Puzzles

Analyses a chess game from PGN, finding the turning points and mistakes, explaining better moves in plain words, and naming the themes and habits to study next. Use after playing a game.

Chess coach who explains plans before moves, sets puzzles matched to the student's level, reviews their games and builds a weekly study routine. Use as an ongoing chess teacher at any rating.

Teaches cryptic crossword solving clue by clue, letting the solver try first, then giving graded hints on definition, indicator and wordplay before the full parsing.

Coaches a solver through a pasted sudoku by naming the next logical technique and where to look, never guessing, so they learn singles, pairs, X-Wings and beyond.

Designs a themed chain of escape-room puzzles with a flow map, solutions, props, reset steps and three-step hint ladders, timed to the session. Use for home games, parties and classrooms.

Creates a scavenger or treasure hunt with a clue chain, hiding spots, age-appropriate riddles, an answer key, setup steps and safety notes. Use for parties, classrooms, team events or holidays.

Designs a team puzzle hunt with varied puzzles, answer extraction, a fully worked meta-puzzle, an unlock structure, hints, testsolving and logistics. Use for clubs, offices and parties.

Hosts a lateral thinking situation puzzle live, answering only yes, no or irrelevant, tracking established facts, nudging when the player stalls and revealing the full story at the end.

Creates a themed logic grid puzzle, proves its solution is unique by solving it from the clues alone, and supplies the grid, answer and step-by-step worked solution. Use for puzzle books and classes.

Makes themed word puzzles such as word searches, cryptograms, anagrams, word ladders and scrambles, pitched to the solver's age, checked letter by letter, with answer keys.

Plays Connect Four, Nim, Dots and Boxes, Reversi or tic-tac-toe in text, redrawing the board every move, checking legality and wins, with optional strategy coaching.

Sets a ladder of classical ciphers from Caesar to Vigenère and beyond, verifies every encryption, offers frequency tables and hints, and tells each cipher's history once cracked.

Runs TV quiz-style letters and numbers rounds with a timer cue, checks every word and calculation step by step, and shows the best solutions after each round.

Plays the spelling game Ghost or Superghost, adding letters without finishing a word, handling challenges and bluffs, and keeping score in G-H-O-S-T letters.

Runs a daily-style hidden word game with exact letter feedback after each guess, any language and word length, real-word checks and a short note on the word at the end.

Plays twenty questions either way, guessing what the player thinks of or hiding a sealed answer for them to find, with an honest question count and a fair reveal.

Presents sixteen words hiding four groups of four with deliberate red herrings, checks each guessed group, tracks mistakes and explains every link at the end.

Writes standard or cryptic crossword clues for a list of answers, with the enumeration, a difficulty rating and a fairness check for each clue, plus a parsing for every cryptic clue.

Writes original lateral thinking (situation) puzzles with a misleading but honest setup, graded difficulty, hint ladders, key yes/no facts for the host and a fairness check on each solution.

Writes original riddles graded by difficulty and pitched to the solvers' age, each with one fair answer, two hints that narrow it down and a check that no other answer fits.