meta.yaml

events/<event>/dayNN/meta.yaml. Plaintext, never committed: only its sealed form is.

title: Count the candles
type: code
answers:
  - "55"
  - fifty five
word: returns
hints:
  - text: The loop adds every night from 1 to 10.
    after: 0
  - 1 + 2 + ... + 10.

title

Type string · Required

Shown above the puzzle.

type

Type string · Required

A label shown on the door and in the puzzle header. Any text works; the samples use teaser, code, company, cipher, logic, image and meta. The engine treats all types alike.

answers

Type list of strings · Required, at least one

Every accepted answer, compared after normalization (accents removed, lowercase, only a-z0-9). Each must keep at least one letter or digit. See Write and seal a day.

word

Type string, already normalized (a-z0-9) · Required

What solving the day gives the player; the words in day order form the certificate key.

hints

Type list of one or two hints · Required

Each hint is either plain text, timed by the event’s hint_after, or an object:

text

Type string · Required · Under hints

The hint.

after

Type integer ≥ 0 · Optional · Under hints

Days after the door opens when this hint appears (0 means with the door). Hints are revealed in order, so a later hint cannot be due sooner.