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Online Crosswords
Online Puzzle Aggregators
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Dictionaries and Solving aids
Unified Resources
  • BoLS Boardgames Scrabble and anagram solvers, dictionaries, downloadable puzzles, and more.
  • Crossword Answers 911 Latest Crossword Answers by Publisher - a collection of crossword answers and clues from more than 40 different sources! (ACPT SPONSOR)
  • Crossword Giant Crossword puzzle solver. Solves crosswords by clues or by pattern matching. Cross references clues to answers as well as to past puzzles. Helps you solve crosswords published worldwide (U.S.A, U.K, Canada, Ireland, Australia and more!)
  • FindTheWord.info FindTheWord.info is a search engine for english words. All searches are made in a dictionary containing more than 450,000 english words. FindTheWord.info seaches for partial words (both crossword solver and part of word), anagrams and palindromes.
  • LookWAYup dictionaries English dictionary with spelling correction, integrated thesaurus for related words, and translation to other languages.
  • OneAcross Crossword Clue Search and Anagram Finder. Terrific resource!
  • Quinapalus.com Free cruciverbal software and shareware, including comprehensive free on-line word matcher for completing crosswords.
  • Try Hard Guides We provide solutions to popular crossword clues along with daily roundups of answers.
  • Wolfram Alpha Free computational knowledge engine that draws on multiple sources to answer user queries directly — including a crossword puzzler solver.
  • Wordmaker Wordmaker is a website which lets you know what number of words you can make out of any given word in English, incorporating each word mix of a given word.
  • Wordplays Crossword Solver, Anagrammers, Scrabble, Boggle and other word games.
Crossword Dictionaries
  • The Online Crossword Dictionary XwordDictionary.com: The most powerfull Crossword Dictionary on the net! Let you search by clue or pattern.
  • WordMine.info WordMine.info is a crossword solver and word search engine. Crossword help and find words from part of words, create words from letters, and much more. All this can be done in a lots of different languages. And with instant search the result is displayed while you type.
Scrabble Dictionaries / Cheats
  • LatimesCrosswordSolutions We solve and publish the solutions of the puzzle
  • project LEXICON Find the top words with the highest scores to play with word board games like Words With Friends, Scrabble, and more!
  • Scrabble Cheat A Scrabble word finder that takes any letters and searches a database to find all words you can spell with those letters. Supports blanks and many filters to aid your search.
  • scrabble cheat Anagrammer Scrabble Cheat is wicked little tool that provides you scrabble help by supplying you Scrabble words with their scores and dictionary definitions.
  • Free Scrabble Word Finder An online anagram solver that will help you cheat at scrabble. You can use it to find words.
  • Scrabble Cheat Board Scrabble Cheat Board & Scrabble Cheat Site. Full board, including anagrammer and solver. Includes dictionaries for Words With Friends, Scrabble and Wordfeud, and others.
  • Scrabble Word Finder Scrabble Word Finder is a scrabble word finder for games like Lexulous, wordscraper, and Words with Friends using the official Scrabble tournament dictionary.
  • Scrabbleicious The site is coded to help people get aid in solving Scrabble using our scrabble word finder
  • ScrabbleMANIA Check for legal words, find words AND find words with a specific pattern using the advanced search
  • Scrabble helper Anagram generators for Scrabble, Words With Friends and other word games. Also have a look at our articles on word games and word trivia.
  • Words with Friends Solver Anagrammer's Words with Friends Solver is a very powerful and customizable WWF solution finder
  • Scrabble Strategies That Win Every Game This comprehensive list of Scrabble strategies will make you into a better player! Only following a couple of our tips can give you an overwhelming advantage with most casual players.
  • Scrabble Word Solver A scrabble and anagram solver. With dictionary and definitions. Enter up to 15 words with blank tiles.
  • Scrabble Word Solver Online Fastest Scrabble word solver with points for each words using the official Scrabble dictionary.
  • Word Game Helper Word Game Helper helps you find words that fit any criteria that you set. So if you know a few letters that the word contains, you can use the search tools on this website to search for the word.
  • Word Tips Word Tips Word Finder helps you find the best cheats and highest scoring words for Scrabble� and Words with Friends� ? Find all the possible words from your rack letters order by length and points.
Anagram Solvers: Type in "crossword tournament" — get back "term to run across/down"
  • Anagram Genius Server  
  • Anagram Insanity  
  • Anagram Logic Type in any word or name, and get back shorter words formed from those letters or play an anagram word game where you try to find pairs of words using crossword puzzle clues.
  • Anagram Server  
  • Anagram Solver A simple to use anagram solver used for popular word games such as Scrabble
  • Anagrams Solved Anagrams site and game solutions for flexicon, crosswire, and other Club Bing games.
