Scott Kim

Scott Kim

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"...

Jerry Slocum

male
Jerry Slocum is a historian, collector, and author specializing on the field of mechanical puzzles. Prior to retiring and dedicating his life to...
Nob Yoshigahara

Nob Yoshigahara

male, deceased (2004)
Nobuyuki Yoshigahara was perhaps Japan's most celebrated inventor, collector, solver, and communicator of puzzles. Nob graduated from the Tokyo...

Emily Cox

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...
Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

male, 95 years old
Martin Gardner (b. October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational...
Sam Loyd

Sam Loyd

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...

Lloyd King

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...

Howard Garns

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,...

Wei-Hwa Huang

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....