Miscellaneous

Objective

Learn how to manage miscellaneous settings for a puzzle.

Publication schedule

PuzzleMe allows you to schedule the publication of your games.

Behavior & Embedding method

If you're embedding puzzles directly (without the series picker), then the visitors to your website will see a 404 error message if they try to access the puzzle before it has been published. Once the publication time has arrived, the puzzle will function normally.

A page with a puzzle embed. This is the view before the publication time has arrived.
PuzzleMe throws a 404 error in this case.

If you're using the series picker for a set of puzzles, then the puzzle will become visible automatically inside the series picker at the scheduled time of publication. Before publication time, the puzzle will remain invisible from the series picker.

Steps

Setting the publication time for your puzzle

1. Go to the PuzzleMe dashboard.
2. Find the game and click the "Edit Game" button next to it to enter the game editor mode.
3. In the game editor mode, inside the Settings tab, locate the "Publication settings" panel.
4. Update the Date and Time input field with your desired values.
5. Select your desired option from the "Timezone" dropdown.
6. Click the "Update Game" button at the bottom of the page.

info

The game editor allows you to schedule the publication of puzzles in a variety of time zones.

However, the dashboard view translates all the publication times into the UTC timezone for display. This is simply to maintain a consistent view of the publication time.

If you'd like to change the time zone that is used for the dashboard to your local time zone, please contact the PuzzleMe team.