According to his mother, Andrew has been doing jigsaw puzzles since he was one-and-a-half years old.
In his first attempt at a sanctioned speed-puzzling event, Andrew finished third in the nation,
at the second annual National Jigsaw Puzzle Championship, held in Athens, Ohio in 1983
(the tournament would only run until the end of the decade). It was sponsored by Hallmark, 
which at the time owned Springbok Puzzles. He was out of the country the following year, 
and never was able to make it back there to compete again. Opportunities for speed puzzling 
didn’t come along again until much later, when he met Tammy McLeod, and teamed up with her and 
two others on a team that won a jigsaw puzzle tournament in Irvine, California in 2016. 
A few years later, Aly Krasny and Lindsay Steenstra joined the pair, and the four competed in the 
St. Paul Winter Carnival tournament in 2020 as Pacific Puzzlers, winning the contest by 16 seconds. 
During the COVID-19 pandemic that soon followed, he got involved in Jonathan Cluff’s regular 
online contests, often finishing in the top five. He returned to St. Paul in 2022 with Pacific Puzzlers, 
this time the team finished seventh overall. He is now retired from competitive puzzling, 
but plans to be a part of upcoming USAJPA national tournaments as a volunteer, and will continue to 
puzzle for fun for as long as he can.