  • Andy's Anagram Solver  
  • Lexigram — anagram solver Free online anagram solver with some advanced features.
  • Hanging Hyena Scrabble Helper - also has solvers for other word games (Hangman, Boggle)
  • Word Game Helper Word Game Helper helps you find words that fit any criteria that you set. So if you know a few letters that the word contains, you can use the search tools on this website to search for the word.
Crossword Finishers: Type in "cr__swo_d" and get back "crossword"
  • BoLS Crosswords Crossword solver and dictionary/definition lookup tools.
  • CrosswordCheats.com A small site to help you complete crosswords.
  • Crossword Helper  
  • Crossword King Useful tools for cruciverbalists and word lovers
  • Word Game Helper Word Game Helper helps you find words that fit any criteria that you set. So if you know a few letters that the word contains, you can use the search tools on this website to search for the word.
Cryptic Cheats
Acronyms
Dictionaries and More...
  • AllWords Online Dictionary and Language Portal with Crossword Solver
  • Easton's Bible Dictionary  
  • onelook Dictionary Search
  • Merriam-Webster Lookup dictionary Just type in a word and it returns the definition
  • Regex Dictionary The Regex Dictionary is a searchable online dictionary, based on The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, that returns matches based on strings — defined here as a series of characters and metacharacters — rather than on whole words, while optionally grouping results by their part of speech
  • PuzzleHelp can be used to solve and create all kinds of word puzzles like crossword, crypto etc. It has a word list of over 330.000 words.
  • Wordage.info A free tool for word discovery. In other words, a terrific thesaurus!
  • Zebra Words Definitions from an assortment of other sources
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American crosswords
  • 14 Across Online crosswords, where everyone can construct a puzzle and solve others.
  • Crossword Puzzle Games Enjoy the many online crossword puzzles or create your own. Word puzzle helper also available.
  • The GardenWeb Crossword Puzzle Yes, a puzzle for gardeners!
  • grosswords.com These are humorous, topical puzzles that push the envelope. A little randy.
  • Hexaword Hexagonal Crossword Puzzle — by Ian Tresman, a UK constructor.
  • Monogram on Crosswords A wonderful exploration from barelybad!
  • The Puzzle Depot  
  • Puzzle Choice Twenty different types of crosswords to choose from plus wordsearches, quizzes, number puzzles, cryptograms, anagrams, brainteasers, logics, java puzzles and games
  • Puzzles By Jim American style crosswords of varying sizes and difficulty levels. Puzzles can be played online in your browser or downloaded and printed for offline use.
  • Triple Play Puzzles Trip Payne's professional website, with original puzzles, information about his books, and much more.
  • WordFit.com Daily Word Puzzles Daily printable crossword and fill in puzzles, plus a daily interactive crossword and printable Spanish, Swedish and French fill ins.
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Online Game Sites
  • Arkadium Games THE home of your favorite free online games including card games, word games, solitaire, crosswords & more. Instantly play the best online games for free!
  • Computer Renju A strong Java Renju/Go-Moku game. Free to play online.
  • CrosswordLovers.com Daily Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku, Word Search and Other Games
  • Crosswordprizes.com Interactive speed crosswords in timed competitions — aimed at bringing young people to crosswords
  • Garfield Games Crossword puzzles, Sudoku, and more. Free.
  • free jigsaw puzzles more than 400 jigsaw puzzles to play free online.
  • gameszoo.org Great free java games online: tetris, pac-man, arkanoid, mahjong and many others ... just CLICK'N'PLAY!
  • I Love Crosswords Over 1200 crosswords for crossword lovers from one of the most published crossword writers in the world.
  • JiggyPip.com We've got all the puzzles you crave, from classic Crossword Puzzles and Word Searches to new favorites like Kakuro and Picture Sudoku.
  • Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun Interactive Crossword Puzzles If you like crossword puzzles, this online game is just for you. This unique Flash game has 33 topics with over 4,635 words and clues. Each topic has two levels: one to challenge younger students and one for older students / adults. Each time you play the game, the system randomly selects words from the chosen topic and creates a unique puzzle grid. The built-in print function allows you to print a puzzle for playing off-line. Teachers can also print the puzzle already solved, to use as an answer key. Both kids and adults will find this game entertaining and educational.
  • Puzzability It's a promotional piece ... it's a game-player's delight ... it's both! Mike Shenk, Amy Goldstein, and Robert Leighton, three former editors from the glory days of Games Magazine, bring their magic to the net. The puzzles are super (gee, big surprise, eh!)
  • Puzzle Gems High-quality Free Online and Downloadable Puzzle Games.
