Sudoku systems and variants
Brian works on playable sudoku boards, printable puzzles, solvers, generators, and variant logic across formats such as classic, killer, jigsaw, calcudoku, samurai, wordoku, and size-based sudoku.
Puzzle background
A technical puzzle creator working where logic meets usability.
Brian is a co-founder of Sudoku Online Puzzles and leads much of the technical work behind Hamilton Digital Media's puzzle sites. His experience is not just in writing about puzzles; it is in building the systems that make puzzles playable, testable, printable, and useful for real players.
He has a long-running interest in puzzles, strategy games, card games, and brain-training challenges: games with compact rules, visible constraints, and a satisfying moment when the next logical step becomes clear.
His background includes an internet engineering degree and quantitative work building mathematical software models for sports prediction companies. That experience is part of his wider interest in turning rules, formulas, and calculations into working software.
Expertise
What Brian brings to the puzzle network.
Puzzle tools that explain the logic
His technical work focuses on helping players understand what is happening, not just giving an answer: clear boards, fair hints, practical solvers, scanner tools, helpers, and trainers.
Web-based game engineering
With three decades of development experience, Brian brings the practical side of puzzle publishing to the network: responsive interfaces, reliable controls, fast pages, and games that work naturally on phones, tablets, and desktops.
Strategy, card, and deduction games
Beyond sudoku, Brian's puzzle interests include card games, strategy games, deduction games, and brain-training challenges where a clear rule set creates a satisfying problem to untangle.
Practical tools
From puzzle systems to everyday calculations.
Solvers, generators, and helpers have always been a substantial part of Brian's puzzle work. Tool making is also an interest in its own right: taking a calculation that people need and building an interface that makes it easier to use.
Through Hamilton Digital Media, he develops the Toolbox family of calculator sites for pools, brewing, aquariums, lawns, cycling, RVing, soap making, and sports betting. His role is to build the software and explain the calculations, drawing on his engineering and modelling background.
Explore Brian's practical toolsApproach
How Brian thinks about puzzle pages.
- A puzzle should have clear rules before it asks for clever reasoning.
- Difficulty should come from logic, not from confusing controls.
- Solving tools should teach players what changed and why.
- Mobile puzzle pages need to feel as natural as paper, not like a compromised desktop page.
- A good puzzle site should be useful beyond a single play session.
Family and play
Classic puzzle thinking, rebuilt for modern screens.
Brian sees the puzzle network as a way to bring the feel of classic puzzle books, paper grids, and quiet problem-solving moments into modern browser and mobile formats. As a grandparent, he also cares about younger players discovering logic games that are calm, constructive, and genuinely satisfying to solve.
That is why the work often sits between engineering and editorial judgement: a puzzle page needs correct logic, but it also needs clear controls, fair progression, and explanations that respect the player.
Published work
Projects connected to Brian's puzzle work.
puzzle-workout.com
Puzzle Workout
Five quick daily puzzles for memory, attention, logic, numbers, and spatial thinking.
detective-puzzles.com
Detective Puzzles
Free mystery, logic, word, and codebreaking games built around fair clues.
print-puzzles.com
Print Puzzles
Custom printable puzzle worksheets with answer keys and classroom-friendly options.
Across the network
Brian's work supports the games people actually play.
You may see Brian credited on sudoku guides, puzzle tools, app pages, and project notes around the Hamilton Digital Media network. His role is often the part players only notice when it works well: the board responds cleanly, the solver explains the next step, the generator creates a fair puzzle, and the page behaves properly on the device in front of them.
This profile brings together the broader background behind that work: long-term development experience, mathematical modelling, a practical interest in logic and strategy games, and the tools Brian builds both within and beyond the puzzle network.