Mike Selinker is a game designer whose design credits include Pirates of the Spanish Main

Pirates of the Spanish Main

The Pirates Constructible Strategy Game is a tabletop game manufactured by WizKids, Inc., with aspects of both miniatures and collectible card genres. Pirates of the Spanish Main is the world's first "constructible strategy game," referring to the mechanics of creating game pieces from components...

 and Fightball

Fightball

Fightball is a real-time card game designed by James Ernest and Mike Selinker and published by Cheapass Games in 2002. Fightball is the third real-time card game published by Cheapass Games, following the success of Falling and Brawl....

 with James Ernest

James Ernest

James Ernest is an American game designer and juggler. He is best known as the owner and lead designer of Cheapass Games. Prior to founding Cheapass, he worked as a juggler at various venues, including Camlann Medieval Village, and as a freelancer with Wizards of the Coast. He also worked for...

, Axis & Allies Revised Edition with Larry Harris

Larry Harris (game designer)

Larry Harris, Jr., is a game designer most famous for creating the board game Axis & Allies, as well as all of its sequels. His other significant games include Conquest of the Empire, Broadsides and Boarding Parties, LionHeart and more. He has also assisted in the further development of Trivial...

, the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, and Risk Godstorm

Risk Godstorm

Risk Godstorm is a Risk variant board game published by Avalon Hill and designed by Mike Selinker with developers Richard Baker and Michael Donais. The cultures of the Celts, Norse, Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians clash for supremacy of the ancient world. Players invade territories, play miracle...

. He was a creative director for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

 and the Harry Potter Trading Card Game

Harry Potter Trading Card Game

The Harry Potter Trading Card Game, is a strategy and collectible card game based in the magical world of the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling. Created by Wizards of the Coast in August 2001, the game was designed to compete with the Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering card games...

. As a puzzle

Puzzle

A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. In a basic puzzle, one is intended to put together pieces in a logical way in order to come up with the desired solution...

 maker, he created the fictional police officer Lt. Nodumbo

Lt. Nodumbo

Lt. Nodumbo is a fictional police lieutenant in Mike Selinker's annual feature of GAMES World of Puzzles who solicits the solver's help in solving puzzle mysteries for the Logological Crimes Division...

 for GAMES World of Puzzles

GAMES World of Puzzles

Games World of Puzzles is a puzzle magazine published bimonthly by Games Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. It is a spinoff of Games magazine focusing solely on pencil puzzles. A centerpiece section contains a feature puzzle or puzzles, such as puzzles from the World Puzzle...

. He is a founder of the Lone Shark Games design studio with James Ernest, LIVE/WIRE with Tim Beach, and the Maze of Games

Maze of Games

The Maze of Games is one of America's largest annual puzzlehunts, and is held at the Gen Con and Origins gaming conventions. Started in 1995 as an offshoot of LIVE/WIRE, the Maze of Games has been the largest event at one or both of those conventions every year since. It is created by game...

 with Teeuwynn Woodruff. He also has written poker

Poker

Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

 books such as Dealer's Choice: The Complete Handbook of Saturday Night Poker, with James Ernest and Phil Foglio

Phil Foglio

Philip "Phil" Foglio is an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy work.-Early life and career:...

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Selinker won three 2004 Origins Awards for Pirates, Axis & Allies: D-Day, and Betrayal at House on the Hill

Betrayal at House on the Hill

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game published by Avalon Hill. Players all begin as allies, exploring a haunted house filled with dangers, traps, items and Omens...

. His game Alpha Blitz

Alpha Blitz

Alpha Blitz is a word game designed by Mike Selinker and published by Wizards of the Coast. Alpha Blitz is based on the concept of a letter bank, as players make words using the letter cards on the table as many times as they like...

 was Games Magazine

GAMES Magazine

Games magazine is a United States magazine devoted to games and puzzles, and is published by Games Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group.-History:...

s 1998 Word Game

Word game

Word games and puzzles are spoken or board games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties.Word games are generally engaged as a source of entertainment, but have been found to serve an educational purpose as well...

of the Year.

External links

• Pen & Paper listing for Mike Selinker