Why do you play puzzles daily?

[stinger839]

This might seem a silly question, but I'm wondering how other people got into puzzles and their motivation for this daily habit. I'm mostly addressing the heavy puzzlers. There are some users on here who are doing 20-100 puzzles a day!

Like most people on Earth, I've played puzzles casually since childhood, but I became a daily player of jigsaw last year when I quit smoking and needed something short to do with time I would formerly use to smoke and think. Jigsaws were actually very helpful in retraining me not to crave a smoke break. I played nearly every puzzle multiple times (hundreds of them) on another site, and just found this site to quench my thirst for different puzzles. I mostly use puzzles to procrastinate against or decompress from more mentally intensive activities like research and writing. I'm basically addicted to puzzles at this point, but meh. Better than smoking!

[Annabeth7halfbloods]

Wait a second... you smoke? um...I sorta despise people who smoke...

[Lambda93]

Oh my... well, unnecessary, off-topic and incredibly narrow-minded comments aside...

I play puzzles every day because they're more entertaining than other types of games; I like stuff that engages my brain. Puzzles like Numbergrids are also very relaxing and I use them to unwind in the evening. I can let my mind wander without letting it go completely limp.