This timeline is my idea of what happened and when, I’m still a little unsure of how some of the stuff at the very beginning fits together so if you feel I’m wrong about something please let me know in the comments and we’ll all work together to put the pieces together.

There are some parts of SAW 3 and 4 that are hard to put into timeline form since they both occur at the same time. And I know I’m leaving some stuff out and may have some stuff wrong, so please let me know what you think. This took a lot more time to write than I anticipated….

• John Kramer and his wife lose their son Gideon when Cecil pushes the doorknob into Jill’s stomach.(1995?)
• John kidnaps Cecil using the 1st version of the pig mask.
• Cecil is tested in John’s first trap, knives in the face to release arm/leg restraints.
• Trap breaks, but Cecil still ends up in a barb wire box.
• Hoffman’s sister is brutally murdered by boyfriend, boyfriend sentenced to 25 years in prison.(2000-01?)
• Seth, the man who murdered Hoffman’s sister, is released from prison on a technicality after serving only 5 years.
• Hoffman kidnaps Seth and sets him up in a trap, making it look like a Jigsaw trap (Pendulum Trap, SAW V), Seth dies while Hoffman watches.
• John finds Hoffman, knowing that he killed Seth and gives him a choice, help him test other people or arrest him, subsequently ruining his own life since John will turn him in for Seth’s murder.
• Amanda is tested in the reverse bear trap, trap. She survives.
• John and Hoffman kidnap the fat guy and set him up in the barb wire trap.
• John kidnaps man, covers him in flammable liquid and puts him in a room with a safe and a candle. Man dies, Dr. Gordon’s penlight is planted at the scene leading Detective Tapp to Dr. Gordon.
• Amanda tells her story to police as Dr. Gordon listens in.
• John recruits Amanda to help him test people, she does not know about Hoffman.
• John gets Zep to kidnap Dr. Gordon’s Daughter and Wife and kill them when the bathroom game ends…
• Meanwhile, Amanda kidnaps Adam while John Kidnaps Dr. Gordon and they take them both to the bathroom scene (SAW)
• The bathroom game plays out.
• Dr. Gordon cuts of his foot.
• Adam is shot in the shoulder.
• Zep kills Detective Tapp outside the bathroom.
• Zep comes into bathroom and is killed by Adam.
• Dr. Gordon escapes and leaves Adam chained to the pipe.
• Jigsaw stands up from the middle of the room and slams the door on Adam.
• Amanda comes back to the bathroom later and suffocates Adam with a plastic bag.
• Obi kidnaps Laura (and maybe more) for Jigsaw
• Hoffman helps Jigsaw setup the traps in the house (SAW II)
• SAW 2 plays out in real time, ending in the bathroom from SAW, which is under the house.
• Everyone but Amanda and Daniel Matthews die
• Amanda Kidnaps Daniel and puts him in the safe in Jigsaw’s lair, w/ oxygen.
• The Snitch (can’t think of name) is tested by having to cut his eye out to remove key, he dies.
• Detective Matthews figures out clues and find Jigsaw’s lair.
• Tapes are playing to lead the police to believe that the house scenes are playing in real time when they are really a recording.
• Detective Matthews escapes with Jigsaw and gets taken to the house where his son was.
• SWAT team gets an address by tracing the video feed of the tapes they are watching and head there.
• SWAT realizes that they are at the wrong house and what they were watching was a recording.
• Timer runs out as Detective Kerry waits at Jigsaw’s lair.
• Safe opens up to reveal Daniel is safe.
• Detective Matthews makes his way to the bathroom scene under the house.
• Amanda pops out of the bathroom, injecting Detective Matthews with a sedative.
• When he passes out she chains him to the pipes and leaves him to die.
• Detective Matthews wakes up and smashes his foot to get out of the shackle.
• Detective Matthews escapes the bathroom
• Amanda hears him escape and comes back to kill him.
• They fight and she leaves him for dead in the hallways by the bathroom.
• Hoffman comes and takes Detective Matthews and puts him in a cell and puts a brace on his foot.
• Troy is killed in the chain trap by Amanda. (SAW 3)
• Hoffman and Kerry investigate the scene of the Chain Trap.
