Greg Puzzles Blog

Chain Store Puzzle, from the Greg Puzzles range

Goh Pit Khiam: Unusual Concepts, Few Pieces

Most designers find a good idea and work it. Goh Pit Khiam keeps arriving with ideas that were not on the table before he put them there.

Goh Pit Khiam: Unusual Concepts, Few Pieces

Most designers find a good idea and work it. Goh Pit Khiam keeps arriving with ideas that were not on the table before he put them there.

Alpacka 1, from the Greg Puzzles range

Alexander Magyarics: The Full-Time Puzzle Designer

Almost every great puzzle designer has a day job. Magyarics does it for a living, and the output is unlike anyone else's.

Alexander Magyarics: The Full-Time Puzzle Designer

Almost every great puzzle designer has a day job. Magyarics does it for a living, and the output is unlike anyone else's.

4L Puzzle, from the Greg Puzzles range

Yasuhiro Hashimoto: Elegance Over Difficulty

Anyone can make a puzzle nobody solves. Hashimoto finds problems you can state in one line that refuse you for an hour without ever feeling unfair.

Yasuhiro Hashimoto: Elegance Over Difficulty

Anyone can make a puzzle nobody solves. Hashimoto finds problems you can state in one line that refuse you for an hour without ever feeling unfair.

BioTIC, from the Greg Puzzles range

Andrew Crowell: The Master of the TIC

He did not design forty puzzles one at a time. He wrote a program that generates them, and the real work is deciding which ones are worth making.

Andrew Crowell: The Master of the TIC

He did not design forty puzzles one at a time. He wrote a program that generates them, and the real work is deciding which ones are worth making.

BT TIC, from the Greg Puzzles range

Interlocking Cube Puzzles: How Turning Interloc...

Most puzzle types are a category. Turning interlocking cubes are closer to one person's body of work, and there are more than forty of them.

Interlocking Cube Puzzles: How Turning Interloc...

Most puzzle types are a category. Turning interlocking cubes are closer to one person's body of work, and there are more than forty of them.

Black Knight Puzzle, from the Greg Puzzles range

Sherzod Khaydarbekov: Chess Puzzles Without a C...

Every other designer here makes puzzles out of geometry. Khaydarbekov makes them out of rules, and his puzzles have no mechanism at all.

Sherzod Khaydarbekov: Chess Puzzles Without a C...

Every other designer here makes puzzles out of geometry. Khaydarbekov makes them out of rules, and his puzzles have no mechanism at all.