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Puzzles for the Web, Print, & PDF (Mac + PC)

Easily make and share crossword puzzles and word search puzzles.

Introducing Crossword Forge 6!

Our new version of Crossword Forge allows you to make crossword puzzles like never before. An all new, updated algorithm vastly improves the density of your puzzles. This allows you to fit more words in a smaller space, while preserving all the many qualities and features of our previous editions.
Crossword Forge 6 introduces the ability to construct super dense newspaper-style puzzles.
Newspaper-style Puzzle
Word Suggester allows you to find words that match your puzzle theme or to increase puzzle density.
Make a Crossword Puzzle
Word Suggester
Try the new Puzzle Mask feature to customize your puzzle like never before. Use the mask to exclude an area where you don't want the puzzle to form, e.g. on faces of a picture used as a backdrop. Or you can modify the mask to make a fun shape, such as a geometrical figure.
The Puzzle Mask editor is extremely useful for recreating a newspaper crossword puzzle or creating symmetrical puzzles of your own.
Make a Crossword Puzzle
Puzzle Mask Editor



About Crossword Forge

Create high quality puzzles, both crossword and word search, on any subject.

Crossword Forge's high quality print and PDF output has been used in numerous books and newspapers.
Now you can bring that power to your home or school. Learn how to make a simple puzzle in just a few steps.
Make a Crossword Puzzle
Make a Crossword Puzzle


Crossword Forge is so easy to use that anyone can create high quality crossword puzzles and word search puzzles on any subject.
See how a crossword puzzle can be made into a word search with the click of a button.
Make a Word Search
Make a Word Search



Change fonts, colors and even add a cool backdrop picture to liven up your puzzle.
Add a Title/Backdrop
Add a Title Backdrop



Teach a foreign language?
International Flags Crossword Forge has 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.

Foreign Languages
Foreign Languages
Print out or Play Online
Want to engage your students or friends on the web? Not a problem.

Web Browsers

Crossword Forge makes it painless to create high quality, interactive content that works on FireFox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera or any web browser that supports Flash. The puzzles are intuitive to use and include eye-catching animations that players will be sure to love.
Play an Interactive Puzzle Here!
Then learn how to make your own playable puzzle.
Put a puzzle on the Web
Put a Puzzle on the Web


If you're a teacher, you don't have a lot of time for data entry.
Put a puzzle on the WebThat's why we have lots of import options to make your job as simple as possible.
Also, Crossword Forge exports to text, pdf, image, and web.



Import Options
Import Options


Elementary Ed -- Crossword Forge supports arbitrarily LARGE PRINT letters. Perfect for early learners.
Allows word search puzzles, so that you can help kids concentrate on the letters that they are learning.

Secondary Ed -- Crossword Forge helps you protect against accidental profanity in your word search puzzles.

With no limit on the size of the grid or the size of words used in that grid, your puzzles can use words and definitions that are as complex as you want.

Math and Science -- With full unicode support you can use any math and science symbol in your puzzles.

Other Cool Features

A built in Spell Checker to help ensure your puzzles are free from awkward or embarrassing spelling mistakes. misspelled word Mac OS X users have access to all of Mac OS X's built-in dictionaries including: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Swedish.
Crossword Forge enhances your creativity.
Add variety and challenge to your puzzles by adding word banks with distractors or scrambled words, bonus questions for both crossword and word search puzzles, and word searches that require you to answer a question before finding the word.

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