Mike Selinker

The Maze of Games

The Maze of Games is a full-length puzzle novel with over 50 puzzles and a deeply engaging story, all woven together in a “solve your own adventure” style which will keep you jumping from page to page.

The main characters are teenagers Colleen and Samuel Quaice, who live in England in the year 1897. During a visit to the Upper Wolverhampton Library, they discover a musty book called The Maze of Games. This summons a mysterious skeletal guardian named the Gatekeeper, who plunges them into a series of dangerous mazes rife with monsters and bizarre puzzles.

Only by solving their way through the mazes will the Quaice children find their way home.

Puzzlecraft

Puzzlecraft, the only book that teaches you how to make every kind of puzzle, is back in an exclusive Humble Bundle Edition! Seven years after its initial publication, this heavily revised and expanded book from puzzlemasters Mike Selinker and Thomas Snyder contains over 100 sections of step-by-step instructions on making individual puzzle types, each with accompanying puzzles. In addition to classics like crosswords and sudoku, this new edition contains all new sections on escape rooms, interactive fiction, puzzle rallies, bonzas, variety cryptic crosswords, new Japanese logic puzzles, videogame puzzles, and much more. Plus there’s a new foreword by NPR quizmaster Peter Sagal and a new adventure in the Maze of Games world. Become a puzzlecrafter today!”

Sit & Solve Tile Crosswords

This crossword variant will simply blow you away—and add to the solving fun! While there’s still a grid and clues, the boxes in the grid now have irregular shapes and the clues aren’t numbered. So you have to solve them, count the number of letters in the answer, and then figure out where they might go. Start with the 5×5 puzzles and work your way up to 10×10!