Education
California Institute of Technology.
黃煒華
California Institute of Technology.
He was a Putnam Fellow in 1993. With Tom Lehmann, Huang designed the board game Roll for the Galaxy released in 2014 by Rio Grande Games. Roll for the Galaxy is a dice-based adaption of the award-winning card game Race for the Galaxy with deck-building mechanics.
Huang and Lehmann also designed an Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition, an expansion released in 2015.
Roll for the Galaxy was nominated for three Golden Geek Awards and an International Gamers Award. Huang graduated from Montgomery Blair High School and the California Institute of Technology and was an employee at Google until July 2008.
One of his most famous projects was the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google, which was a set of 24 puzzles launched on April 17, 2006 in cooperation with Columbia Pictures. Huang submitted a crossword puzzle to the New York Times newspaper which was published on Tuesday, September 10, 2002.
In 2012, Huang co-authored a book with Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle.