[wjnc]

Call me strange but I've actually counted the pieces to a few of my kids puzzles and the 100 and 200 piece puzzles never have exactly that number. And it wasn't off-by-one either. I always figured it make sense that the box advertises an 'around'-number as an indication of difficulty. (For the Why?: When puzzling together the key is to not overdo with the helping, so there is some time at hand for other brain activities.)

[foobarian]

I wasted a lot of time as a kid looking for missing pieces (and recounting them several times to begin with) in a 2000 puzzle that didn't have that many pieces. I wish they had an exact number in the fine print.

[skipnup]

The last puzzle I solved actually had a small table with the advertised and actual number of pieces.