Creating Puzzles
Click on Puzzles in the command line. You will find Puzzles between Chat and Joseki.
Or if you use the new navigation bar: go to Learn and click on Puzzles.
You are directed to a page, where you see a blue button named My puzzles.
If you click on it, you will arrive on your personal puzzles page. This is the place, where the actual puzzle creating process starts.
If you are new to creating puzzles, you will have to create a collection. Type the name, that you want to give to your collection, and press okay.
Or you can click on a collection, that you already created in an earlier session. You arrive on a page where you see your puzzles.
You see three settings:
- Private: if you don't click on this, your collection will only be accessible to the players you grant access. Click on Access and give in the names, group(s), that you want to grant access. If you unclick Private, your collection will be open for all the OGS players.
- Color transform enabled and Position transform enabled speak for themselves.
If you want to create a new puzzle, click on New puzzle. You will come to the pages, where you actually create your puzzle. That page looks like this.
This is the page, where you see a goban, and where you can click on coordinates to enter the set up of your puzzle. First, you give the puzzle a name of at least 5 letters and or numerals. Examples: Puzzle 1, Problem 17, Question 1, etc.). If you don't do this, you are stuck on this page, and then you can't proceed to the Moves page, where you enter the solution. When you want to edit a puzzle, that you already entered in your collection, you arrive at this page.
Via the following navigation bar, you can edit your puzzle. Click on the pencil.
If you click on the pencil you will arrive on the next page, where you can alter things.
The next steps are:
- choose what kind of puzzle it is.
- choose the board size.
- choose the level of the puzzle.
If you click on Next, you arrive at the Moves page, where you enter the solution.
This page looks like this.
Here you enter the solution by clicking on the desired coordinates. As an extra, you can also add some text (per move) and extra options, as is shown in the diagram below.
- Black/white: change color of stones you want to enter in the solution.
- A: place a letter (in alphabetical order) on a coordinate. This can be an empty coordinate or a coordinate with a stone on it. Clicking again removes the letter.
- 1: mutatis mutandis the same as the previous option.
- triangle: mutatis mutandis the same as the previous option.
- square: mutatis mutandis the same as the previous option.
- circle: mutatis mutandis the same as the previous option.
- x: mutatis mutandis the same as the previous option.
- garbage can: if you click on a stone and after that the garbage can that stone (and all moves following it) will be deleted.
When you have added the solution, and the cursor is on the last added stone, click on Correct Answer.
Or if you want to add a variation, that doesn't work: Wrong Answer.
- merging puzzle collection is not possible, but you can move a puzzle to another collection. You can save it (in the edit mode) to the desired other collection. This can only be done on the puzzle level (not possible for a complete collection though).
- the maximum number of puzzle collections, that you can create, is 96. If that isn't enough, contact Anoek.
- please don't enter nonsensical puzzles. The Puzzles section is already diluted.
- please fill in as much info as possible. Especially Level, text (Black to play), are appreciated by puzzle solvers. Personally I appreciate it if Black move mode=Automatic. So that if you really are stuck, you can get some help by pressing Hint.
- if you have questions about creating puzzles, feel free to PM me.