  • Sue Gleason's Double Crostic Puzzle Page  
  • Thinks.com "The brain games, puzzles and pastimes website." It's a puzzle portal with all the stuff — postcards, toys, books, sounds, shopping, contests — and a daily crossword and word-find.
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Cryptic Crosswords
  • The Atlantic Puzzler Click on "The Puzzler." Available only to Atlantic subscribers.
  • Best for Puzzles Free daily online cryptic crossword, cryptic crossword tutorial, and more.
  • Clue-Solving for Beginners The Atlantic presents How to Solve Cryptics from Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  • The Crossword Centre The best UK site for tough cryptic crosswords. Monthly competitions, message board, mailing list and free software. The Crossword Utility is a neat piece of software for designing crossword grids and it is free.
  • Crossword Crazy Free daily online cryptic crossword, cryptic crossword tutorial, and more.
  • dowedo New crossword software including an Crosswords, Online Crossword Compiler, Find and Fit and Thesaurus
  • Electronic Telegraph cryptic crossword. Scroll to the bottom of the homepage and click on the "Crosswords" link.
  • The Globe and Mail Newspaper Daily cryptic puzzle Mon-Sat.
  • How to solve cryptic crosswords A Step-by-Step guide to solving cryptic crosswords. Ideal for beginners and solvers trying to improve. Huge list of online cryptic crossword resources.
  • Kegler's Kryptics One variety bar-style cryptic and one standard block-style cryptic posted the first of each month.
  • London Daily Telegraph Excelent cryptic puzzle requiring some knowledge of contemporary British idioms and goings on.
  • Lovatts Crosswords Lovatts daily online cryptic crossword
  • Peter's Cryptic Crossword Corner Site about cryptic puzzles by a winner of the Times Crossword Championship, nearest equivalent to ACPT in the UK in terms of prestige and press coverage. Includes a page about the Times Championship, and a links to solving blogs for the Times, Guardian and Independent puzzles.
  • Solving Cryptic Crosswords Brief free guide on how to solve cryptic crossword clues
  • Ximenes Crosswords , the great founder of the cryptic puzzle, is given a fitting and wonderful tribute in this website from Derek Harrison
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Crisscross style (with clues)
  • Container Gardening with KatG A visual gardening crossword puzzle using photos of plants and flowers instead of word clues/
  • clutu Crosswords you can play online with your friends
  • CompuCrissCross Challenging drag and drop word game. More than 2 billion unique crisscross puzzles for Windows 95, 98, or ME.
  • Histology-world Histology crossword puzzles
  • RangeNet Crossword Puzzles Free interactive and printable crossword puzzles. Public Lands Environmental Themes. Permission to reprint granted, plus RTF files on request for newsletters.
  • Writaur: Unleash your Creative Animal! You can create your own crosswords as well as do crosswords created by others. The website also offers word searches, madlibs, and interactive stories.
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Sudoku
  • FREE Printable Sudoku Puzzles Sudoku puzzles to print and solve. Two puzzles per page.
  • Printable Sudoku Puzzles Generate and print Sudoku puzzles in PDF format
  • Sudoku 9981 Sudoku puzzle game for Windows,with the color marking function and specific method to control candidate number,you can use the advanced techniques of sudoku more conveniently.
  • Sudoku Puzzles Unlimited free sudoku puzzles. Get a new puzzle each time you refresh your screen.
  • Sudoku Puzzles to Print Offers free printable Sudoku puzzles for all ages. Puzzles are divided into different levels of difficulty.
  • Sudoku Solver Shows you step by step how it was solved.
  • Websudoku This is a fantastic sudoku site. Play online or print and play; Billions of puzzles ranging in difficulty level from easy to evil.
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KenKen
  • KenKen The official site of "The World's Most ADDictive Puzzle!™"
  • New York Times Invented by Japanese math teacher, Tetsuya Miyamoto, KENKEN® allows you to test your puzzle acumen and improve your math skills at the same time. Exclusively on NYTimes.com, updated with 6 new puzzles daily.
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Other puzzles and diversions
  • All Jigsaw Puzzles Over 350 popular and hard to find jigsaw puzzles in the UK (from beginner to expert 1,000+ piece challenges)!
  • American Cribbage Congress Cribbage--a game for the number half of your brain! The website of the world's #1 cribbage organization lists upcoming tournaments, current standings, rules of play, and much more.
  • Biblewordgames Free monthly Bible crossword puzzle plus wordsearches, quotefalls and on-line games
  • Card decks of original word challenges by Will Shortz  
  • cdquizzes All the quizzes, crosswords, sudokus and other puzzles featured in Costa Blanca News
  • Cryptogram.org Tens of thousands of cryptograms to solve online. Or register a free account to compete against thousands of others in monthly competitions. Solution rates and record times shown for each puzzle.
