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Make Your Own Puzzle

This will require a laptop or desktop computer, but little to no knowledge of coding!

  1. The following templates make different sized puzzles. Open whichever size you would like.
    15 x 15 puzzle
    25 x 25 puzzle
    35 x 35 puzzle
    45 x 45 puzzle
    After opening, right click on the webpage, then click View Page Source. This gets you the code to the webpage.
  2. Select and copy all of the code to a clipboard. Paste it into a text or code editor (I recommend something like your computer's default Notepad. This will retain the formatting of the code better than something like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. A code editor like Brackets would also work!)
  3. Scroll into the code until you find //CATEGORIES HERE (line 92). This won't be too far down. You will see several blank templates that say:

//cats [""] = ["","",""..."","",""];

  1. Delete the // before the word 'cats'. Do not delete the // before the numbers. Enter your first category name. This will go in the brackets directly after 'cats.' Then fill in the accompanying words to the categories in the following quotation marks. For example, if my category was Fruits, then my code would look like this:

cats ["Fruits'] = ["Apple","Banana","Peach","Strawberry"...];

Be sure that your text is between a set of quotation marks!

  1. Continue this process until all categories are filled out.
  2. Save your work as an HTML file (your computer may default to a .txt file. Make sure it saves as .html). Check your work by opening your HTML file (right click on the file and click Open). It should open as a local file on your computer. This will allow you to check for duplicate words, and lets you see how your puzzle turned out!
  3. If you have your own website or hosting service, just upload your puzzle and you're done! If you do not have anywhere to host your puzzle, send it to me! I realized that some people who make a puzzle may not have a place to host it, so that's why I made this website. This will be a home for all of those puzzles, free to be played by anyone!

I'm not sure how many puzzles I'll actually end up receiving. But I wanted to have a place ready for them just in case. I love puzzles. And sorting. Let's puzzle together.