I have a database with information about my puzzles (past and present) and when I’ve assembled them. This record goes back to October 2007, so that I have a more or less complete record of my puzzling activities for the past 11 years. Here’s a breakdown with number of puzzles completed and pieces placed.
| Year | Puzzles | Pieces |
| 2008 | 23 | 37 000 |
| 2009 | 22 | 33 040 |
| 2010 | 6 | 14 500 |
| 2011 | 12 | 19 500 |
| 2012 | 6 | 22 000 |
| 2013 | 6 | 7 000 |
| 2015 | 6 | 12 000 |
| 2016 | 27 | 35 500 |
| 2017 | 45 | 55 000 |
| 2018 | 75 | 85 659 |
Even though 2014 is missing, I did do some puzzling. I worked on and off on a rather difficult 5000-piece puzzle that I finished in January 2015. From the autumn of 2012 to the spring of 2016 I studied (for a degree in software engineering), and that obviously severely limited the time I had for puzzling. After I completed my degree I’ve been puzzling more and more… I don’t expect I’ll keep it up, though. I will always do some puzzling, but some years I seem to spend all my free time puzzling…
Here’s a breakdown of the year 2018 according to brand:
| Brand | Amount |
| Heye | 16 |
| Ravensburger | 12 |
| Schmidt | 7 |
| Grafika | 6 |
| Castorland | 4 |
| Clementoni | 3 |
| Educa | 3 |
| Piatnik | 3 |
| Tactic | 3 |
| Hope Alderley | 2 |
| Nathan | 2 |
| Peliko | 2 |
| Ricordi Arte | 2 |
| Art Puzzle | 1 |
| Calvendo | 1 |
| Cobble Hill | 1 |
| Eurographics | 1 |
| Falcon | 1 |
| Galison | 1 |
| Play Time | 1 |
| Pomegranate | 1 |
| White Mountain Puzzles | 1 |
| Wild Horse | 1 |
Heye and Ravensburger unsurprisingly well in front of the rest.
One more breakdown, according to piece count:
| Piece count | Amount |
| 1 000 | 39 |
| 500 | 14 |
| 1 500 | 11 |
| 3 000 | 4 |
| 2 000 | 3 |
| 200 | 2 |
| 4 000 | 1 |
| 759 | 1 |
Happy New Year!
Puzzler1909 
That’s very interesting, I only wish I had kept photos and stats of the puzzles I’ve completed in the last 15+ years….maybe that could be my New Year resolution??
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I enjoy “keeping score”, I also have a similar database for movies I have seen. Unfortunately, I don’t have photos for all completed puzzles (the biggest gap is a year from the summer of 2016 to the summer of 2017, when I damaged my phone and lost all pictures for that period), but even just knowing which puzzles I worked on is nice. It’s like a diary, you remember all sorts of things when you look through what puzzles you completed. I can definitely recommend it, unless you find it a tedious chore, of course 🙂
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I agree with Mandy, I wish I had pictures and info on all the puzzles I’ve completed. But I’ve got the blog to keep track for me now. Happy New Year!
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I started my blog partly because I wanted to keep the photos somewhere where they are connected to the puzzles. I’m not good at keeping my photos organized 🙂
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