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