Overview

Crossword Forge is a very powerful, feature-rich, but easy-to-use crossword and word search puzzle maker.

Popular Features:

1. Fast and Easy - Simply supply clue and answer pairs of your own choosing and Crossword Forge will generate a puzzle for you.
• Crossword or word search ....- Choose to make either a crossword or a word search puzzle. Switching back and forth between the two takes only a few seconds.
• Large or small .......................- Easily creates large and small puzzles and everything in between.
• Fonts & styles .......................- Change the font, style and color of your text.
• Titles & subtitles ...................- Add colorful title and subtitles to your puzzle; change the font, size, justification, and style.
• Word bank ............................- Both crossword and word search puzzles include a "word bank" option, anagram style or plain.
• Unlimited clues .....................- Clues can be as long as you like, as many as you like.
• Unlimited answers ................- Answer length is only limited by your puzzle size.
• Directional Control ...............- Options on the word search include: diagonal words, reversed words.
• Character Control .................- Prevent undesirable random letter sequences in word searches.
• Locked Letters .....................- Specify any given letter in a given position.
2. Spell checker - The built-in spell checker helps finds mistakes fast.
3. Picture backdrops - Use pictures (or solid color) backdrops to add more life and interest to your puzzles.
4. Import / export - Import your clues and answers from pre-made material. Export as PDF, text, image, or web.
5. Printed puzzles - Print your puzzles (and/or the answer key) on any paper size or save as PDFs. (An unlicensed version will print only the answer key.)
6. Web puzzles - Puzzles are great for posting on the web! Prepare your puzzle and preview for the web. Simple, straight-forward web export.
7. Word Ideas - Use the powerful Word Ideas to find new words that fit your puzzle.
8. Mask editor - For ultra-dense, newspaper-style crossword puzzles and word search puzzles in shapes, e.g. stars, squares, triangles, Christmas trees, hearts, etc. Allows users to specify which letters should be placed in any given position in the grid to form the desired puzzle.
9. Foreign languages - Make puzzles in Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Russian, Portugese, Hebrew, and many more.