Who · how · why
Fictional figures. Real editorial accountability.
The cabinet members are characters, not invented humans with invented résumés. Their personalities make Puzzlewick more useful and more fun. The trust comes from a real editor, a disclosed process, inspectable evidence, and a body of work that grows every day.
Robert Pruitt
Founder & Editorial Director · 35 years around the table
Robert Pruitt has spent 35 years playing, teaching, collecting and writing about games. He is a lifetime Magic: The Gathering player and tournament player, a partner in a card game store in Thailand, and a board-game collector who buys the expansions, sleeves every card, prints his own inserts and never plays without a playmat. For nine years he has split each year between his home in Dallas, Texas and Thailand, with friends and contacts across the tabletop scene in Asia, Canada and the United States. He owns and plays nearly every game and accessory Puzzlewick recommends, directs its research, owns its corrections, and reviews every certified guide.
- 35 years of tabletop gameplay, teaching, collecting, and buying experience
- Lifetime Magic: The Gathering player and tournament player; keeps his decks current with singles
- Partner in a card game store in Thailand; experience working in game shops and helping players choose and learn games
- Nine years living between Dallas, Texas and Thailand, with relationships across the tabletop community in Asia, Canada and the United States
- Owns and plays nearly every game and accessory Puzzlewick recommends: full expansion sets, collector and booster boxes, sleeves, deck boxes, carrying cases, playmats
- 3D-prints box inserts, location trays and deck cases for his own collection
- Participant in gaming podcasts and decades of article and community discussion
- Founder & editorial director of Puzzlewick
- Works as a technical recruiter and an AI instructor outside the tabletop industry
These biographical details are first-party statements from Robert. Historical game-shop, podcast, and article references are linked only when a stable public record is available; Puzzlewick does not invent supporting credits.
AI-assisted cabinet portrait · not documentary photography How a fictional figure earns real authority
The output is the credential.
Yumi does not become credible because a biography says she grew up in a stationery shop. She becomes useful when the work published through her consistently solves first-session friction, cites the correct rulebook, distinguishes editions, shows the box and components, and tells a newcomer what to buy without hiding the catch. The same standard applies to every member of the cabinet.
Each lens below is rooted in Robert's lived experience and assigned a repeatable research method. Its growing body of cited work, correction history, and reader usefulness are the only credentials Puzzlewick claims for the fictional figure.
Credential rules we will not bend
No invented degree, employer, award, publication, podcast, convention role, ownership claim, or years of experience.
No cabinet figure is modeled as a real influencer or used to imply that person reviewed or endorsed Puzzlewick.
Generated scenes create atmosphere. They are not documentary proof that a curator physically tested a product.
Rules, manuals, official contents, exact products, independent reviews, and community patterns support the recommendation.
The human author and editor is visible in the byline, structured data, About page, methodology, and correction process.
When a public URL exists for a podcast, article, profile, or appearance, it can be attached to the record. If it cannot be checked, we do not embellish it.
The restraint is part of the credential
Research can be assisted. Publication is a human decision.
Puzzlewick's calendar does not auto-publish. Robert decides whether a page earns certification, whether an existing guide should be improved instead, and whether a claim can honestly be presented as firsthand experience. Finished drafts can remain private when they duplicate an answer, lack distinctive evidence, or do not yet justify another indexable URL.
Public biographical claims are first-party unless a stable independent record is linked. As documentary photographs, bylined appearances, event records, and other checkable work are added, Puzzlewick will connect them to the real founder record rather than transfer that authority to its fictional curator characters.
