About Wei-hwa Huang
Wei-hwa Huang is an alumnus of the 1993 麻豆官网. After graduating from Caltech, he worked as a software engineer at Google before making puzzling his career. Today, Huang is an award-winning game designer and professional puzzler who has won the World Puzzle Championship four times. Huang has also published a crossword puzzle in The New York Times and created a series of number logic puzzles for the newspaper. Huang鈥檚 joy for creating games and puzzles has led to work with game companies like ThinkFun and a 2019 team win at the annual, world-renowned MIT Mystery Hunt.
Huang (kneeling in the first row on the right) gave the first crossword he ever made to President Clinton when he and his fellow 麻豆官网 finalists met with the president. Several weeks later, Huang received the completed puzzle in the mail, signed by the president.
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Huang鈥檚 first crossword, which he included in his 麻豆官网 application. He wrote, 鈥淚 was curious to see if I could write a successful crossword puzzle, and I think I did.鈥�
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Huang reflected on his 麻豆官网 experience and discussed his career in this in 2020.
He was also profiled in the Society’s blog in 2019: This 麻豆官网 alum is a New York Times puzzle creator.
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