Christy Davis is a CEO, Certified Professional Résumé Writer (CPRW), Notary Public, author, speaker, and amateur photographer.  She has also been creating word puzzles for almost twenty years.  She has authored successful puzzle books, including go!games Super Colossal Book of Word Search: 365 Great Puzzles, Puzzle Workouts Word Search Book One, Puzzle Workouts Word Search Book Two, Puzzle Workouts Word Search Book Three, Puzzle Workouts Word Search Book Four, and Puzzle Workouts Word Search Book Five.

Christy partnered with her longtime associate, Terry Stickels on numerous puzzle projects and not only designed many of his puzzles, but also contributed her own creations in books ranging from word puzzles to spatial/visual puzzles.  Christy co-authored eight Word Search calendars, go!games The Word Search Challenge, go!games Absolutely Addictive Word Search, and Puzzle Workouts Word Search Book Six with Mr. Stickels.

Says Stickels, “I have never met anyone who has the gifts Christy has. She is a master puzzle creator. She designs my spatial/puzzles one day and creates her own Word Search the next. She has become one of the best puzzle creators in America and I could not do what I have done without her input. Her genius is now legendary among publishers worldwide.”

What others say about Christy:

Be warned: My Grandma calls it "HIGHLY ADDICTIVE!"

I bought this {go!games Super Colossal Book of Word Search: 365 Great Puzzles} for my 85-year-old Grandma for Christmas. This and yarn. Boring, right? Wrong. My grandma is generally not that excitable, but I swear to you she went on for 10+ minutes talking about how amazing this word find is. She loves the themes and called it highly addictive, causing her to neglect housework and even stay up until midnight once circling away. It definitely was a little more expensive than some of the others out there, but according to my grandma, it's well worth your money!!

Big book, fun word searches

Great book FILLED with word searches. Sometimes you don’t want a number game, or logic puzzle, or crossword clues- you just want a good game to while away your time. Word searches do that for me. They help me unwind and I can pick them up, sit them back down, and pick them up later without issues of continuity.

A terrific assortment of word search puzzles that will make a great surprise gift for my word search loving sister-in-law.

 Author and speaker Terry Stickels has dedicated his life to the pursuit of helping people improve their mental flexibility and creative problem-solving skills—and making it fun. His books, calendars, card decks, and newspaper columns are filled with clever and challenging puzzles that stretch the minds of even the best thinkers.

Terry is well known for his two nationally-syndicated columns.  FRAME GAMES, which appeared in USA WEEKEND magazine, and was read by over 48,000,000 people in 600 newspapers weekly. He concurrently wrote STICKELERS (sic), a puzzle column published daily by King Features, which appeared in some of the largest newspapers in America such as The Washington Post, The Chicago-Sun Times, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, to name a few.  You may also have seen his puzzles on the back of Kellogg’s Raisin Bran or on a Universal Studios website featuring a movie such as A Beautiful Mind, where he created the most famous IQ quiz in internet history. That success was followed in turn by three books requested by the high I.Q. society MENSA. 

Terry is also a highly popular public speaker. His keynote addresses are fast paced, humorous looks at the ability (and sometimes lack thereof) to think clearly. Using puzzles as mental warm-ups, he immediately engages his audience in interactive fun as he guides them to self-discover the hidden power of their minds. Soon it becomes clear that it isn’t as difficult as one may have guessed to augment those powers . . . and have a good time doing it.

After years of creating puzzles, Terry was asked to write a weekly puzzle column for a twelve-newspaper syndicate in Rochester, New York. After two years, his puzzles caught the eye of Sterling Publishing in New York, and his first book MINDSTRETCHING PUZZLES became an immediate hit and is still selling well to this day.  Twenty-five more puzzle books followed, all dedicated to having fun while exploring the powers of the mind.  His FRAME GAMES puzzles are used by the Alzheimers Association of North America as their “puzzle of choice” for their promotional materials which encourage solving puzzles to keep a healthy, flexible mind.  And New York Times crossword editor Will Shorts uses Terry’s mathematical puzzles on his popular Weekend Edition radio show heard on National Public Radio.

Not only are Terry’s books used for enjoyment worldwide, such austere bodies as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics praise his work as an important aid in assisting students to learn how to think critically.