]]
[[Category:Collectibles]]
[[Category:Donkey Kong Country Returns items]]
[[Category:Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze items]]
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Latest revision as of 10:22, March 17, 2025

Puzzle Piece
A Puzzle Piece
First appearance Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
Latest appearance Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (2025)

Puzzle Pieces are items in Donkey Kong Country Returns (as well as its Nintendo 3DS port and its Nintendo Switch port) and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (as well as its Nintendo Switch port) Each one is orange and curved, and they have a shiny texture. There are either five, seven, or nine Puzzle Pieces hidden in every level, except for boss fights. They can be hidden in a number of ways: some are in secret portions of level geometry, others are in Item containers or objects the player can Blow on, still others appear if the player collects certain groups of bananas and/or Banana Coins, and some are clearly visible but require the player to move in specific ways to reach them. Completed bonus rooms reward the player with a Puzzle Piece. Puzzle Pieces do not appear in Time Attack mode. On the results screen for a level, the gathered Puzzle Pieces automatically come together to form an image. The entire picture is revealed when the Kongs obtain every Puzzle Piece, and unlike KONG Letters the player can achieve this across multiple attempts at a level. Puzzle Pieces that have been collected on past playthroughs appear to be faded. If Squawks is equipped, he calls out when the player is near an uncollected Puzzle Piece.

Once complete, the picture the Puzzle Pieces created swaps to a representative icon of a Puzzle Piece. In Donkey Kong Country Returns and its ports, this is a silver Puzzle Piece on a green background. In the original Donkey Kong Country Returns, the second state of the picture replaced the first state, but in the ports of the game the completed picture flips over to reveal the silver design. In Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze it is instead a black Puzzle Piece with a yellow outline on a green background. After this occurs, the player unlocks a new photo in each game's Image Gallery (Returns) (Tropical Freeze). On the world map, the icon of the representative design appears on levels that the player collected every Puzzle Piece in.

Five Monkey Trial in Donkey Kong Country Returns is unique among levels for requiring the player collect every Puzzle Piece. In each of the level's five sections a Puzzle Piece appears after collecting every Banana Coin. The Puzzle Piece must be collected to make the Barrel Cannon to move further into the level appear. In Time Attack mode, the Puzzle Piece is skipped so the Barrel Cannon instead appears for collecting all Banana Coins.

Gallery[edit]

Donkey Kong Country Returns (3D / HD)[edit]

  • Completed puzzle for levels with five Puzzle Pieces

    Completed puzzle for levels with five Puzzle Pieces

  • Completed puzzle for levels with seven Puzzle Pieces

    Completed puzzle for levels with seven Puzzle Pieces

  • Completed puzzle for levels with nine Puzzle Pieces

    Completed puzzle for levels with nine Puzzle Pieces

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese パズルピース[?]
Pazuru Pīsu 		Puzzle Piece
Italian Tessera del puzzle[1] Puzzle piece
Russian Кусочек пазла[2]
Kusochek pazla 		Puzzle Piece
Spanish (NOA) Pieza de rompecabezas[?] Puzzle Piece
Spanish (NOE) Pieza de puzle[?] Puzzle Piece

