CUS (puzzle author)

CUS (* before 1990 in Bavaria ) is a German puzzle author .

Life

CUS is a pseudonym , the identity of his person is not publicly known. He is a lawyer and lives in the Munich area . The letters CUS are the initials of his real name. CUS maintains the secret of his person. In published photos or on television, CUS can only be seen with black glasses, or even only its shadow.

CUS puzzle

Since 1990 CUS has been a professional writer of difficult to solve puzzles. The big puzzle race in the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , of which the sole author had been CUS since 1996, took place every summer from 1990 to 2007.

In January 1994, the puzzle author MZ and CUS started their first nationwide treasure hunt in the gold dictionary of the Langenscheidt publishing house. In the gold dictionary, 22 regular headwords had been replaced by fairly tough puzzle nuts. It took until October 17, 1994 for two computer experts from Wiesbaden to lift the treasure.

Famous CUS puzzles were also the GEO millennium puzzle, puzzles for the ZDF series IQ-Denksport , the treasure marathon for ProSieben , the Knobel Prize since 2004 for BR-alpha , for Playboy , Westdeutscher Rundfunk , the Stern and the large Folio Puzzles on the subject of Switzerland for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . CUS is also the author of the difficult crossword puzzle for the SZ magazine Das Kreuz mit dem Wort .

From 2008 to January 2013, CUS asked a question every week in the online offer of the science program Faszination Wissen on Bavarian television .

Since 2010 he has been creating an annual summer puzzle for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . It's about city walks in Munich and, since 2011, in the Munich area.

In 2012, together with Marc Ritter , he published a series of twelve e-books with mystery thrillers under the title Transalp at Knaur Verlag .

For Faszination Wissen , CUS designed a summer puzzle in 2013 that will take you on a virtual trip across Bavaria for three weeks.

Works

• Quiz me, Amadeus! The great Mozart riddle . Heyne, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-12039-6 .
• What happened here? The best puzzle stories . Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-68503-2 .
• The coup, the cow, the Q. The most amazing German book of all time . Eichborn, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-6015-2 .
• The strange lexicon of the German language . Eichborn, Frankfurt / M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-6061-9 .
• What happened here? Volume 2

Web links

• Literature by and about CUS in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rätselrennen 2004 ( Memento from August 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• The cross with the words
• CUS puzzle for the fascination of knowledge ( Memento from March 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• BR-Alpha: Interview with CUS in the alpha forum , 2008
• The big folio riddle
• The solution to the folio riddle
• Summer puzzle 2013 for the fascination of knowledge

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knaur: CUS