Complete User Guide

A step-by-step walkthrough for first-time users.

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Create a free account with your email and password. No credit card required. Your Starter plan includes 1,000 credits and access to all basic puzzle types.

Pro tip: Pro and Studio plans add AI content generation and advanced puzzle types.

Pick a Puzzle Type

From the Dashboard, click any puzzle type card to open its Builder. Each type has its own settings, live preview, and generation controls.

Pro tip: The Dashboard sorts puzzles by tier: Basic (Starter), Advanced (Pro), and Premium (Studio).

Set Up Your Puzzle

In the Puzzle Settings tab, set up your puzzle. Choose AI Generated or Custom Words for your word source. Set the theme, age range, difficulty, grid size, and other options for that puzzle type. The live preview on the right updates as you change settings.

Pro tip: AI word generation (Pro and Studio) creates themed word lists right away. Custom Words lets you paste or type your own list on any plan.

Generate Pages

At the bottom of the left panel, set how many pages to generate and click the Generate button. Pages appear in the page strip at the bottom. Click any page tile to see its preview. Use the Re-Generate button to get different content for any page.

Pro tip: Each regeneration skips words you've already used in the same puzzle type, so every page stays unique.

Add Book Pages & Structure

Click Add Page to add more puzzle types or book pages. Choose from Cover, Copyright, Table of Contents, Section Dividers, and Custom Pages to build the structure of your book. Drag page tiles to reorder them.

Pro tip: The Table of Contents adds page numbers for every puzzle in your book automatically.

Set Layout & Trim Size

Switch to the Global Layout tab to set paper size (6"x9", 8.5"x11", and more), book title, author name, margins, headers, footers, and borders. Every change updates the live preview right away.

Pro tip: For KDP paperback, use 6"x9" with 0.5" margins minimum. The preview shows exactly how your book will print.

Review & Arrange

Click the workflow button in the header to move to the Organize & Export stage. Here you can review every page, fine-tune the answer key layout, change page order, and see the full structure of your book.

Pro tip: Use the answer page settings to choose compact or spacious density, badge styles, and grouping.

Preview Your Book

Use the live preview panel to see every page rendered at full print quality. Page through your book and check that the layout, typography, and content look right before you export.

Pro tip: What you see in the preview is what you get in the PDF. Same fonts, same spacing, same grids.

Export & Publish

Click Publish & Export. Choose to export puzzles only, answers only, or both. Pick print or digital mode. Your complete, print-ready PDF downloads with the cover, table of contents, puzzle pages, and answer key.

Pro tip: Digital mode adds clickable links and bookmarks for tablets and e-readers.

Publish to Amazon KDP

Open the Publisher Tools menu to prepare your KDP listing. The KDP Margin Checker checks your trim size and page count against KDP's minimum-margin and spine-width rules. Fix any issues it flags before you export your final PDF. The Cover Template Generator gives you the exact pixel size Amazon expects for the wrap-around cover (front, spine, and back), based on your final page count. The AI Metadata Generator drafts your title, description, and 7 keyword strings based on your book's content.

Upload your interior PDF and cover JPEG to KDP, paste in the AI-generated metadata, set your price, and submit for review. KDP usually approves within 72 hours. The Platform Export Guide tool has step-by-step screenshots for your first time.

Pro tip: Generate the cover template after you finalize your page count. KDP's spine width changes with the exact number of pages.

Manage Your Credits

Every Generate click shows the credit cost right on the button, so you always know what an action will cost before you commit. Your live balance shows in the dashboard header. Credits come out in this order: subscription credits (the bulk of your monthly allotment), then rollover credits (unused credits from last month, up to a cap), then purchased credits (token packs you bought directly; these stay available while your subscription is active).

If you're trying out a new puzzle type, regenerate freely. Each regeneration costs the same as a fresh generation, but you can throw away the result without touching anything else. If you run low before your next refill, the Token Packs page sells one-time credit bundles. This is useful when you have a deadline and don't want to wait.

Pro tip: Your transaction history (on your Profile page) shows every credit charge, so you can check your spending by puzzle type and day.

Troubleshooting

A few things go wrong often enough to mention here.

Generation didn't work? Refresh the page first. Most temporary errors clear up on their own. If the page panel shows "Sample Puzzle" instead of your generated content, the generation worked but the page strip didn't reload. Click another page tile, then click back. If credits were charged but no puzzle shows up, contact support with the date and time and we'll refund you.

AI features locked? Check your plan. AI generation needs Pro or above. New accounts get 3 free AI trial generations on the Starter plan to try it out.

Export stuck or failing? See the FAQ entry on export times. If one page is breaking the export, mark it Locked and re-export. The rest of the book will finish around it.

Image storage full? Custom-page images count toward your plan's image quota. Delete unused images from the image manager (open it from any custom page editor) or upgrade your plan.

Pro tip: The Send Feedback button at the bottom right is the fastest way to report a bug. It captures your current page state automatically, so we can reproduce the issue.