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nintendo of Europe (March 12, 2025). Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (sito ufficiale). Italian. Retrieved from Nintendo.it.
  2. ^ Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | Nintendo Switch | Игры | Nintendo. Nintendo of Russia (Russian). Archived January 14, 2018, 12:48:14 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
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Donkey Kong Country Returns / Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D / Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
Characters Protagonists Donkey Kong • Diddy Kong • Cranky Kong • Rambi • Squawks • Super Kong • Tutorial Pig • Wigglevine
Bosses Mugly (Krazy Kalimba) • Scurvy Crew (The Maraca Gang) • Stu (Gong Oh) • Mole Miner Max/Mole Train (Banjo Bottom) • Mangoruby (Wacky Pipes) • Thugly (Xylobone) • Colonel Pluck (Cordian) • Tiki Tong
Enemies and obstacles Tiki Tak Tribe Fireball • Flaming Tiki Buzz • Giga Goro Ball • Screaming Pillar • Screaming Pillar (big) • Tiki Boing • Tiki Bomber • Tiki Buzz • Tiki Doom • Tiki Goon • Tiki Pilot • Tiki Pop • Tiki Seeker • Tiki Tank • Tiki Tong Tower • Tiki Torch • Tiki Tork • Tiki Zing • Tiki Zing (big) • Tiki Zing (Foggy Fumes)
Other Ack • AckStack • Ape-Eating Plant • Awk • Big Squeekly • Bonehead Jed • Bopapodamus • Bowling bird • BuckBomb • BuckBot • Buzzbite • Cageberry • Char-Char • Chomp • Chū Komorin • Electrasquid • Electroid • Fireball • Firebite • Frogoon • Giant Chomp • Giga Rangwi • Green Chomp • Hopgoon • Hothead Jed • Humzee • Jellybob • Kowalee • Leaping flame • Mimic • Mole Guard • Mole Miner • Muncher • Pinchly • Rawk • Ready-Bots (Pogobot · Pyrobot) • Rentamaguma • Robobee • Shooting Chomp • Skellirex • Skittler • Skittler Pillar • Skullyrex • Snaggles • Snippys • Squeekly • Squiddicus • Squidly • Stilts • Toothberry • Wiggle • Yellow Snaggles
Objects Items Banana • Banana Bunch • Banana Coin • Banana Juice • Crash Guardb • Green Balloonb • Hanging vine • Heart • Heart Boost • K-O-N-G Letters • Map Key • Puzzle Piece • Rare Orb • Red Balloon
Barrels Barrel Cannon • Blast Barrel • DK Barrel • Regular Barrel • Slot Machine Barrel
Miscellaneous Bag • Container • Green surface • Rambi Crate • Red and blue blocks • Tire • Mole Train • Trapdoor
Vehicles Mine Cart • Rocket Barrel
Moves Barrel Roll (Cartwheel Attack) • Blow • Charge • Cling • Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) • Ranged attack
Levels Jungle 1-1: Jungle Hijinxs • 1-2: King of Cling • 1-3: Tree Top Bop • 1-4: Sunset Shore • 1-5: Canopy Cannons • 1-6: Crazy Cart • 1-K: Platform Panic • 1-B: Mugly's Mound
Beach 2-1: Poppin' Planks • 2-2: Sloppy Sands • 2-3: Peaceful Pier • 2-4: Cannon Cluster • 2-5: Stormy Shore • 2-6: Blowhole Bound • 2-7: Tidal Terror • 2-K: Tumblin' Temple • 2-B: Pinchin' Pirates
Ruins 3-1: Wonky Waterway • 3-2: Button Bash • 3-3: Mast Blast • 3-4: Damp Dungeon • 3-5: Itty Bitty Biters • 3-6: Temple Topple • 3-K: Shifty Smashers • 3-B: Ruined Roost
Cave 4-1: Rickety Rails • 4-2: Grip 'n' Trip • 4-3: Bombs Away • 4-4: Mole Patrol • 4-5: Crowded Cavern • 4-K: Jagged Jewels • 4-B: The Mole Train
Forest 5-1: Vine Valley • 5-2: Clingy Swingy • 5-3: Flutter Flyaway • 5-4: Tippin' Totems • 5-5: Longshot Launch • 5-6: Springy Spores • 5-7: Wigglevine Wonders • 5-8: Muncher Marathon • 5-K: Blast & Bounce • 5-B: Mangoruby Run
Cliff 6-1: Sticky Situation • 6-2: Prehistoric Path • 6-3: Weighty Way • 6-4: Boulder Roller • 6-5: Precarious Plateau • 6-6: Crumble Canyon • 6-7: Tippy Shippy • 6-8: Clifftop Climb • 6-K: Perilous Passage • 6-B: Thugly's Highrise
Factory 7-1: Foggy Fumes • 7-2: Slammin' Steel • 7-3: Handy Hazards • 7-4: Gear Getaway • 7-5: Cog Jog • 7-6: Switcheroo • 7-7: Music Madness • 7-R: Lift-off Launch • 7-K: Treacherous Track • 7-B: Feather Fiend
Volcano 8-1: Furious Fire • 8-2: Hot Rocket • 8-3: Roasting Rails • 8-4: Smokey Peak • 8-5: Bobbing Basalt • 8-6: Moving Melters • 8-7: Red Red Rising • 8-K: Five Monkey Trial • 8-B: Tiki Tong Terror
Cloudb 9-1: Crushin' Columnsb • 9-2: Gushin' Geysersb • 9-3: Spiky Surpriseb • 9-4: Mischievous Molesb • 9-5: Topsy Turvyb • 9-6: Tar Ball Fallb • 9-7: Robo Factoryb • 9-8: Lavawheel Volcanob • 9-1a/9-9b: Golden Temple
Further info Donkey Kong Returns Original Sound Track • Extras (image names in other languages) • Gallery (3D · HD) • Mine Menace • Staff (3D · HD)
Related Play Nintendo activities
Can’t-miss games • Who are these jerks of the jungle? • Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud?
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U) / Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)
Characters Playable Donkey Kong • Diddy Kong • Dixie Kong • Cranky Kong • Funky Kong*
Supporting Don Zunāna • Funky Kong • Professor Chops • Rambi • Squawks • Tawks*
Bosses Pompy • Skowl • Ba-Boom • Fugu • Bashmaster • Lord Fredrik
Other Big Squeekly • Goats • Mugly • Skittler • Snippys
Enemies Snowmad Tucks (Archy · Archy (fire) · Big Sphen · Boom Bird · Painguin Tucks · Papa Painguin · Pengatcha 1-gō · Pointy Tucks · Soary · Speedy Tucks · Speedy Tuff Tucks · Trench Tucks · Tuff Tucks) • Fluff (Harey · Harold · Tuff Fluff) • Hootz (Blue Hootz · Hot Hootz · Puffton · Tuffton) • Ice dragon • Lemmington • Waldough (Chum Chucker Charlie · Fish Poker Pops · Walbrick · Walnut)
Other Bouncelisk • Bucky • Buffaloafer • Buzzy • Carnivorous Plantlife (Venus Trap Platform · Chompette) • Cheesy Chester • Chompasaurus • Dozy • Electrified Anemone • Finley (Blue Finley · Green Finley · Red Finley) • Flaming Falling Totem Pole • Fritz • Gordo • Green fish • Hermit crab • Horror Gills • Jellyfish • Large Mimic • Mama Saw • Mimic • Monocle Monica • Porcupal • Pufftup • Punch Piranha • Punchy Paddy • Schnautzel • Sea Urchin • Snaggles • Sour Dodo • Squiddicus • Swooper Dooper • Thug Slug • Toucan't • Wild Wendell • Yellow Snaggles
Objects Items Banana • Banana Bunch • Banana Coin • Banana Juice • Blue Balloon • Capsule Toy Machine • Crash Guard • Flying banana • Gold Heart • Green Balloon • Heart • Heart Boost • KONG Letters • Mysterious relic • Puzzle Piece • Red Balloon
Projectiles Barrel • Kong Barrel • Water Sack • Watermelon Fuse Bomb
Miscellaneous Barrel Cannon • Blast Barrel • Bell • Burlap Hanging Sack • Climbing grass • Collapsible Underwater Grass • Cracked Block • Current • Item container • Item Handle • Pile of leaves • Purple Flower Platform • Rambi Crate • Rolling leaf • Slot Machine Barrel • Snowflake Shield • Spinning Platform • Spring Platform • Swinging vine • Vine-Triggered Platform • Zip-Line Vine
Vehicles Log Canoe • Mine Cart • Rocket Barrel
Obstacles Avalanche • Chunk of ice • Electroid • Fire • Fireball • Fire Floor • Giant Spiked Nut • Hanging TNT • Icicle • Proximity mine • Snowball • Snowflake • Sting Tentacle • Tornado • Volcanic debris
Moves Cane Bounce • Cartwheel Attack • Charge • Cling • Corkscrew • Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) • Helicopter Spin • Ranged attack • Roll Attack
Levels Lost Mangroves 1-1: Mangrove Cove • 1-2: Shipwreck Shore • 1-3: Canopy Chaos • 1-4: Trunk Twister • 1-A: Zip-Line Shrine • 1-B: Busted Bayou • 1-K: Swinger Flinger • 1-BOSS: Big Top Bop
Autumn Heights 2-2: Windmill Hills • 2-2: Mountain Mania • 2-3: Horn Top Hop • 2-4: Sawmill Thrill • 2-5: Alpine Incline • 2-6: Wing Ding • 2-A: Crumble Cavern • 2-B: Rodent Ruckus • 2-K: Bopopolis • 2-BOSS: Mountaintop Tussle
Bright Savannah 3-1: Grassland Groove • 3-2: Baobab Bonanza • 3-3: Frantic Fields • 3-4: Scorch 'n' Torch • 3-5: Twilight Terror • 3-6: Cannon Canyon • 3-A: Rickety Rafters • 3-B: Bramble Scramble • 3-K: Precarious Pendulums • 3-BOSS: Triple Trouble
Sea Breeze Cove 4-1: Deep Keep • 4-2: High Tide Ride • 4-3: Amiss Abyss • 4-4: Irate Eight • 4-5: Sea Stack Attack • 4-6: Current Capers • 4-A: Rockin' Relics • 4-B: Shoal Atoll • 4-K: Spinning Spines • 4-BOSS: Fugu Face-Off
Juicy Jungle 5-1: Harvest Hazards • 5-2: Reckless Ride • 5-3: Fruity Factory • 5-4: Panicky Paddles • 5-5: Jelly Jamboree • 5-6: Frosty Fruits • 5-A: Beehive Brawl • 5-B: Jammin' Jams • 5-K: Platform Problems • 5-BOSS: Punch Bowl
Donkey Kong Island 6-1: Homecoming Hijinxs • 6-2: Seashore War • 6-3: Aqueduct Assault • 6-4: Blurry Flurry • 6-5: Forest Folly • 6-6: Cliffside Slide • 6-7: Frozen Frenzy • 6-8: Meltdown Mayhem • 6-A: Dynamite Dash • 6-B: Icicle Arsenal • 6-K: Slippy Spikes • 6-BOSS: Volcano Dome
Secret Seclusion 7-1: Levitation Station • 7-2: Rocket Rails • 7-3: Crazy Clouds
Miscellaneous Extras • Lord Fredrik's horn
Further info Gallery • Media • Staff
* Exclusive to Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Nintendo Switch
Related Play Nintendo activities
A matching game to flip over • Can’t-miss games • The multiplayer way • Which Kong could fit your style? • Who’s that toy?
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