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2023 Year-In-Review: Puzzles!
This was a pretty full year for jigsaw puzzles (though they also came in fits and starts).
I did my first 1,500-piece puzzle (Mickey Mouse). We did seventeen 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, matching last year’s record: Game Boy Games, Arcade Titles, The Magic Maze, Ice Cream, Travel Postcards, General Store, Melting Pot, Sushi, US War Propaganda, Newspaper comics, Batman, Pop Culture, Sushi Mice, Five & Dime, Earth Day, Comics Heaven, The Crystal Caves.
We did one 750-piece (Animal Jam), three 500-piece (Spider-Man, Hero Hotline, and Eeveelutions), and four 250/300-piece (a different Spider-Man, The Solar System, the Mario puzzle I’d done twice before, and the new 8-bit Mario). I also did the three small 60-piece wooden puzzles and speed-puzzled the 100-piece Eeveelutions and Superman comics puzzles.
So 26 “real” jigsaw puzzles…again matching last year, entertainingly. Jethrien has been particularly enamored with the Magic Puzzle brand, which are 900 pieces of the main puzzle and then you rearrange them and add a secret 100-piece inner part. (We did three, and gave up on one because it was brown, muddy and unfun.) I maintain that “artwork” is the worst choice for a puzzle, but I powered through Earth Day anyway. The sharp comic book/cartoon puzzle remain the most fun, but the clipart ones with distinct sections are also pretty good. We’ll probably have another big year of puzzles if the stack on our shelf is any indication.
Meanwhile, I also did 12 Paint-By-Stickers: I finished out the last 2 from my previous book, then did 7 from the “Travel” book, 2 more comics covers, and the first from my new “Flowers” book. I also have plenty of those to do as I feel the urge.
I did my first 1,500-piece puzzle (Mickey Mouse). We did seventeen 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, matching last year’s record: Game Boy Games, Arcade Titles, The Magic Maze, Ice Cream, Travel Postcards, General Store, Melting Pot, Sushi, US War Propaganda, Newspaper comics, Batman, Pop Culture, Sushi Mice, Five & Dime, Earth Day, Comics Heaven, The Crystal Caves.
We did one 750-piece (Animal Jam), three 500-piece (Spider-Man, Hero Hotline, and Eeveelutions), and four 250/300-piece (a different Spider-Man, The Solar System, the Mario puzzle I’d done twice before, and the new 8-bit Mario). I also did the three small 60-piece wooden puzzles and speed-puzzled the 100-piece Eeveelutions and Superman comics puzzles.
So 26 “real” jigsaw puzzles…again matching last year, entertainingly. Jethrien has been particularly enamored with the Magic Puzzle brand, which are 900 pieces of the main puzzle and then you rearrange them and add a secret 100-piece inner part. (We did three, and gave up on one because it was brown, muddy and unfun.) I maintain that “artwork” is the worst choice for a puzzle, but I powered through Earth Day anyway. The sharp comic book/cartoon puzzle remain the most fun, but the clipart ones with distinct sections are also pretty good. We’ll probably have another big year of puzzles if the stack on our shelf is any indication.
Meanwhile, I also did 12 Paint-By-Stickers: I finished out the last 2 from my previous book, then did 7 from the “Travel” book, 2 more comics covers, and the first from my new “Flowers” book. I also have plenty of those to do as I feel the urge.