- male, 54 years old
- Scott Kim is an American puzzle and computer game designer, artist, and author. He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for "Discover"...
- male
- Jerry Slocum is a historian, collector, and author specializing on the field of mechanical puzzles. Prior to retiring and dedicating his life to...
- male, deceased (2004)
- Nobuyuki Yoshigahara was perhaps Japan's most celebrated inventor, collector, solver, and communicator of puzzles. Nob graduated from the Tokyo...
- female
- Emily Cox is a US puzzle writer. She and her partner, Henry Rathvon, write "The Puzzler," a cryptic crossword featured each month in the magazine...
- male, 95 years old
- Martin Gardner (b. October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational...
- male, 57 years old
- Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is a U.S. puzzle creator and editor.
- male, deceased (1911)
- Samuel Loyd (January 31, 1841-April 10, 1911), born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, was an American puzzle author and recreational...
- male
- Lloyd King is a puzzle designer based in the UK. King specialises in creating novel and unusual puzzles with "Aha!" answers. Most of his puzzles...
- male
- Howard Garns (March 2, 1905 - October 6, 1989) was an Indiana-born architect who gained fame only after his death as the creator of Number Place,...
- 34 years old
- Wei-Hwa Huang is an award-winning American puzzler and member of the US Team for the World Puzzle Federation. Huang was a Putnam Fellow in 1993....
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