Picker features

Objective

Understand the capabilities every PuzzleMe picker type shares, regardless of layout.

Whichever picker type you pick, every picker shares these capabilities.

Browse multiple puzzles

Players can access and browse all published puzzles from a single page. This makes it easy for visitors to see what's available and choose which puzzle they want to play without navigating to multiple pages.

Scheduled publication

Puzzles scheduled from the dashboard automatically appear in the picker at the designated time. This means you can prepare puzzles in advance and have them go live automatically, without manually updating your website. Learn more about publication schedule.

Track progress across puzzles in a series

PuzzleMe supports progress tracking across puzzles within a series, enabled by default. Players can see which puzzles they've started or completed when they return to the picker, helping them pick up where they left off and come back to finish what they started.

The effectiveness of progress tracking depends on your embedding method and implementation. For technical details about how progress tracking works, implementation requirements, and best practices, see the User identity and progress tracking documentation in the Integration section.

Show completion picker

Want solvers to jump straight into another puzzle right from the completion pop-up? The Show completion picker setting adds a picker to the completion pop-up, letting users click any game in the view to open it.

Enterprise customization

For more advanced picker branding needs, Enterprise customers can work with our team to implement custom styling and functionality. If you're on our Enterprise plan and need additional picker customization beyond the standard settings, please contact our support team to discuss your specific requirements. We may be able to implement custom tweaks in the product backend to achieve your desired branding.

Here's an example of a custom list picker with font and color changes for the Guardian app:

Light theme on The Guardian

Dark theme

Here's a group picker with custom styling built for Merriam-Webster's "The Missing Letter":

Merriam-Webster's "The Missing Letter," using the group picker with custom styling