At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he introduces a few of the most popular types, and shares the fascinations that inspired some of his best.
Scott Kim designs puzzles in the spirit of MC Escher's art and Tetris -- visually stimulating, thought provoking and suffused with broad appeal.
Over his 20-year career as a designer of visual puzzles, Scott Kim has created hundreds of puzzles for magazines, and thousands for computer games. His puzzles have appeared inside video games such as Obsidian, in browser games like Bejeweled, and in his regular monthly column, The Boggler, in Discover Magazine.
Kim's interest in puzzles sprang from an early interest in mathematics, education and art. His first puzzles appeared in Scientific American in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column. Kim's 1981 book, Inversions, features a collection of "inversions" -- a word or name written so it reads in more than one way.
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