Clear rules first
Every puzzle or game should explain the aim, controls, and basic rules before asking players to think hard.
Publishing standards
Reliable puzzle games.
Hamilton Digital Media Limited publishes puzzle websites, apps, and books for people who enjoy logic, strategy, word play, and brain-training challenges. These are the standards we want our work to live up to.
What matters
What good puzzle publishing means.
Fair challenge
Difficulty should come from logic, deduction, vocabulary, memory, or strategy, not from confusing layouts or hidden information.
Useful tools
Solvers, helpers, generators, trainers, and printable tools should support learning and play rather than simply replacing the thinking.
Real testing
We test puzzle pages for clarity, device fit, obvious mistakes, broken controls, and whether the experience still makes sense to a new player.
Corrections welcome
If a puzzle, clue, page, app, or explanation is wrong or unclear, we want to know. Useful feedback helps the whole network improve.
Transparent recommendations
If we review, recommend, or discuss a puzzle-related product as part of a commercial relationship, that relationship should be clear to readers and viewers.
Corrections
Good puzzle sites improve after real use.
Puzzle sites are living products. A board can behave differently on a new phone, an instruction can be clear to us but not to a new player, and a clue or generated puzzle can occasionally need a second look.
We welcome practical reports from players, parents, teachers, reviewers, and puzzle fans. The most helpful messages include the page or app involved, what happened, what you expected, and any screenshot or device details that make the issue easier to repeat.
Report an issueHow we respond
Player feedback helps shape the work.
- We look at reports about broken pages, app issues, puzzle errors, unclear instructions, and misleading wording.
- We prioritise issues that stop people playing, cause wrong solutions, or make a puzzle unfair.
- When feedback points to a real problem, we aim to correct the page, puzzle, wording, or tool as plainly as possible.
- We treat player reports as part of the publishing process, not as an interruption to it.
Authorship
Readers should know who is behind the work.
Hamilton Digital Media is led by Brian Hamilton, with puzzle design, testing, writing, and player-experience contributions from Karan Hamilton. Their author pages explain the practical experience behind the games, tools, and puzzle content across the network.
Brian's background is in web development and puzzle systems. Karan's contribution is especially strong around testing, clarity, wording, game feel, and whether a puzzle makes sense from the player's side of the screen.
Reviews and disclosure
Commercial relationships should be clear.
BrianHamilton.xyz itself does not carry adverts, affiliate links, analytics, or cookie-based tracking. It gives players, partners, app-store reviewers, and puzzle fans a clear place to verify the company behind the portfolio.
If a recommendation, review, social post, or page elsewhere in the network is ever part of a commercial relationship, the reader or viewer should be able to understand that relationship. Relevance matters too: any commercial work should make sense for a puzzle, logic, strategy, or brain-training audience.
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