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Creating a Word Flower Puzzle

Objective

Learn how to create a Word Flower puzzle on the PuzzleMe™ platform by defining letters and generating/adding valid words.

Word Flower puzzles challenge players to find words using a central letter and a surrounding set of letters.

Steps:

  1. From your dashboard, click the New Game button and then select Word Flower.
  2. In the "Create Word Flower" form, ensure the Content tab is selected.
  3. Enter a Game title.
  4. Select the Game language. This determines the dictionary used for the optional autofill feature.
  5. (Optional, but recommended) Enter a Slug, which is a unique identifier for the puzzle used in the URL and embed code. Using a meaningful slug name will help you track your embed codes better and will help avoid mixing up different puzzles. This can happen as you create more and more puzzles!
  6. In the Enter Letters section:
    • Enter 4, 6, or 8 unique Word Flower Letters (comma-separated). These are the outer letters.
    • Enter an optional Central Letter.
  7. Choose whether to Allow Repeatable Letters. If enabled, answer words can reuse any of the available letters (Central + Word Flower). If disabled, each letter can only be used once per word. The input letters themselves must always be unique.
  8. Optionally, click Autofill Entries to automatically populate the word list using the selected language's dictionary based on your chosen letters and the "Allow Repeatable Letters" setting.
    • Note: Autofill is not available for all languages.
    • Review the "Words Found" popup. Aim for a manageable number (e.g., under 60) for a good player experience. Adjust letters or the repeatable setting if needed.
    • The autofill feature generates words with minimum length 4, but you can manually add words of different lengths.
    • Click Confirm to add the found words or Cancel to adjust settings.
  9. In the Words section, review, add, or remove words:
    • Words found via Autofill will appear here. Words using all available letters (pangrams) are highlighted in bold.
    • Click Add another entry to manually add a word.
    • Optionally, add a Definition for any word. You can use an HTML link (<a href="...">link text</a>) for clickable definitions displayed after a word is found.
    • Click the Trash icon to remove a word.
  10. Click Create Game.