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SELECTED PROJECTS

(2018-present) One of several regular writers and hosts for O'Brien's Irish Pub Quiz, the longest-running pub quiz in the L.A. area

(2026) Puzzle Designer for the Netflix podcast The Puzzle Room

(2026) Launched a free, online version of my 2-player abstract strategy game Perimeter, playable against the computer or in pass-and-play mode by two humans

(2026) Launched the free online word game Alacrity

(2026) Launched the free daily online word game Wrangle

(2026) Launched the free daily online word game Omino

(2025) Ported our 2023 word-game app Big Square to a free daily online game

(2024) Constructor (with David Kwong) of a 4-puzzle set for Neil Patrick Harris' Wondercade newsletter, revealing an important message about the publication

(2023) Puzzle Consultant (with David Kwong) for the second season of the AppleTV+ series The Afterparty, including an online puzzle hunt

(2023) Co-founder of Quickthorn Games and chief game-play designer of the company's word-puzzle app Big Square

(2023) Co-writer (with Eric Berlin and Mark Halpin) of the puzzle hunt featured during Bee Week leading up to the Scripps National Spelling Bee

(2023) Contributor of puzzles to the 51-puzzle fundraiser Puzzles For Democracy, a collection of puzzles from about 30 puzzle authors

(2022) Puzzle Designer (with David Kwong) for Rapyd's Hack the Galaxy competition involving more than 50 puzzle-hunt style puzzles

(2022) Puzzle Consultant (with David Kwong) for the Apple TV+ series The Afterparty

(2021) Puzzle Designer (with David Kwong) for the Ghostbusters: Afterlife ScARe video game 

(2021) Puzzle Consultant, including original puzzle design, for Ghostbusters: Afterlife

(2021) Puzzle Consultant for Los Angeles run of David Kwong's The Enigmatist, with a pre-show puzzle room

(2021) Designer (with David Kwong) of an Instagram puzzle experience for Google Arts & Culture

(2021) Puzzle Designer for The Door You Never Saw Before, through the Geffen Stayhouse

(2021) Consultant on the CW series Kung Fu

(2021) Contributor of puzzles used on second season of Mental Samurai

(2020) Puzzle Designer for David Kwong's online puzzle show Inside The Box, through the Geffen Stayhouse (September 2020 - March 2021)

(2020) Contributor of food-themed crosswords to Hungry Games

(2020) Puzzle Designer for Enigmas Deck and online puzzle hunt (here is the July 1, 2020 Kickstarter that raised more than $100K)

(2020) Co-constructor (with David Kwong) of an engagement party puzzle hunt at the New York Historical Society

(2020) Puzzle Consultant on the Enigma jigsaw puzzle

(2019) Consulting Producer, Puzzles for David Kwong's The Enigmatist, including this puzzle set and a pre-show puzzle room

(2016-18) Consultant (with David Kwong) on hidden codes for two seasons of the NBC series Blindspot

(2016) Designer of the collaborative simulation game The Ultimate Bowl for Professor Elissa Grossman's Gaming The System business course at USC

(2013-18) Designer and presenter of warm-up games at Crosswords LA (2018 was the final year of the event)

(2012) Member of the design team for the weekend-long game Doctor When (including this audio logic puzzle where four snippets of disembodied conversations from a decades-past holiday party encode an important location)

(2005-present) Designer of several unpublished board games, including the strategic word game Plexis in which players move their own army of letters on a board, pushing other players' letters and competing to form words in the limited scoring slots, as well as more than a dozen group games played on the official program or after hours at the National Puzzlers' League annual convention

(1995) Wrote a portion of the national, atlas-based road rally The St. Valentine's Day Massacre