Crossword puzzle maker The Crossword puzzle maker is used to make simple crossword puzzles. It turns out that good crossword puzzles of the type found in newspapers are fairly hard to generate, and require a pool of lots of words, not all of which are used. This program puts all of the words you specify (no more, no less) into a simple crossword puzzle. The puzzle that is generated will remain on this server for about two months. If you want to ensure that you have a copy of the generated puzzle, make sure you save a copy. If you want help with international characters, you can call up an Alphabet chart to use for cutting and pasting letters that are hard to type. This chart will come up in a separate window. I've changed everything over to https for secure web browsing. This is the way that the web is going. If you see any errors, please let me know. Paolo Guanciarossa has updated the "Solve Online" to be much easier to use. Use the Tab key to change between across and down. You can type in the answer to the puzzle in an obvious fashion, and the cursor moves to the next appropriate cell in the puzzle. Dave Regan

crossword@armoredpenguin.com The first part of this is for you to enter a list of words and clues. Once that part is done, hit the Make Puzzle button for a puzzle which incorporates your words. As the number of words you put in the puzzle, increases, the wait increases exponentially. However, if you want a puzzle that is larger than what fits with this form, go to the Large Puzzle page. Crossword puzzle title: Author's Name: Description of puzzle: Computation time: We try lots of combinations to get you a nice puzzle. This takes time; time for our computer to generate the puzzle, and time for you to wait. This lets you set the trade off. The time is in seconds. Expansion: Once we start finding a puzzle that has all of the words in the grid, we grow the puzzle up to this number of cells in both height and width attempting to get all of the words interconnected. Bigger numbers will take longer. Minimum number of groups: We try to connect all of the words into a single group. Sometimes that's not possible because the combination of letters doesn't line up, or because we run out of time (see above). This gives you the minimum number of groups that you're willing to accept (and that we'll stop at). Setting this to 1 will cause the program to run longer. Although we try our best, we may still not get you the puzzle you were looking for. Size of square: This allows you to play with the size of the puzzle. Bigger numbers make larger puzzles. Color of square: black grey Grey squares use less ink when printing. Black is more traditional. Change to upper case: yes no Change letters to all capital letters, or leave as they were entered. Remove spaces in words: yes no How "Remove spaces in words" works Free Form (PDF only): yes no For the PDF version of the output, don't draw the black squares. Omit answer keys: yes no Don't give buttons for the answer keys.

How "No Answer Keys" works Language: English/English Afrikaans/Afrikaans Arabic/عربى Armenian/Հայերէն Bulgarian/Български Chinese/中文 Danish/Dansk Dutch/Nederlands Estonian/eesti keel Finnish/Suomi French/Français German/Deutsch Hebrew/עברית Hungarian/Magyar Irish/Gaeilge Italian/Italiano Japanese/日本語 Korean/한국어 Latvian/Latviešu Lithuanian/Lietuviškai Lojban/lojban Lower Sorbian/dolnoserbšćina Malaysian/Bahasa Malaysia Norwegian/Norsk Polish/Polski Portuguese/Português Romanian/Română Russian/Русский Serbian/Српски језик Spanish/Español Swedish/Svenska Turkish/Türkçe Ukrainian/Українська Upper Sorbian/hornjoserbšćina Venetian/Lengoa Veneta Welsh/Cymraeg/Iaith Language for Across/Down/etc.

How "Language" works Text file name:

Plain text file on your computer

to read with one answer:clue per line.

How file loading works HTML Font style: Nothing special Arial Arial Bold Arial Italic Arial Bold Italic Arial Black Comic Sans MS Comic Sans MS Bold Courier New Courier New Bold Courier New Italic Courier New Bold Italic Impact Times New Roman Times New Roman Bold Times New Roman Italic Times New Roman Bold Italic Verdana Verdana Bold Verdana Italic Verdana Bold Italic Century Gothic Font restrictions PDF Page size: US Letter - 8.5" x 11" 5" x 7" A4 - 210 × 297 mm PDF Page Size PDF Font style: Nothing special Amazone AmericanUnc Bandit Bold Italic Bank Gothic-Medium Braggadocio Chaucer Comic Sans Comic Sans Bold Corsiva Courier Courier Bold Courier Oblique Courier Bold Oblique FetteFraktur Bold Fillmore Fujiyama Harpoon Helvetica Helvetica Bold Helvetica Oblique Helvetica Bold Oblique Jamai Jupiter Latin Wide LinoScript Pepita Serpentine Sans Stencil Bold Times Roman Times Bold Times Italic Times Bold Italic Georgia Georgia Bold Georgia Italic Georgia Bold Italic Umbra Verdana Verdana Bold Verdana Italic Verdana Bold Italic WoodType Demi Gallaudet (American Sign Language) British Sign Language PDF Fonts Two page PDF output: no yes Put the puzzle and the clues on two separate pages in the PDF file. Information gap puzzle: no yes How to use Information gap puzzles Create word bank: no yes How a word bank works Quiz mode How Quiz Mode works Background image How background images works Lighten image How lighten image works Please enter your words and clues. Words without clues, and clues without words, are ignored. You need both for this program. Word Clue

It will take a number of seconds to generate your puzzle, please wait after hitting the Submit button. Tip: The $10/year subscription allows you to create quizes out of your crossword puzzle, and have your students send the answers they come up with to your email address. See the signup and Quiz Mode pages for more information.



