Make your own interactive web puzzles
Crossword Forge can now turn your puzzles into interactive web pages. We call this
Crossword Forge Live. The puzzles are intuitive to use and include eye-catching animations that players will be sure to love.
Crossword Forge Live puzzles include the customization options you've come to expect from our puzzles (e.g. picture backdrops). You can also add automatic hints. Whether you are making puzzles for print or the web, Crossword Forge is always the best choice.
Check it out now.
Import Puzzles Are you worried about having to retype puzzles you've created using other puzzle editors? Stop worrying. Crossword Forge can import from many different text formats.
Export Puzzles With options for exporting to the Web, PDF, Images, or text, you can do more than just print your puzzles.
Restricted Words
Crossword Forge will make sure that your list of bad words doesn't get included in your word search puzzle.
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| Spell Checker
Crossword Forge has a built-in spell-checker to help ensure your puzzles are free from awkward spelling mistakes.
Mac OS X users rejoice!
You now have access to all of Mac OS X's built-in dictionaries including: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Swedish.
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Great for Foreign Language Teachers
Crossword Forge is a great foreign language crossword maker and word search maker. Crossword Forge simplifies foreign language puzzle construction with more than a dozen built-in language sets, and an easy way to create your own. You can build puzzles that use letters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks, essential for building puzzles in Spanish, French and German. Crossword Forge also supports right to left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew, and supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures like Punjabi. In fact, it even supports the thousands of ideographic characters found in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. |
Other Features
- Bonus Clues for Crossword and Word Search
- Multiple puzzle titles
- Font, Style, Size and Justification controls
- Unlimited clue and answer length
- Color and Picture backdrops
- Customizable Across and Down text
- Supports puzzle grids of any size
- Puzzle clues can span multiple pages
- Customizable grid block size
- Alphabet palette, to make it much easier to insert foreign characters
- Allows for manual puzzle repositioning within backdrop
- Multiple open puzzles at once.
- Unlimited Undo and Redo.
- Crossword Options
- Toggle Clue and Word Bank Visibility (supports fill-ins)
- Word Bank Scramble
- Word Search Options
- Show Clues or Word Bank
- Word Bank Scramble
- Toggle Backwards and Diagonal Words
- And much, much more...
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Picture Backdrops
Add images to your crossword puzzle or word search puzzle. Crossword Forge supports the following formats:
- BMP
- GIF
- JPEG
- MacPaint*
- PDF**
- PICT*
- PNG*
- Quicktime Image Format*
- RGB Planar*
- SGI*
- Targa*
- Tiff*
* Format supported on Windows only with Installation of Quicktime.
** Format only supported on Mac OS X.
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Built-in Language Support
English
French
Spanish
German
Italian
Russian
Swedish
Portuguese
Dutch
Greek
Scottish-Gaelic
Afrikaans
Japanese (Hiragana)
Japanese (Katakana)
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Punjabi
Esperanto
... You can even add your own.
| Foreign Alphabets
Crossword Forge fully supports Unicode. It can make puzzles in many character sets including:
Arabic, Hebrew, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese (Hiragana), Japanese (Katakana), Korean, Gurumukhi (for Punjabi), and of course Roman or Latin. |
† Free Demo Limitations
Crossword Forge will act in demo mode unless unlocked with a license key. In demo mode, Crossword Forge will only allow printing the puzzle answer key; word search answers will be circled, and crossword puzzle squares will already have the answers in them. You can remove these limitations by purchasing Crossword Forge.
Crossword Forge is available in German.