Over the past 26 years, Timothy E. Parker has created and/or edited over 20,100 crosswords, more than anyone in American crossword history. Timothy’s portfolio includes thousands of word search games, over 5,000 complete Trivia games, and over 54,000 various puzzle and word game units for over 1,450 clients.
Timothy’s work has gained him worldwide recognition and a Guinness World Record as “World’s Most Syndicated Puzzle Compiler.” The Le Monde in France and The South China Times are among the dozens of international publications that have published Timothy’s work.
His work has been published in over 80 countries including Canada, China, Great Britain, New Zealand, France, Turkey, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, South America, the Philippines and others.
Timothy’s massive portfolio includes producing fresh content for Microsoft, Warner Bros., Disney, Comcast, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Pat Sajak Games, ABC, Smithsonian Institute, Financial Web, Meriam-Webster, Arthritis Foundation, Reader’s Digest, New York Post, Time Warner, Toronto Star, Yahoo, Dallas Morning News, New York Post, Baltimore Sun, Newsday, Miama Herald, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, Atlanta Journal and hundreds many
more.
Moreover, Parker has purchased and owns all rights to more than $350,000 worth of crosswords from various members of the crossword community.
Timothy also gave out seven $1,000 crossword excellence awards to his best constructors. These monetary totals are believed to be the highest ever paid by a private crossword owner/collector/editor.
Franchises
Timothy E. Parker has founded over 2 dozen puzzle franchises including:
The Universal Crossword
The Puzzle Society
Puntastics Crosswords
Famous Crosswords
Slide N' Solve
Trivia Crosswords
High Stakes Trivia
Find 11 Word Search
Cryptogramia
Bible Crosswords
Inspirational Scramble
Maze Lab
Fast N' Easy Crosswords
Family Time Crosswords
Daily Tournament Crossword
Extremely Clever Crosswords
Nostalgia Crosswords
Stunnables Trivia
Timothy Parker Firsts
He is also their first creator of the "RD Challenge"
A.I. automatically adapts to a solver's ability and auto fills in portions of puzzles that help to gradually but effectively increase a player's skill level.
Timothy Parker’s Television Work
Merv Griffin, legenadary TV personality and creator of America’s top two favorite game shows, “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy,” called Timothy Parker “America’s best puzzle master by far.”
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 to be his puzzle producer.
Mr. Griffin flew Timothy Parker to his Beverly Hills office and worked with Parker to develop the show. Timothy single-handedly wrote all 225 episodes of the PROGRAM, over 16,000 clues, in four months.
griffin said parker was "the world's best"
While filming ABC’s “The Mole” in 2008, Scott Stone, the executive producer, used content from Timothy Parker on the primetime hit.
Games created by Timothy Parker have appeared on “The View,” “Access Hollywood,” “Entertainment Tonight” and in over 150 magazines.
CNN called Parker’s creations, “The Best. Smart games for smart people.”
Timothy Parker has written over 100 books
He co-authored the critically-acclaimed “The Book of Revelation Made Clear” in 2014
with the late Bible scholar Dr. Timothy LaHaye, and wrote the massive “Bible Brilliant” trivia and games book in 2016. He has authored several primers including The Official Book of Kakuro, and is the author of such works as
Brains Games for Dummies, Senior Crosswords for Dummies, Universal
Crosswords, Universal Crosswords II, Merv Griffin’s Crosswords, Volumes I, II,
and III, and Mastering Kakuro.
