Crossword Construction Kit is a must have tool for educators, students, publishers, corporate trainers and puzzle enthusiasts to quickly produce professional looking puzzles. Design your own puzzle page layout -- drop, place and size the puzzle, graphics and text components. Select fonts, colors, columns, borders, alignment and more.

Quickly Create Puzzles

Crossword Construction Kit is a great way to create theme based crossword puzzles of various shapes and sizes. You can literally create great looking crosswords in minutes using the default settings. Just enter your words and clues, select a shape and layout and then save.

Puzzle Shapes

The program features the unique ability to make puzzles in fun shapes with over 100 predefined puzzle shapes (diamonds, doughnuts, trains, etc). Use the shape creator to build an unlimited number of new shapes. Create puzzles up to 49 x 49 in size with a maximum of 200 words per puzzle and up to 150 characters per clue.

Puzzle Layouts

Design your own puzzle page layout -- drop, place and size the puzzle, graphics and text components. Select fonts, colors, columns, borders, alignment and more. Insert images as backdrops to reinforce puzzle concepts. Or choose from any number of predefined layouts supplied with the program.

Print Output Options

Print options include skeleton or filled box, font selection, answer key, partial answer key or selected letters as hints. Output puzzles to paper, clipboard, bitmap, JPEG, metafile, HTML ready web page or as a playable puzzle.

Interactive Puzzles

The program also includes a Puzzle Player unit. Export the puzzles in a java format and solve the puzzles interactively on screen. Or place interactive puzzles on the Internet to enhance a web site.

Why use Crossword Construction Kit?

Below are a just few ideas for using Crossword Construction Kit.

Teachers

Create puzzles for vocabulary, spelling, reading reviews, foreign language studies and more. Create puzzles as chapter reviews, quizzes or extra credit. Include a bonus question on the puzzle. Create or use puzzle shapes that match your subject material or lay the puzzle over top of a supporting graphic image.

Students

Quickly create puzzles required as homework or extra credit. Dazzle your teacher and fellow students with the quality of puzzles produced.

Publishers

Create professional looking puzzles with an assortment of colors, shapes and graphics. Export the puzzle to a Windows metafile, bitmap, JPEG or PNG image and load it into your own software package.

Corporate Trainers

Liven up course material with creative crossword puzzles. It's a great tool to help trainees, new hires and others reinforce their understanding of key concepts.

Puzzle Enthusiasts

Build fun puzzles for friends, family and others. Create a puzzle with a picture of yourself or family with the puzzle overlaid on the picture! Easily post your puzzles onto a Web page.

Other Uses

Generate puzzles for Newsletters, Church Bulletins, Scouts, Wedding Showers, Contests, Parties and more.