As usual, I’ll start the year with my stats for the previous year. In 2020 I completed 147 puzzles and placed 125 151 pieces, up from 2019, when I completed 113 puzzles and placed 101 494 pieces. A year ago I thought that I wouldn’t surpass my 2019 numbers before I retire, but I wasn’t counting on spending almost all my free time at home due to the pandemic.
The top three brands are still Ravensburger, Heye, and Clementoni:
| Brand | Amount | % |
| Ravensburger | 43 | 29 % |
| Heye | 26 | 18 % |
| Clementoni | 17 | 12 % |
| Jumbo | 6 | 4 % |
| Tactic | 5 | 3 % |
| Grafika | 4 | 3 % |
| Peliko | 4 | 3 % |
| Eurographics | 4 | 3 % |
| D-Toys | 3 | 2 % |
| Unknown | 3 | 2 % |
| Piatnik | 3 | 2 % |
| Ricordi Arte | 2 | 1 % |
| Educa | 2 | 1 % |
| Cobble Hill | 2 | 1 % |
| Sunsout | 2 | 1 % |
| FX Schmid | 2 | 1 % |
| Schmidt | 2 | 1 % |
| Gibsons Puzzle | 2 | 1 % |
| Art Puzzle | 2 | 1 % |
| Master Pieces | 1 | 1 % |
| Art Stones | 1 | 1 % |
| Paul Lamond Games | 1 | 1 % |
| Pelikan | 1 | 1 % |
| Endless Games | 1 | 1 % |
| Galison | 1 | 1 % |
| Serlachius Museot | 1 | 1 % |
| eeBoo | 1 | 1 % |
| Pomegranate | 1 | 1 % |
| Talking Tables | 1 | 1 % |
| Borussia Dortmund | 1 | 1 % |
| Castorland | 1 | 1 % |
| King | 1 | 1 % |
Both Ravensburger and Heye have lost some ground, with Clementoni getting a few percent more than in 2019.
Here’s the breakdown according to piece count:
| Piece count | Amount | % |
| 1000 | 67 | 46 % |
| 500 | 46 | 31 % |
| 1500 | 10 | 7 % |
| 368 | 5 | 3 % |
| 759 | 5 | 3 % |
| 300 | 2 | 1 % |
| 2000 | 2 | 1 % |
| 200 | 1 | 1 % |
| 1200 | 1 | 1 % |
| 77 | 1 | 1 % |
| 3000 | 1 | 1 % |
| 350 | 1 | 1 % |
| 750 | 1 | 1 % |
| 4500 | 1 | 1 % |
| 190 | 1 | 1 % |
| 49 | 1 | 1 % |
| 600 | 1 | 1 % |
Here too, the top three is unchanged. The 368 and 759 piece puzzles are puzzles from the Escape / Exit series, and the 4500 piece puzzle is actually one section of the 18 000-piece Paradise Sunset.
It wasn’t just me who did a lot of puzzles in 2020, the number of views on this blog is up 500 % from 2019, and apart from December (which is always a big puzzling month), March, April and May also have really high numbers of views. Thank you to everyone who took time to read my blog!
In the past few years, I’ve been buying more puzzles than I’ve managed to complete. It slowed down considerably in 2020, but I still acquired 150 puzzles while completing 147 (the gap is bigger if you count pieces, 125 151 pieces placed and 159 756 acquired). Since I have very limited space, this has become a problem, and in 2021 I will need to buy fewer puzzles than I can get out the door. I would like to work on some larger puzzles, but I will probably start the year doing puzzles in the 500-1500-piece range just to get some puzzles completed quickly.
Happy new year!
Puzzler1909 