Shawn Kennedy has written trivia and word games for six game shows. Each year, he writes puzzles for the Google U.S. Puzzle Championship and is a judge at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. A longtime contributor to Games and Games World of Puzzles magazines, he creates a wide range of teasers from word games and logic puzzles to 10-page puzzle mysteries. During a three-summer internship, he helped Will Shortz edit the New York Times crossword puzzle. He has written games for CBS, ABC, National Public Radio, boxed calendars, and newspaper syndicates. His books include Funny Cryptograms, Sip & Solve Word Hunts, Sexy Cryptograms, USA Today Sit & Solve Word Searches, Scratch & Play Mystery Word Puzzles, Cluesome, and Japanese-style logic puzzles for The Giant Book of Sudoku Presented by Will Shortz.