Puzzles

I write puzzles and organize puzzle events.

• Organized the St. Louis Puzzled Pint from 2015-2020. Wrote most of the January 2018 - Stranger Things set. Wrote the September 2016 - Rats set.
• Wrote a Puzzled Pint style set in March 2020 called In Pour Taste that’s got some pretty dark pandemic humor.
• Different Area, Same Hunt: DASH. Wrote The Hole Story puzzle for DASH 10. Co-wrote the Monsters puzzle for DASH 7. Co-organized the St. Louis site for DASH 7 and DASH 8.
• Mathematical Puzzle Programs, an annual puzzle hunt for teams of high school students. I organize the SLU site. I wrote one puzzle for the 2019 edition. I was a major contributor to hunt design for the 2025 Izibalo and 2026 Where in the world…. Here are some slides from a presentation about MaPP I gave at MathFest 2024.
• Wrote two St. Louis specific puzzles for The Octothorpean Order.
• Designed, built, and ran the Sensation escape room in 2014.
• Chestnuts: a collection of puzzles I’ve had on the web since the mid 1990’s. I didn’t create these, they’re well known!