Crossword Forge v5.1.7

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.

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.

Spell Checker
Crossword Forge has a built-in spell-checker to help ensure your puzzles are free from awkward spelling mistakes.

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…

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.

Windows: Windows 98 and higher
+ Windows XP Compatible