Books

The Winston Breen series
Join 12-year-old puzzle lover Winston Breen as he and his friends Jake and Mal go on a series of amazing adventures! Each book is packed with puzzles — try to solve some of them, or skip ’em and stick to the story.

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
Winston and his friends set off after a long-lost treasure, accompanied by the town librarian, a large ex-policeman, a newspaper reporter, and two mysterious strangers with plans of their own. And even if they’re lucky enough to find the treasure, somebody in the group clearly wants to keep it for themselves.

The Potato Chip Puzzles
When a local potato chip tycoon invites area kids to an all-day puzzle hunt, Winston is psyched. But it turns out the day is not all fun and games. Their teacher is way too competitive, the puzzles are hard (even for Winston). . . .  and someone in the contest is playing dirty in order to win the fifty-thousand-dollar grand prize. Can Winston not only solve the puzzles but also catch the cheater?

The Puzzler’s Mansion
Richard Overton is a world-famous musician with a puzzler’s mind — and this weekend he’s throwing one of his ingenious puzzle parties! Winston is excited that he and his friends get to attend. But when valuable items start vanishing, it looks like one of the guests might be a thief. . . . and Winston himself is one of the suspects.

Here is the official Winston Breen Web site.

Puzzlesnacks
For many years, I sent out weekly puzzles to kids and adults — and one day Simon & Schuster came calling to ask about putting them into a collection. “Puzzlesnacks” are quick little variety puzzles at just the right level of challenge: Not too hard, not too easy. This collection contains over one hundred puzzles covering nearly 40 different puzzle types!

Direct-to-Print Puzzlesnacks
In addition to the collection published by Simon & Schuster, I have gone the self-publishing route with two other Puzzlesnacks collections, Bonanza and Carnival. Both volumes contain over 50 puzzles and are available only from Amazon! Additionally, you will find still more collections to download and print out over on the Puzzlesnacks web site.

Word Searches for Kids
Three different collections: Word Search Puzzles for the Weekend, Word Search Puzzles for a Road Trip, and Word Search Puzzles For Your Backpack. Each has 54 word searches covering every topic under the sun — and plenty of curveballs to keep solvers on their toes.

Word Searches for Adults
I’ve also put together, with my wife, a collection of the sneakiest, trickiest word search puzzles we could dream up. The result is Off The Wall Word Searches, which Room Escape Artist called “challenging” and “an elevated, fun take on the classic word search format.”

My wife and I have also collaborated on calmer fare, in the form of Pause for Puzzles: Word Searches for Tranquility.