Joli Quentin Kansil

His most famous game was probably Bridgette, a two-player version of bridge game. He had worked as a teacher in Hawaii, Thailand, Vietnam, and Singapore. He was the author of the 1979 The Backgammon Quiz Book, was the editor of the 1999 Official Rules of Card Games, wrote many crossword puzzles for The New York Times, and he was the backgammon editor for Games magazine between 1978 and 1983. Famous bridge player Oswald Jacoby called him "the best combination game inventor/game player in the world." He died in 2023 in Manila in the Philippines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joli_Quentin_Kansil