Buttons
You can optionally add Cheat and Solve buttons to help your players out.
If you leave the default options as they are, no cheating or solving is allowed, and these buttons will never be shown. Your players will either solve it or give up.
The nice thing about these buttons is that your player will never know when or if (at all) they will be shown. Some puzzles have them, some don't.
Cheat Button
For Puzzle Type 15, or if your puzzle is especially tough with similar pieces, or if it's not easy to guess what the finished puzzle would be, you might want to help your players out by showing a Cheat button. Or maybe not :-)
When a Cheat button is pushed, the solved puzzle is quickly shown then faded out again, to be replaced with the positions that the player was at before they pushed the Cheat button.
To add a Cheat button, you need to set the number of moves that the Cheat button will get displayed at. So if you set this to be eg. 20, the Cheat button will magically appear after 20 moves if the player hasn't already solved it.
If the Cheat button is not pushed, it will remain visible and pushable until the puzzle is solved, or a Solve button replaces it at the bottom. (See below for details of the solve Button)
If the puzzle is especially tough, you might want to allow them to push the Cheat more than once. The default is set to 1 Cheat, which means that after pushing the Cheat button once, it will never appear again. If you set this higher than 1, the Cheat button will immediately re-appear after being pushed once, so it can be used again, up to the max number of times you have specified.
Solve Button
The Solve button allow a player just to give up, and see the finished puzzle, without trying any further.
This is a useful option if you're using a PiccyPuzzle as a learning tool, or for eg. an impossibly tough 15 game that you know is too tough to solve.
Just like the Cheat button, you specify after how many moves you want the solve button to appear.
Normally, you would set the Cheat button to a lower value, and the Solve button to a higher value, to give the player a chance to Cheat first, then offer them to Solve later on.
Or you could show them the other way around, and offer them to Solve first (which they pass up, because they want to solve it), then replace it by the Cheat button later.
You can choose to use either Cheat or Solve, on their own, or together, in either order. Just leave the fields blank of the buttons you don't want to use.
Admin
You can update the Button behaviour via the Admin page you get at the end of the puzzle.
This means that you could start off with no buttons, find it's too tough, and then add them later on. Or have buttons, and find everyone is using them all the time, then remove them both, or just one of them.
If you make changes to your Button settings, the embed code does not change. All you need to do is to restart your browser, and it will pick up the new settings next time your PiccyPuzzle is shown in your web page.