Timothy E. Parker

Timothy E. Parker is a Guinness World Records Puzzle Master, TV Producer and Author of over 60 books. Among the 1,400-plus clients that have used Parker's content are Disney, Microsoft, USA Today, The Smithsonian Institute, Warner Bros., Sony, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Time Warner, Merriam Webster, Reader's Digest, Financial Web, and others. He created the first interactive crossword to be syndicated around the world. In 1997, Parker founded the highly-successful Universal Crossword franchise. In 1999, Parker founded The Puzzle Society, one of North America's largest paid subscriber puzzle clubs. Parker is a grand-master-level puzzle constructor and creates crosswords, word searches, anagrams, cryptograms, mazes, column phrases, slide-n-solves, a mass array of trivia games, the Japanese games Sudoku and Kakuro, hangman, and original custom games . His work has been published in over 120 countries including Canada, China, Great Britain, New Zealand, France, Turkey, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, South America, the Philippines, and others. When television legend Merv Griffin, creator of TV's "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" created his final television show "Merv Griffin's Crosswords," he called only one person. Mr. Griffin flew Timothy Parker to his Beverly Hills office and worked with Parker to develop the show. Timothy Parker single-handedly wrote all 225 episodes of the show, including all 17,100 clues and answers. Parker also created content for ABC's prime-time show, "The Mole." Games created by Timothy Parker have appeared on "The View," "Access Hollywood," "Entertainment Tonight" and hundreds of newspapers, magazines and websites. Parker was repped for years in Beverly Hills by legendary William Morris Endeavor board member Mark Itkin until Itkin's retirement. People Magazine called Parker the "Quiz Whiz" in a featured article. CNN called Parker's creations, "Smart games for smart people."