Roderick was born in BC, making him either ridiculously old, or simply Canadian. In his youth, Roderick was sometimes spotted on the slow end of a soccer pitch but more often on the fast end of a chess board. (Surely you've heard of the notorious Kimball maneuver, in which one opens a chess match by flipping the king's pawn into the air such that it lands, butter side up, on the king's fourth rank.) A curious child, Roderick once temporarily blinded himself by connecting his top and bottom braces with a 9-volt battery. Roderick has created puzzles for the National Museum of Mathematics, Games Magazine, Reader's Digest Canada, NPR's Ask Me Another and for his own amusement. In the other half of his life, Roderick has toured the world juggling with the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He also recently returned from Kenya, where he was sent by Engineers Without Borders to help folks with improving their water supply. He is proud to say that his ancestry includes two very great grandmothers who were executed as witches and he once made bottled water come out Rosie O'Donnell's nose.
"""Path Puzzles are a fresh alternative to Sudoku."" -The New York Times, 'Number Play' ""Path Puzzles push all the right buttons in your brain."" - John Chaneski, NPR's Ask Me Another Puzzle Guru ""Path Puzzles provides original challenges that test your spatial and logical problem solving skills. Sharpen your pencil and your mind!"" - George Hart, Mathematical Sculptor and Puzzle Creator ""Like many of the best puzzle types, Path Puzzles have a simple, intuitive set of rules -- and like many of the best puzzle constructors, Roderick Kimball keeps finding new ways to make those rules work together to challenge solvers. I enjoyed this book a great deal."" - Francis Heaney, Author of Sudoku in Space and Brain Games for Word Nerds ""Brilliant and addicting! As quick and easy as it is to learn how to solve Path Puzzles -- that's how hard it is to put the book down once you start working through it. Just when you think you're starting to master them, then come the encrypted puzzles -- the most fun of all! If you're into any kind of puzzle-solving, quit reading these reviews and buy the book already -- you won't be sorry!"" -Review by customer Ted C"