Puzzle designers

Adrian Bell ( 1901- 1980) was an English journalist-farmer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adrian Bell"

Reverend John Galbraith Graham MBE (born February 16, 1921) is a British crossword compiler, best known as Araucaria of The Guardian. He is also a Church of England priest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Araucaria (compiler)"

Arthur Wynne ( 1862 - 1945) was a British editor and puzzle constructor in his home country and the United States of America. He invented the crossword puzzle in 1913. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Wynne"

Bob Lodge has created many puzzles and contests for GAMES Magazine. Bob is an expert trickster in the way he writes and constructs puzzles, and developed the Ultimate Calculatrivia contest for the Magazine in 2002. He is a resident of Washington State. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob Lodge"

Cliff Johnson (born 1953) is the designer of the award-winning computer puzzle games The Fool's Errand and 3 in Three. His work is notable for its unique meta-puzzle structure and playful hands-on visual puzzles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cliff Johnson"

Dan Katz is a New York City based video editor, sound designer and artist. Early adopter of Final Cut Pro. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dan Katz"

David J. Bodycombe (born 1973) is a puzzle author and games consultant working in the UK, mainly on television and radio game shows (such as The Crystal Maze and X Marks the Spot), in newspapers (such as Metro's Think Tank column) and many puzzle books. He regularly appears on the BBC Radio 4 quiz, Puzzle Panel. He also runs the UKGameshows website, a wiki-based site cataloguing UK television gameshows. ...more on Wikipedia about "David J. Bodycombe"

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American academic. He is probably best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (abbreviated as GEB) which was published in 1979, and won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. This book inspired thousands of students to begin careers in computing and artificial intelligence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Douglas Hofstadter"

E.S.R. Inc. was a manufacturer of mathematical games and puzzles during the 1960s. Their products included: ...more on Wikipedia about "E.S.R. Inc."

Edward Hordern ( 1941 - May 2, 2000) was perhaps the world's leading authority on sliding block puzzles, and was renowned for his puzzle solving abilities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Hordern"

Elonka Dunin is a game developer and cryptographer who has solved several high-profile ciphers. She has also been a consultant for the CIA. She is an expert on the famous Kryptos sculpture/cipher at the CIA's headquarters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elonka Dunin"

*Emily Cox is a puzzle writer. She and her partner, Henry Rathvon, write "The Puzzler," a cryptic crossword featured each month in the magazine The Atlantic Monthly. They also create acrostic puzzles for the New York Times, Sunday crosswords for the Boston Globe, cryptic crosswords for Canada's National Post, and puzzles for the US Airways in-flight magazine, Attache. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emily Cox (compiler)"

Ernő Rubik (born July 13, 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, sculptor and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ernő Rubik"

Francis Heaney is the author of the humor collection Holy Tango of Literature. He is also a professional puzzle writer and editor (and a former editor-at-large for GAMES Magazine, as well as a former editor of the Enigma, the official publication of the National Puzzlers' League), the composer and co-lyricist (with playwright James Evans) of the off-off-Broadway musical We're All Dead, and the author of the webcomic Six Things. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Heaney"

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Georges Perec ( March 7, 1936 - March 3, 1982) was a 20th century French novelist, filmmaker and essayist, a member of the Oulipo group and considered by many to be one of the most important post- WWII authors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georges Perec"

Henry Ernest Dudeney ( 10 April 1857 – 24 April 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. Dudeney was born in the town of Mayfield, East Sussex, England, and died in nearby Lewes. In 1884 he married Alice Whittier, a writer who published a number of short stories in Harper's Magazine under the name "Mrs. Henry Dudeney". ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Dudeney"

Henry Rathvon is a puzzle writer. He and his partner, Emily Cox, write The Puzzler, a cryptic crossword featured each month in the magazine The Atlantic Monthly. They also create acrostic puzzles for the New York Times, Sunday crosswords for the Boston Globe, cryptic crosswords for Canada's National Post, and puzzles for the US Airways in-flight magazine, Attache. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Rathvon"

Jerry Slocum is a historian, collector, and author specializing on the field of mechanical puzzles. Prior to retiring and dedicating his life to puzzles, he worked as an engineer at Hughes Aircraft. His personal puzzle collection, numbering over 40,000 mechanical puzzles and 1500 books, is believed to be the world's largest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jerry Slocum"

James F. Fixx ( April 23, 1932 – July 20, 1984) was the author of the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running. Best known as Jim Fixx, he is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. However, he is also regularly quoted as an example of the possible dangers of exercise. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jim Fixx"

Kit Williams is the author of Masquerade (Jonathan Cape, London, 1979, ISBN 0224016172), a pictorial story book which contained clues to the location of a genuine valuable golden hare buried by Williams, and witnessed by Bamber Gascoigne, "somewhere in Britain". ...more on Wikipedia about "Kit Williams"

Lloyd is a puzzle designer based in the UK. He specialises in creating novel and unusual puzzles with "Aha!" answers. Most of his puzzles require you to think laterally and 'outside the box'. His puzzles have appeared in OMNI, The Times, The Independent, GAMES and various puzzle books, including several published by Reader's Digest and Lagoon Games. You can see some of his puzzles at his official website Aha! Puzzles . ...more on Wikipedia about "Lloyd King"

Martin Gardner (born October 21, 1914) is an American recreational mathematician, magician, skeptic, and author of the long-running but now discontinued " Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martin Gardner"

Mike Selinker is a game designer whose design credits include Pirates of the Spanish Main and Fightball with James Ernest, Axis & Allies Revised with Larry Harris, the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, and Risk Godstorm. He was a creative director for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons and the Harry Potter Trading Card Game. As a puzzle maker, he created the fictional police officer Lt. Nodumbo for GAMES World of Puzzles. He is a founder of the Lone Shark Games design studio with James Ernest, LIVE/WIRE with Tim Beach, and the Maze of Games with Teeuwynn Woodruff. He also writes poker books such as Dealer's Choice: The Complete Handbook of Saturday Night Poker, with James Ernest and Phil Foglio. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mike Selinker"

Nobuyuki Yoshigahara (commonly known as "Nob"; May 27, 1936 - June 19, 2004) was perhaps Japan's most celebrated inventor, collector, solver, and communicator of puzzles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nob Yoshigahara"

Piet Hein ( December 16, 1905 - April 17, 1996) was a scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning " tombstone". His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper " Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the signature Kumbel Kumbell. ...more on Wikipedia about "Piet Hein (Denmark)"

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