2024 Year-In-Review: Puzzles!
Jan. 7th, 2025 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroI had a strong start to my puzzle game this year but then had a big gap through the summer and fall, which meant I fell far behind the past few years. I’ve been pickier about which ones we bring in, though there were also a few that I powered through despite being less enamored with.
We did ten 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles: Sherlock Holmes, Secret History of All-American Comics, TV lunch boxes, 8-Bit Armageddon, Country Life: Earl's Auto, Otters, Transformers, The Book Shop, Forever Stamps, Hershey's. We did five 500-piece jigsaw puzzles: Puzzle Complaints by Sandra Boynton, Murder by Puzzle, Uticon 2022 and 2023, Classic Signs, Seasons Greetings from The Avengers. I also did five 100-ish piece puzzles (US Presidents, Batman, three from the "Birds of a Feather Collection") and most of my Hanukkah box.
So that’s only 15 “real” jigsaw puzzles. I have no idea if I’ll do more or fewer in the next year; I’ve got a stack on the shelf including several I’m excited about, but it’ll also depend how much TV I’m watching because the two activities often go together.
In the Paint-By-Stickers realm, I did 13 total: 7 from Kaleidoscope Sticker Mosaics, 5 from Paint-by-Sticker Travel and 1 from Paint-by-Sticker Flowers. That was on par with last year and I feel like I’m more likely to keep up that trend. (And I still have plenty more on the shelf to do!)
We did ten 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles: Sherlock Holmes, Secret History of All-American Comics, TV lunch boxes, 8-Bit Armageddon, Country Life: Earl's Auto, Otters, Transformers, The Book Shop, Forever Stamps, Hershey's. We did five 500-piece jigsaw puzzles: Puzzle Complaints by Sandra Boynton, Murder by Puzzle, Uticon 2022 and 2023, Classic Signs, Seasons Greetings from The Avengers. I also did five 100-ish piece puzzles (US Presidents, Batman, three from the "Birds of a Feather Collection") and most of my Hanukkah box.
So that’s only 15 “real” jigsaw puzzles. I have no idea if I’ll do more or fewer in the next year; I’ve got a stack on the shelf including several I’m excited about, but it’ll also depend how much TV I’m watching because the two activities often go together.
In the Paint-By-Stickers realm, I did 13 total: 7 from Kaleidoscope Sticker Mosaics, 5 from Paint-by-Sticker Travel and 1 from Paint-by-Sticker Flowers. That was on par with last year and I feel like I’m more likely to keep up that trend. (And I still have plenty more on the shelf to do!)
