Wei-Hwa Huang (born August 4, 1975 in Eugene, Oregon)^[1] is an American puzzler, member of the US Team for the World Puzzle Championship,^[2] and game designer.^[3]

Huang was a member of the United States International Math Olympiad team in 1992 and 1993, where he was awarded a Silver Medal both years. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1993.^[4] Huang has won the annual World Puzzle Championship on four occasions: 1995 and 1997–1999.^[5][6] He also won the 2008 Sudoku National Championship.^[7] With team Left Out, he won the 2019 MIT Mystery Hunt.^[8]

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 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.^[9]

Huang graduated from Montgomery Blair High School^[10] and the California Institute of Technology^[11] and was an employee at Google until July 2008.^[12] 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.^[13]

Huang submitted a crossword puzzle to The New York Times newspaper which was published on Tuesday, September 10, 2002.^[14] In 2012, Huang co-authored a book with Will Shortz, the editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle.^[15]

Huang is an investor and co-producer of the Broadway musical The Lightning Thief.^[16]