How to write a good puzzle
- MIT mystery hunt guide to writing good puzzle hunt puzzles, with examples from past mystery hunts
- Puzzle Wiki’s puzzle writing resources
- How to write a good BANG puzzle – Bay Area Night Game wiki
- Foggy Brume’s tips for puzzle-writing: part 1, part 2 and part 3
- The Escape This Podcast team on how they design puzzles (podcast episode)
- Five Things New Designers Should Know About Escape Room Puzzle Creation, a talk given by Errol Elumir during RECON (video)
- PostCurious on what makes a good puzzle
- Elyot Grant – 30 Puzzle Design Lessons (part 1) (part2) (part3) (videos)
Tools
- dCode: for all your codes and ciphers
- Nutrimatic: a very powerful word finding and pattern matching tool
- Qat: similar to nutrimatic
- Litscape: a lot of word lists
- F-puzzles: a sudoku setting tool
- Xqw: crossword program
- Noq: logic puzzle solver
- Breakout.edu: various puzzle and design tools
Other useful links
- List of lists of lists: a lot of lists
- Sets of things: sets
- Puzzle wiki: wiki full of puzzle things and resources
- Cryptics.fandom: for all your cryptic clue needs
Further inspiration
- Get inspired by the greats with our puzzling playlist