Background
Thomas Snyder grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo, New New York
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He attended Amherst Central High School before getting chemistry degrees from the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University and doing post-doctoral work at Stanford University"s bioengineering department.
Career
He writes a puzzle blog as Doctor Sudoku. Thomas Snyder has contributed puzzles to various puzzle-related publications including GAMES Magazine and Wired. He has also written puzzles for events including the World Sudoku Championship, Puzzle Championship, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, General Con, and the Microsoft Puzzle Picnic.
In early 2012, Snyder began his publishing company Grandmaster Puzzles.
On April 9, 2012, he began selling his first title from the newly formed company, The Art of Sudoku. On December 31, 2012, Snyder began the newest version of his puzzle blog The Art of Puzzles coinciding with the relaunch of his Grandmaster Puzzles web site.
Snyder represented the United States in the World Puzzle Championship, held in Beijing in October 2013, along with teammates Palmer Mebane, Jonathan Rivet, and William Blatt.
