Wei-Hwa Huang: Difference between revisions
(oof, those citation templates from Wikipedia don't work here. Fixed up the web citations; not sure what to do about the book/article citations) |
m (added Category:People using HotCat) |
||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
==External links== |
==External links== |
||
*[https://weihwa-puzzles.appspot.com/ Wei-Hwa Huang's puzzle gadget page at Google] |
*[https://weihwa-puzzles.appspot.com/ Wei-Hwa Huang's puzzle gadget page at Google] |
||
[[Category:People]] |
|||
Revision as of 18:52, 7 April 2022
Wei-Hwa Huang (born 1975 in Eugene, Oregon)[1] is an American puzzler, member of the US Team for the World Puzzle Championship,[2] and game designer.[3]
Huang was a member of the United States International Math Olympiad team in 1992 and 1993, where he was awarded a Silver Medal both years. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1993.[4] Huang has won the annual World Puzzle Championship on four occasions: 1995 and 1997–1999.[5][6] He also won the 2008 Sudoku National Championship.[7] With team Left Out, he won the 2019 MIT Mystery Hunt.[8]
With Tom Lehmann, Huang designed the board game Roll for the Galaxy released in 2014 by Rio Grande Games. Huang and Lehmann also designed Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition, an expansion released in 2015. Roll for the Galaxy was nominated for three Golden Geek Awards and an International Gamers Award.[9]
Huang graduated from Montgomery Blair High School[10] and the California Institute of Technology[11] and was an employee at Google until July 2008.[12] One of his most famous projects was the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google, which was a set of 24 puzzles launched on April 17, 2006, in cooperation with Columbia Pictures.[13]
Huang submitted a crossword puzzle to The New York Times newspaper which was published on Tuesday, September 10, 2002.[14] In 2012, Huang co-authored a book with Will Shortz, the editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle.[15]
Huang is an investor and co-producer of the Broadway musical The Lightning Thief.[16]
References
- ↑ "My Puzzling Life" by Wei-Hwa, 1998 Newsletter of World Puzzle Federation, p.3
- ↑ The Answer Men
- ↑ Wei-Hwa Huang's Board Game Designer Page at BoardGameGeek
- ↑ Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners
- ↑ World Puzzle Championship - WPC History
- ↑ Template:Cite journal
- ↑ 2009 Inquirer Sudoku National Championship: Third time's the charm for L.A. woman
- ↑ MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Wrapup
- ↑ Roll for the Galaxy at BoardGameGeek
- ↑ Template:Cite journal
- ↑ Template:Cite journal
- ↑ 10 Fascinating Googlers
- ↑ The Da Vinci Code Quest Launches On Google
- ↑ Template:Cite book
- ↑ Template:Cite book
- ↑ Wei-Hwa Huang at Playbill
