Designed by Greg Parker, the man behind one of the success stories in Australian crossword publishing, The Puzzle Wizard, has been compiling crosswords for as long as he can remember. His vision for a home-based operation to produce a magazine of high-quality crosswords with an Australian point of view came to him after the advent of desktop publishing.

After years of planning, The Puzzle Wizard published its first quarterly World of Crosswords magazine in August 1999 and, over eight years later, the publication flourishes in a crowded puzzle magazine market.