Here’s an extra post with my stats for 2019. I completed 113 puzzles and placed 101 494 pieces (I’m counting one section of an 18 000-piece puzzle as one 4500-piece puzzle). This is up from last year when I completed 75 puzzles and placed 85 659 pieces. I don’t think I will surpass this year before I retire 🙂
Here’s a breakdown according to brand:
| Brand | Amount | % |
| Ravensburger | 27 | 24% |
| Heye | 13 | 12% |
| Clementoni | 10 | 9% |
| Tactic | 5 | 4% |
| Peliko | 4 | 4% |
| Grafika | 4 | 4% |
| Schmidt | 4 | 4% |
| Castorland | 3 | 3% |
| Eurographics | 3 | 3% |
| Educa | 2 | 2% |
| D-Toys | 2 | 2% |
| Unicef | 2 | 2% |
| Trefl | 2 | 2% |
| Extra Goods | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 2 | 2% |
| Gibsons Puzzle | 2 | 2% |
| Jumbo | 2 | 2% |
| Step Puzzle | 1 | 1% |
| de-luxe | 1 | 1% |
| Cloudberries | 1 | 1% |
| Ingham Day | 1 | 1% |
| Borussia Dortmund | 1 | 1% |
| White Mountain Puzzles | 1 | 1% |
| atregio | 1 | 1% |
| Artifact | 1 | 1% |
| Victory | 1 | 1% |
| Lautapelit.fi | 1 | 1% |
| Puzzle Michèle Wilson | 1 | 1% |
| MasterPieces | 1 | 1% |
| Calvendo | 1 | 1% |
| MB | 1 | 1% |
| Sunsout | 1 | 1% |
| Micropuzzle | 1 | 1% |
| Bluebird Puzzle | 1 | 1% |
| Nathan | 1 | 1% |
| Cobble Hill | 1 | 1% |
| New York Puzzle Company | 1 | 1% |
| Wardsback | 1 | 1% |
| Dino | 1 | 1% |
| Play Time | 1 | 1% |
| Karmin International | 1 | 1% |
| Grand Total | 113 | 100% |
Like last year, Ravensburger and Heye top the list, although this time Ravensburger is the clear number one, and Clementoni is up to third.
Here’s the breakdown according to piece count:
| Pieces | Amount | % |
| 1000 | 43 | 38% |
| 500 | 31 | 27% |
| 1500 | 7 | 6% |
| 759 | 7 | 6% |
| 2000 | 6 | 5% |
| 300 | 3 | 3% |
| 200 | 2 | 2% |
| 150 | 2 | 2% |
| 250 | 2 | 2% |
| 100 | 1 | 1% |
| 4000 | 1 | 1% |
| 108 | 1 | 1% |
| 3000 | 1 | 1% |
| 30 | 1 | 1% |
| 600 | 1 | 1% |
| 80 | 1 | 1% |
| 4500 | 1 | 1% |
| 313 | 1 | 1% |
| 350 | 1 | 1% |
| Grand Total | 113 | 100% |
The top 3 is unchanged here, but there are much more 500-piece puzzles than last year.
I thought I’d share one more statistic, not so much about my puzzling activity as about other people’s. I have mentioned before that, most days, over 90% of traffic to my blog is about the Exit/Escape-puzzle series that I have a spoiler page for. Well, apparently, these puzzles have been really popular as Christmas presents, because on Christmas week I had almost four times the traffic of any other week:
I also feel confident in saying that the best selling puzzle in the series by a large margin is Witches Kitchen, with the Observatory coming in second.
Happy New Year!
Puzzler1909 