Beginner trying to make puzzles

[Merdock]

Hello Merdock,

it's nice to hear that someone actually reads the "Instruction for setting puzzles" page before setting puzzles
The link sends you to an HTML tutorial outside of logic-masters.de, but it seems like to be outdated. You can search for "HTML tutorial" or similar to find some pages with the same content (e.g. https://www.w3schools.com/html/). But for the beginning, it should be enough to just enter the instructions as plain text and add an image via "<img:xxxx>" as described in the "Instruction for setting puzzles" page. If you want to do more (like adding a link or a clickable button), you could search for the feature (like "HTML Link" or "HTML button") to find the correct syntax online.

For unique solutions, I recommend that you go through your puzzle thoroughly to check that every step could indeed be done as intended. You could also ask some other people to testsolve your puzzle and check for uniqueness (this is e.g. done for official competitions, to ensure nothing is missed). For sudokus (including a few variants), there are some solvers online that could be used for verifying uniqueness as well. But keep in mind that these do only check uniqueness and not whether the intended solving path is correct or not!

Thanks for the reply. I ended up using sudokumaker to help set up the rough puzzle and then fine-tuned it from there. I have ran through it a few times, and I think it both has a unique solution and plays the way I want it to. I could be wrong, I have looked at it too much, so in a couple of hours I'll probably make another post to see if someone would be willing to play test it for me. Hopefully it both has a unique solution and is fun to solve