how to write a good puzzle

• David Wilson on writing good puzzle hunt puzzles, with examples from past MIT Mystery Hunts
• Foggy Brume’s tips for puzzle-writing: part 1, part 2 and part 3
• PostCurious on what makes a good puzzle
• 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)
• Puzzlecraft: How to Make Every Kind of Puzzle (book)
• Elyot Grant – 30 Puzzle Design Lessons (part 1) (part2) (part3) (videos)

useful links

• A collection of tools and resources to make game making easier
• A website with helpful tools for making word puzzles
• dCode, a website with code-related tools, from Morse code to a Boggle solver
• An anagram solver/maker

how to create specific puzzles

• A New York Times series on how to make a crossword puzzle
• A handy sudoku-making tool
• A sudoku setter talks through how they set a sudoku (using the tool mentioned above)
• Tilt-to-read puzzle maker
• A bridges/hashi solver
• A star battle solver

places to find puzzles (i.e. procrastinate)

• A website full of logic puzzles (scroll down to find more types of puzzles)
• Interactive and printable puzzles by KrazyDad
• Lovatts cryptic crosswords
• The Guardian’s quiptic (cryptic crosswords but a little easier)

further inspiration

• Get inspired by the greats with our puzzling playlist