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DESCRIPTION
Crossword Forge...
An easy to use crossword and word search puzzle maker. It quickly generates ultra-dense high quality puzzles from your words for the web, print, and PDF.
Purposes:
- Generate ultra-dense newspaper style and free-form crossword puzzles.
- Produce publication quality word search puzzles.
Features:
- Word Suggester to help you make denser and more topic relevant puzzles
- Puzzle Mask Editor to allow users to stop the puzzle from forming in certain spaces and to form specific shaped puzzles
- Type puzzled data directly, or import it from many different text formats
- Generate high quality web, print and PDF puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
- Built-in multi-lingual spell checker
- Unlimited undo and redo
- Support for restricted word lists in word search mode (i.e. helps eliminate accidental "naughty words" in your word search puzzles)
- 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
- Allows for manual puzzle repositioning within backdrop
- Crossword Options
- Toggle Clue and Word Bank Visibility
- Word Bank Scramble
- Word Search Options
- Show Clues or Word Bank
- Word Bank Scramble
- Toggle Backwards and Diagonal Words
- Built-in Support for making foreign language crossword puzzles.
- Built-in Language Sets Include: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Greek etc.
- Support for characters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks (great for Spanish, French and German puzzles).
- Support for Right to Left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew
- supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures like Punjabi
- Full Unicode support.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 6.1.4:
- Fixed the Open Recent menu so that it saves items between launches on a consistent basis (broken in version 6.1).
- Various minor improvements.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.1 or later (Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later recommended)
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| Crossword Forge User Reviews (10 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 25 2008 |
NIGHTHAWK090 Downloaded to try out, but version listed with new features as 5.3, site download and linked macupdate download still says 5.2.8........
(Version 5.3) | |
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 | Feb 25 2008 |
CORTIS CLARK Sorry, forgot to change the version number on the build we sent out. We have since fixed the problem and uploaded the new version. The only change being the version number.
(Version 5.3) | |
 | May 24 2007 |
FRANCO The application works well and does what it is said to do. However, as an Italian user, I feel the lack of an important feature, which is very common in latin languages countries which use many, many polisyllabic words, as at least in mine: the capability to "block" the "black" cells in the desired positions prior to start building the puzzle, so obliging its construction around them. Many puzzles in my country are developed with a symmetrical placement of black cells which are in quantity much less than the open (letters) ones. If the developer is interested, I could e-mail them pictures of some of those typical puzzles. I hope this can be implemented in some future version. Because of that I've dropped down one star.
(Version 5.1.7) | |
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| May 24 2007 |
CORTIS CLARK The crossword puzzles "Crossword Forge" makes are "free-form" (sometimes also called "criss-cross" or "framework" puzzles). I would be happy to see an italian style crossword. To send us comments, use the contact link which appear at the bottom of our web page. Keep in mind that we can't promise when or if a particular feature will get added.
(Version 5.1.7) | |
| Jan 25 2007 |
SATYRICA Awesome app! True Mac style: easy to use, lots of great features!
(Version 5.1) | |
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| May 7 2005 |
JANUS Pros: Easy to use for both crossword and crossnumber puzzles. Responsive developer and frequent updates. Cons: No undo; no genuine page preview; setting page margins is not intuitive; no dynamic links among clues.
(Version 3.9) | |
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| Sep 5 2005 |
CORTIS CLARK Version 4.0 now has unlimited Undo and Redo.
(Version 4.0.1) | |
| Apr 11 2005 |
JULI P. EXCELLENT! Kudos to Crossword Forge! It is about time someone gave us the ability to create print/press quality files for the crossword puzzles we make! YEA!!! The PDF export is PERFECT! Gives us nice clean text and squares! THANK YOU!!!
(Version 3.7) | |
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| Mar 4 2005 |
ALBERTO SABBADINI very useful, simple, my slittle students love to create crossword with it (from Italy)
(Version 3.6.2) | |
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| Jan 7 2005 |
MORANNON What I am hoping for is a possibility to create javascript based puzzles for my website. But anyway, this is a great application, my students love it.
(Version 3.3) | |
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| Jan 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS If you want crossword puzzles on your website, then try HotPotatoes; it's easy and free
(Version 3.3) | |
| Jan 30 2005 |
MORANNNON HotPotatoes is great, but it has a disadvantage: It only works with Internet Explorer. I tried Safari, and it's not able to display anything. But thanks anyway.
(Version 3.5) | |
| Jan 31 2006 |
CORTIS CLARK You can now develop web based interactive puzzles right from Crossword Forge. Just download the latest version, load your puzzle and export for web. The generated puzzles are Flash based and will work in any browser that supports Flash 7 or higher.
(Version 4.5.2) | |
| Nov 28 2004 |
MACOVATION CF has been very well accepted by my graduate students in medicine as a learning tool. It helps to stimulate discussion, develop focus in thought, and enhance medical vocabulary. It does what it was written to do WELL. It helps to make Learning fun. Great job and thank you.
(Version 3.1) | |
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| May 9 2004 |
GEORGE Works nice and fairly easy to use. Seems a bit high priced but still worth it if this is useful to you. Great tool for teaching. Not just grade school.
(Version 3.0.5) | |
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| May 8 2004 |
DAVID Easy and straightforward crossword-generating program. Developer informs user of each upgrade, a considerate service.
(Version 3.0.5) | |
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