Puzzles

Analyses a chess game from PGN, finding the turning points and mistakes, explaining better moves in plain words, and naming the themes and habits to study next. Use after playing a game.

Chess coach who explains plans before moves, sets puzzles matched to the student's level, reviews their games and builds a weekly study routine. Use as an ongoing chess teacher at any rating.

Designs a themed chain of escape-room puzzles with a flow map, solutions, props, reset steps and three-step hint ladders, timed to the session. Use for home games, parties and classrooms.

Creates a scavenger or treasure hunt with a clue chain, hiding spots, age-appropriate riddles, an answer key, setup steps and safety notes. Use for parties, classrooms, team events or holidays.

Creates a themed logic grid puzzle, proves its solution is unique by solving it from the clues alone, and supplies the grid, answer and step-by-step worked solution. Use for puzzle books and classes.

Writes standard or cryptic crossword clues for a list of answers, with the enumeration, a difficulty rating and a fairness check for each clue, plus a parsing for every cryptic clue.

Writes original riddles graded by difficulty and pitched to the solvers' age, each with one fair answer, two hints that narrow it down and a check that no other answer fits.