About the Author
Trip Payne is senior editor of the Zynga app Crosswords With Friends; his puzzles have appeared in the
New York Times, The New Yorker, Games, Out, and others. He was profiled in the crossword documentary
Wordplay, appeared as a contestant on
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and was the Word Expert on the CBS game show
Million Dollar Password. His many puzzle books for Puzzlewright and Puzzlewright Jr. include
Sit & Solve Crosswords, Sit & Solve Fun & Easy Cryptograms, and
Pop Culture Word Search Puzzles, among others. Trip lives in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
For three summers,
Shawn Kennedy helped Will Shortz edit the
New York Times crossword puzzle. Kennedy has written for eight TV game shows, and he writes spatial logic puzzles for the annual U.S. Puzzle Championship.
Learn more about this author
