Logic puzzles are definitely worth more than straight word count, but they kind of grow exponentially based on how many characters there are and how many types of information there are for each character, so I'm a little fuzzy on how to directly correlate. (Of the four I've made, word counts range from 412 to 823, but my off-the-top estimate on how much work they took me would probably put them at equivalent to 3k minimum but probably closer to 5k+.)
You could maybe make a very rough equivalence by number of clues (off the top of my head, something like each 2 or 3 clues = 1k), though that might be a bit backwards because if you have shorter/less complicated clues you need a lot more of them (vs. I try to make my clues have a lot of depth so that my puzzles need as few as possible).
Or maybe the simplest thing would be to set a minimum size for the puzzle and then set a blanket equivalence. (And I don't know how you want to count the grid into that, since it is an image but takes a lot less work than most art, as evidenced by the fact that my limited art skills are up for the job.)
Anyway, however you want to handle this is of course fine—let me know if you have any questions!
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Logic puzzles are definitely worth more than straight word count, but they kind of grow exponentially based on how many characters there are and how many types of information there are for each character, so I'm a little fuzzy on how to directly correlate. (Of the four I've made, word counts range from 412 to 823, but my off-the-top estimate on how much work they took me would probably put them at equivalent to 3k minimum but probably closer to 5k+.)
You could maybe make a very rough equivalence by number of clues (off the top of my head, something like each 2 or 3 clues = 1k), though that might be a bit backwards because if you have shorter/less complicated clues you need a lot more of them (vs. I try to make my clues have a lot of depth so that my puzzles need as few as possible).
Or maybe the simplest thing would be to set a minimum size for the puzzle and then set a blanket equivalence. (And I don't know how you want to count the grid into that, since it is an image but takes a lot less work than most art, as evidenced by the fact that my limited art skills are up for the job.)
Anyway, however you want to handle this is of course fine—let me know if you have any questions!