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Windsor resident Jodie Desbiens has a lot of jigsaw puzzles. Indeed, she’s done so many that she believes she may have set a new world record.

According to Desbiens, her most recent tally of her collection — 1,038 completed puzzles — should be enough to get her recognized by the Guinness World Records

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“To me, it’s a lot of fun,” said Desbiens, 43. “It keeps me out of trouble.”

Desbiens — who’s unemployed — said she started doing jigsaw puzzles casually around 2001, but became more serious about it as a way to help her quit drinking. “I used to party a lot. (Jigsaw puzzles) just became something that was more fun,” she said.

Her hobby turned into an obsession about four years ago when she found out there was a Guinness World Record for largest collection of jigsaw puzzles.

At the time, the record was only 238. But as Desbiens tried to top that number, the record dramatically increased due to an equally-obsessed puzzle collector on the other side of the world.