Electronic multimedia puzzle

1. A system for operating an interactive electronic multimedia puzzle, comprising:

a puzzle generation engine comprising at least a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a computing device and configured to:

load a plurality of multimedia content from a plurality of content sources, the multimedia content comprising at least visual content, the visual content being drawn from one or more of the set of video, image, and text;

divide at least a portion of the multimedia content into a plurality of segments;

associate at least a portion of the plurality of content segments with at least a portion of a plurality of puzzle tiles;

present at least a portion of the plurality of puzzle tiles for interaction by a human user;

receive a plurality of user interaction; and

direct a rearrangement of puzzle tiles for presentation to a user, the rearrangement being based at least in part on at least a portion of the user interaction;

wherein, for each tile of at least a subset of the tiles, a visual portion of the multimedia content of the respective tile is obfuscated using a plurality of transformations that effectively reduce utility of each affected tile's obfuscated media for solving the puzzle.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of content sources comprise at least a local storage operating on the computing device.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of content sources comprise at least a hosted content provider accessible via a network.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein a user is prompted to provide multimedia content for use in puzzle generation.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein, successful solution of a multimedia puzzle leads to a plurality of possible items being displayed to the human user, one of which being a plurality of further information about the multimedia content used in the just-solved puzzle.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein at least a portion of the visual content comprises a plurality of graphic design content.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein at least a portion of the visual content comprises a plurality of photographic content.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein at least a portion of the visual content comprises video content which is then divided by visible image, by time offset within clip or both.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the visual content comprises a body of text.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the content segments are obfuscated using electronic processing.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the obfuscated content segments are reverted to their original form based at least in part on user interaction.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one tile from the plurality of puzzle tiles is associated with at least one of each of: an obfuscated audio content type, an obfuscated visual content type, and a non-obfuscated visual content type.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one tile from the plurality of puzzle tiles comprises two or more partially-obfuscated visual content segments.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one tile from the plurality of puzzle tiles comprises two or more partially-obfuscated multimedia content segments.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the multimedia content further comprises audio content.

16. A method for operating an interactive electronic multimedia puzzle, comprising the steps of:

loading, at a puzzle generation engine comprising at least a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a computing device and configured to load a plurality of multimedia content from a plurality of content sources, a plurality of multimedia content, the multimedia content comprising at least visual content, the visual content being drawn from one or more of the set of video, image, and text;

dividing at least a portion of the loaded content into a plurality of content segments;

associating at least a portion of the content segments with a plurality of puzzle tiles;

obfuscating, for each tile of at least a subset of the tiles, at least some of the visual content of the multimedia content of the respective tile using a plurality of transformations that effectively reduce utility of each affected tile's obfuscated media for solving the puzzle;

arranging at least a portion of the plurality of puzzle tiles; and

presenting at least a portion of the arranged tiles to a human user.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising the steps of:

receiving a plurality of interaction from the user;

rearranging at least a portion of the plurality of presented tiles based at least in part on at least a portion of the user interaction; and

presenting the rearranged tiles to the user.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein at least one tile from the plurality of puzzle tiles comprises two or more partially-obfuscated visual content segments.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein at least one tile from the plurality of puzzle tiles comprises two or more partially-obfuscated multimedia content segments.

20. The method of claim 16 , wherein the multimedia content further comprises audio content.