• Amanda Kidnaps Detective Kerry and with the help of Hoffman puts her in the Angel Wing trap, killing her.
• Hoffman kidnaps the big guy and Art and they play out the trap with their eyes or mouth sewn shut.
• Hoffman brings supplies to the hotel room and sets up the Ice block/electricity set.
• Amanda sets up Jeffs game by Kidnapping the people that had anything to do with his son’s death and setting them up in their traps.
• Hoffman kidnaps the woman pimp and the principal and his wife, for Riggs game.
• Hoffman kidnaps Jeff’s daughter (at some point around here?)
• SWAT team finds Detective Kerry’s body in the Angel trap. Riggs busts through the unsecured door.
• FBI comes in to help with the investigation, Agent Perez and Agent Strahm.
• Riggs goes home to find his wife leaving him.
• Riggs falls asleep, hears a noise, wakes up, Hoffman sedates him and sets up the start of his game.
• Amanda kidnaps Jeff and puts him in the box and then kidnaps Lynn.
• Jigsaw is on his death bed talking to Hoffman about testing Amanda and give him an assignment for his next game.
• Hoffman escapes out the back door of the room Jigsaw will die in.
• Amanda comes in with Lynn and puts the shotgun collar on her.
• Hoffman and Detective Matthews are setup in the Ice block/electricity trap.
• Riggs wakes up and starts his game by helping the woman pimp from the hair trap.
• Jeff wakes up and begins making his way through the different rooms to get to his sons killer.
• SAW III and SAW IV with Jeff and Rigg play out at the exact same time.
• Jeff makes it through his game and makes it to the lair.
• Jigsaw melts wax over a micro-cassette and swallows it while talking to Amanda.
• Amanda shoots Lynn in the back.
• Jeff shoots Amanda in the neck, killing her.
• Jeff kills Jigsaw with a saw.
• Lynn is killed when Jigsaws heart stops, causing the shotgun collar to go off.
• Jigsaw presses play on tape that tells Jeff he shouldn’t have done that since he’s the only one who knows where his daughter is.
• At the same time Rigg breaks through the final door of his game, Detective Matthews shoots Rigg, Rigg shoots Art, the door opening causes the ice blocks to smash Detective Matthews head killing him.
• Hoffman stands up from the electric chair and slams the door to the room.
• Agent Strahm hears Jeff kill Jigsaw and goes into the room and shoots him.
• Hoffman slams the door on Agent Strahm locking him in the room with Jigsaw, Amanda, Jeff and Lynn’s bodies.
• Agent Strahm sees the glow in the dark paint on the wall indicating a door. He goes through.
• A tape warns him not to continue but he does anyways.
• Hoffman jumps Agent Strahm and sedates him and sets him up in the water box trap.
• Agent Strahm almost dies, but gives himself a trechiotomy so he doesn’t drown.
• Hoffman emerges from the building with Jeff’s daughter as a hero
• Agent Strahm is rescued and taken to the hospital.
• Hoffman sets up the game that Jigsaw gave him.
• Hoffman kidnaps the 5 people at sets them up in the room with the necktie trap.
• Agent Strahm figures out that Hoffman has been helping Jigsaw since the beginning.
• The 5 people in the main game (SAW V) play through their game, only leaving 2 survivors.
• Hoffman takes one of Strahms cell phones and plants it in the room at the end of the game, framing Strahm.
• Strahm follows Hoffman to a building and finds himself in a room with a large box, with glass, and a tape.
• The tape tells Strahm that the only way to survive the game is to get in the box and lock it.
• Hoffman is around the corner and walks into the room.
• Strahm jumps him and shoves him in the glass box instead.
• Agent Erickson traces Strahms cell phone and finds it in a room monitoring the game with the 5 people. Making it look like Strahm was the one on the inside.
• The box Hoffman is in turns horizontally and decends into the floor as the walls in the room come together, smashing Agent Strahm.
• Jigsaws Body is recovered and an autopsy is performed.
• A tape is found in JIgsaw’s stomach for Hoffman.
• Hoffman listens to this new tape.