

This ensures that the time spent entering in information is not added to the puzzle solving time.Īdvanced options should be used only by users who are familiar with the PuzzleMe platform. If these user details are requested for a puzzle in contest mode, the user is prompted to fill this information in only after submission, and not at the beginning of the puzzle.

You can find the entered information in the play-by-play section of the puzzle's analytics page (which you can access via your dashboard).įor example, the link you embed could be something like. So the answers cannot be seen even by someone who can look at the internals of the web page in their browser.Īppend the parameters &name=1, &email=1 and &mobile=1 to the puzzle's URL (within its embed code) to prompt the user to enter their name and/or email address and/or mobile number. PuzzleMe's contest mode ensures the correct answers are stored only on the server, and never sent to the browser. The user will have to manually submit their play once they finish, and every play can be submitted exactly once. The date & time and timezone set for the publication time is used to control when the puzzle goes live.Ī user who tries to access the puzzle before it goes live will see an error page.Įnabling contest mode disables all help and reveal features. You can find additional puzzle creation and management help here. Avoid answers that are just two letters long.įor a word flower, you can enter the words to be found by the user in the form. Avoid or split up excessively long answers (more than 12 characters). Avoid answers that are just two letters long.įor a kriss kross, 15 answers typically lead to a well connected 15x15 layout. If no value is provided, the default score will be taken from the Points (For a correct answer) field which can be found in the Scoring panel in Settingsįor a word search, 15 answers typically lead to a well connected 15x15 layout. User input is not case-sensitive.Įach question can be assigned a score. The user will be provided an input area to type in the correct answer. Please provide the variants in the following format:Ĭorrect answer 1st variant of correct answer 2nd variant and so on.įor example: "Macintosh Mac" indicates that "Macintosh" is the correct answer, but "Mac" is an acceptable variant. Multiple variants of the correct answer can be specified. The text provided in the first option field will be considered as the correct answer. Only the first option should be provided to use the free-form format. The options will be presented to the user in a random order. You can provide a maximum of 3 incorrect options.Ī maximum of four options will be presented to the user and only one of them is the correct answer. The first option provided in the form must be the correct answer.

For a quiz, we support the following types of questions:
