How to Create a Futoshiki Book for Amazon KDP

The Futoshiki wizard is available on every LogikLand plan, including the FREE plan, from the dashboard. Commercial rights, which you need to sell your books on Amazon KDP, come with the PRO and EXPERT plans.

The puzzle needs no arithmetic, only comparisons, which makes it easy to explain and suitable for many ages.

• Fill the grid so that every row and every column contains each digit exactly once: 1 to 5 in a 5 x 5 grid, 1 to 6 in a 6 x 6 grid, and so on.
• The signs between two squares must be respected: the point of the sign always faces the smaller digit.
• Some digits are given at the start. Every grid has a single solution.

These rules are printed at the start of your book when you add the “How to play” page.

1. 1

   Book settings

   Choose the language of your book (English, French, Spanish, German or Italian), enter its title, select the page size (8.5 x 11 inches or 6 x 9 inches), and choose the “How to play” pages: a detailed guide with examples, a short text page, or none.

2. 2

   Puzzles

   Choose One level for a single difficulty, or Several levels to set a number of grids for each level in the same book.

3. 3

   Layout

   Choose the title of each puzzle (name, level and number, or the number only). Grids: 1, 2 or 4 per page. Solutions: 1, 2, 4 or 6 per page (1, 2 or 4 in the Large Print edition). Then set the top, bottom, left and right margins, from 0.25 to 2 inches. A page counter shows the estimated length of your book compared with the page limit of your plan.

4. 4

   Generate, edit and export

   Click Generate Book. Your project opens in the visual editor, where you can change texts, fonts and positions, save your work, and download the book as a PDF or an editable PPTX file.

• 5 x 5 and 6 x 6 grids are small: 4 per page works well in 8.5 x 11 inches.
• Hard and Expert grids give almost no digits, so most of the work comes from the signs: keep them for the end of the book.
• The rules fit in one sentence (the point of the sign faces the smaller digit), but the detailed guide adds examples for beginners.

Amazon KDP margin requirements depend on your trim size and your page count: the inside margin must be larger for thicker books. Check the official KDP margin guidelines, preview your file in the KDP previewer, and increase the margins in the Layout step if needed.