How to Create a Mine Finder Puzzle Book for Amazon KDP

The Mine Finder 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.

Every grid is solved by logic, without guessing, and the total number of mines is printed under the grid.

• Mines are hidden in the grid. Find all of them.
• Each number tells how many mines touch its square, diagonals included (up to 8). A square with a number never holds a mine.
• The total number of mines is shown under the grid. Every grid has a single solution, found by logic without guessing.

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 (up to 2 in 6 x 9 inches or for the Hard and Expert levels). 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.

• Start with 8 x 8 grids (10 mines): solvers learn to read the numbers before the 14 x 14 grids with 32 mines.
• The detailed guide explains that diagonals count: it is the point that surprises new solvers.
• Pair a Mine Finder book with Sea Battle or Nonogram books for a series of grid logic puzzles.

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.