Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Crossword Puzzle Softwares

Here is a list of links to some crossword puzzle software. From those I have tried, I can recommend Sympathy and Crossword Compiler.

* Across and Across Lite - Literate Systems' crossword solving and construction software.

* Crossdown Crossword Puzzles - Solve and construct professional crosswords on your Windows computer.

* Crossword Compiler - Create educational and professional crossword puzzles. Create vocabulary puzzles automatically from a word list.

* Crossword Construction Kit - The Desktop Publisher for Crosswords. Features the unique ability to make puzzles in fun shapes (diamonds, doughnuts, trains, etc)

* Crossword Express - A crossword puzzle compiler.

* Crossword Studio - Solve puzzles and design your own with this commercial program. Add artwork, color and sound. Use them for your own enjoyment or let others share in the crossword fun.

* Crossword Weaver - Make crossword puzzles using your words. Two styles of puzzles. Multiple puzzles from the same list. Different difficulty levels.

* Crossword Forge - Crossword and word search construction software.

* Crossworks - Crossword puzzle software with the full Merriam-Webster Crossword Puzzle Dictionary.

* Cruciverbalist - Crossword construction software for the Macintosh, by West Pole Software.

* EclipseCrossword - Creates crosswords and puzzles, includes project ideas, examples, tutorials and international applets.

* Henry Casson's Crossword Utility - Free crossword software for the creation of grids and the facility to send grids by email as a text message.

* Puzzle Express - Puzzle playing shareware software, including crosswords, fill ins, coded crosswords, word search puzzles and logic puzzles.

* Sympathy - High specification crossword construction tool.

* WordFind: Crossword Help Utility - This utility allows you to search for words based on patterns, wildcards (including voewls, consonants and user-defined criteria); has a vocabulary of 115,000 words. Great for crosswords & Scrabble.

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