Chris Maslanka
| Chris Maslanka | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 October 1954 (age 71) London |
| 💼 Occupation | British puzzle designer |
Christopher M. Maslanka (born 27 October 1954) is a British writer and broadcaster, specialising in puzzles and problem solving.
He was invited by Alan Rusbridger to submit puzzles to Weekend Guardian and his two puzzle columns, Wordplay and Pyrgic Puzzles, have appeared in the Saturday edition of the newspaper for 20 years. Maslanka is also the quizmaster for New Humanist magazine.[1]
A book interview with David Freeman at BBC Radio Oxford led to Maslanka's contributing anecdotes and puzzles to many programmes, and in 1992–3 he co-hosted the Saturday afternoon show PDQ 95.2 with Andrew Peach. He was also invited by the World Service to broadcast his humorous puzzle anecdotes to the hostages during the Gulf War.
Maslanka designed the puzzles for Harry Horse's 1996 computer game, Drowned God.[2]
He presented the BBC Radio 4 programme Puzzle Panel which was broadcast between 1998 and 2005.[3]
He has retained his association with St Catherine's College, Oxford, who have created a special post for him, that of a "College Enigmatist".[4]
In 2018, he presented a radio series for BBC Radio 4 on the history of puzzling, entitled Two Thousand Years of Puzzling.[5]
Bibliography
- Christopher Maslanka: The Pyrgic Puzzler: Classic Conundrums, 1987, Kingswood. ISBN 0-434-98075-7 Search this book on
. - Christopher Maslanka: Professor Percival Pinkerton's Most Perplexing Puzzles, 1989, Meadowbrook Press. ISBN 0-88166-155-4 Search this book on .
- Christopher Maslanka: Guardian Book of Puzzles, 1990, Fourth Estate Ltd. ISBN 1-872180-72-8 Search this book on .
- Christopher Maslanka: Mind Olympics, 1993, The Puzzle Club. ISBN 1-897994-00-1 Search this book on .
- Christopher Maslanka: The Little Book of Puzzles, 1995, The Puzzle Club. ISBN 0-9527456-0-7 Search this book on .
- Christopher Maslanka: The Pyrgic Puzzler: Classic Conundrums, 2011, Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-48453-2 Search this book on .
References
- ↑ "Chris Maslanka". New Humanist. Rationalist Association. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages Credits". MobyGames. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 Extra: Puzzle Panel". BBC Online. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Chris Maslanka - College Enigmatist". Archived from the original on 2011-01-11. Retrieved April 13, 2015. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Two Thousand Years of Puzzling". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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