Wei-Hwa Huang

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Wei-Hwa Huang (黃煒華, born August 4, 1975) is an award-winning American puzzler, member of the US Team for the World Puzzle Championship,[1] and game designer.[2]

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. Huang has won the annual World Puzzle Championship on four occasions: 1995 and 1997–1999.[3][4] He also won the 2008 Sudoku National Championship.[5]

With Tom Lehmann, Huang designed the board game Roll for the Galaxy released in 2014 by Rio Grande Games. Roll for the Galaxy is a dice-based adaption of the award-winning card game Race for the Galaxy with deck-building mechanics. Huang and Lehmann also designed an 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.[6]

Huang graduated from Montgomery Blair High School[7] and the California Institute of Technology[8] and was an employee at Google until July 2008.[9] 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.[10]

Huang submitted a crossword puzzle to the New York Times newspaper which was published on Tuesday, September 10, 2002.[11] In 2012, Huang co-authored a book with Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle.[12]

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