Puzz.com, LLC is both a web site and a licensed business in Webster Groves, Missouri (St. Louis City from 1998-Present), which is just a few miles west of St. Louis City, and is part of St. Louis County. The site's main features are puzzles & IQ tests of many types, along with online games and contests. We have been doing business on the internet since 1997 with the goals of entertaining, educating (or at least trying to demonstrate how education, learning, problem solving and thinking can be fun!), and promoting.
A few people have noticed us over the years. Puzz.com was listed in a July 16, 1998 article in The New York Times, an August 21, 1998 article in the St. Petersburg Times, reviewed in the October, 1998 issue of Fast Company Magazine, and appeared & was reviewed on Knowledge TV (4/11/99). Some of the puzzles & games written by Puzz.com's webmaster, Bill Bultas (aka "Bill Puzz"), have been published in various places (including Chimera's Conundrums in the August, 1998 issue of GAMES Magazine, where this site was also mentioned as being "a preeminent puzzle site") and/or have received awards (e.g. the Intelligence Test received a Pick of the Week award from HitBox.com). A 1999 review on Ask Yahoo! stated that Puzz.com is "One of the best sources we found for IQ
assessment." We regularly receive e-mails, calls and letters indicating that our material has been used in classrooms. Puzz.com has been an "assignment" in at least one text book.
At the time of this writing, Puzz.com consists of several hundred pages of material, & receives over 400,000 page views per month. New features are added regularly, including material by world famous puzzle author Terry Stickels.
A few other names in the "Puzz.com family of web sites":
AfreeB.com is a Puzz.com-owned site that lists and links freebies, bargains, contests, games & more in multiple categories, and has become increasingly popular. Kameeka Gerald, wife of Bill Puzz, runs AfreeB.com.
OnlineGamingZone.com, which is also Puzz.com-owned, lists, links and hosts dozens of totally free online games.
FreeDungeons.com is our "under construction" online RPG gaming project which now hosts a few items of interest. In time this site may host more unique content than Puzz.com itself (which is saying a lot about quantity, and hopefully quality...)!
AllIQTests.com - "Under construction" site that tens of thousands of dollars are being invested into. This will almost certainly be our most popular site once complete. It will be what Puzz.com always hoped to be.
AllNewsletters.com - We own the AllNewsletters.com domain, but not the site itself... you can subscribe to our 2 100% free Puzz.com e-mail newsletters on this site, plus some other cool newsletters. We have over 600,000 subscribers on our lists, and growing.
We previously ran the AssociateLeads.com and AssociateSales.com webmaster affiliate networks, which were very lucrative for us for years. Although we no longer administer such networks, webmasters can add our free content to their web pages. Unlike many other free content services, our interactive materials integrate seamlessly into your web pages.
2005 has been our most profitable year ever, primarily due to advertising run in our e-mail newsletters. A good portion of our profits are reinvested into the sites, and the Puzz.com sites will likely consist of thousands of pages of material in the coming years, most of which will continue to be focused on brain teasers and games. Stay tuned!