From a1bd79ae261d39937cd47c2b1f6c03226fd5b949 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Miner <3ch01c@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:15:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] removed extraneous lines --- doc/writing-puzzles.md | 13 +------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/writing-puzzles.md b/doc/writing-puzzles.md index b01ee5a..f48e880 100644 --- a/doc/writing-puzzles.md +++ b/doc/writing-puzzles.md @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Since Unix commands are plain text, I'll be using the Unix commands to illustrate steps. These are simple commands that should be easy to translate to a GUI. - Step 1: Establish a progression ------------------------------- @@ -50,8 +49,6 @@ Remember to only introduce one new concept for each puzzle! Past a certain point, feel free to throw in the killer tricky puzzles you're just dying to create! - - Step 2: Establish point values ------------------------------ @@ -64,8 +61,6 @@ than a 20-point puzzle, but it is crucial that a 25-point puzzle be roughly as difficult as a 20-point puzzle. Poorly-weighted puzzles has been the main reason students lose interest. - - Step 3: Set up your puzzle structure ------------------------------------ @@ -75,15 +70,12 @@ Your first step will be to make a "sandwich" directory somewhere. $ mkdir sandwich $ cd sandwich - $ Within your category directory, create subdirectories for each point value puzzle. In the "sandwich" category we have only 5, 10, and 100-point puzzles. $ mkdir 5 10 100 - $ - Step 4: Write puzzles --------------------- @@ -100,6 +92,7 @@ Special files are: before the list of normal files in the puzzle directory. * 00answers.txt: a plain text file with acceptable answers, one per line. Answers are matched exactly (ie. they are case-sensitive). +* 00author.txt: a plain text file with the puzzle author's name. * summary: a single line explaining to contest organizers what's going on in this puzzle. @@ -138,7 +131,6 @@ If you wanted to provide a PDF of various sandwiches, this would be the time to add that too: $ cp /tmp/sandwich-types.pdf . - $ In a real category, you might provide an executable, hard drive image, or some other kind of blob. @@ -146,8 +138,6 @@ or some other kind of blob. No additional work is needed to have `sandwich-types.pdf` show up as a download on the puzzle page. - - Step 5: Package it up --------------------- @@ -158,6 +148,5 @@ up. $ cd ../.. $ zip -r sandwich.zip sandwich/ - $ Now mail the zip file in, and you're all done!