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!