  • The Da Vinci Game — codes, riddles, logic and trivia questions A board game for 3 or more players or teams where players race to solve challenges and collect treasures. Many questions are like those in cryptic crosswords with 200 anagrams and 200 cryptic riddles, 800 challenges in all.
  • Dell Magazines Dell Magazines
  • 8-SQUARE Crosswords - puzzles - chess
  • The ENIGMA from the National Puzzlers League
  • Free Online Interactive Word Games Hundreds in English, Portuguese and Bilingual From English to Portuguese, Spanish, French and German. Exclusive �Changeable Words�, a vocabulary word game in English. Thematic Word Search and daily sudoku, kakuro and crossword.
  • The Great Internet Duck Hunt Solve riddles, cryptic clues and puzzles in order to locate ducks that have been hidden around the internet.
  • HalfSecret.com Free Crossword Puzzles This site provides free crossword puzzles using a unique design that shows a technique that could be used for providing crossword puzzle games on a cell phone.
  • Jigsaw Puzzles & Jigsaw Puzzle Accessories Largest variety of jigsaw puzzles, jigsaw puzzle accessories & classic games at the best prices. Offers classic jigsaw puzzles & newly released puzzles & games like — Ravensburger, FX Schmid, White Mountain, SunsOut, Ceaco, Milton Bradley & more.
  • Just Riddles Collection of several riddles all at one place!
  • Language Games Have fun playing while Learning languages with www.languagegames.org online games! The games you will find here are much more effective at helping you acquire foreign language skills than other types of exercises. See by yourself!
  • Math Puzzle Martin Gardner celebrated math puzzles and Mathematical Recreations. This site aims to do the same.
  • Picture Puzzles "Made to Order" from your own Photos Turn your favorite photo into a Picture Puzzle for a unique and fun gift. Many sizes to choose from including large 1000+ piece puzzles. Upload your photo and order online today.
  • Printable Puzzles Great site for free printable fill in puzzles.
  • Puzzazz Puzzazz provides a quick, fun puzzle every day for everyone from casual puzzlers to serious puzzle addicts. Invite your friends for friendly competition.
  • Puzzle Game Heaven Puzzle Game Heaven offers the most popular puzzle games including crossword puzzle, jigsaw puzzle, mahjong puzzle, word puzzle, logic puzzle, ball puzzle, cubes puzzle, cards puzzle and more. Requires download of executable files to play.
  • Puzzlers Cave — The Online Crossword Community Play free quick, cryptic, and themed crosswords online. All crosswords are supplied by our members and are free to play online or can be downloaded as PDF documents to print or play at home. Also make your own crosswords with the free Crossword Compiler and publish them to Puzzlers Cave
  • Puzzles.com is a premier puzzle website about puzzles and optical illusions, magic and origami, scientific toys and math diversions, other things that involve intellectual recreations.
  • Quotefall Puzzles We are the most prolific resource for quotation puzzles on the Internet. We provide two free daily puzzles, with a 7-day archive, as well as a monthly Challenger quotefall puzzle.
  • Russian crosswords site Online crosswords and japanese crosswords (griddlers). Daily updates
  • Sixteen Across A crossword with a short story for each clue; the stories take place in a city whose streets echo the shape of the crossword.
  • terrystickels.com Puzzles from author and syndicated columnist Terry Stickels
  • Wholesale Puzzles Wholesale Puzzles is an online jigsaw puzzle site. We sell all brands and makes of jigsaw puzzles.
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For kids
  • Kids' Quest Crossword Puzzle from christiananswers.net
  • Kookerkids Welcome to the most unique kids site on the 'net! Featuring games, puzzles, feature stories, coloring, crafts and much more! Learn math, shapes, ABC's and more while having fun!
  • Miss O & Friends Fun puzzles with different levels of difficuty from Miss O & Friends (by girls, for girls)
  • Puzzles4Kids A website featuring great puzzles and activities for kids from 5 to 11.
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Word Search
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Non-English
  • 14 Across (Hebrew) Online crosswords in Hebrew, where everyone can construct a puzzle and solve others.
  • Puzzelcorner Dutch puzzlesite with online crosswords & cryptic crosswords, word finders, kriss kross puzzles and every month a prizepuzzle! Now also online English puzzles!
  • Daily Translation Crosswords Learn a foreign language with Crosswords! Daily Crosswords in German, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and French.
  • Denksportsite New Belgian puzzle site. Weekly puzzles and prizes, hot news and online competitions
  • Ludonews.com Des centaines de jeux de lettres, de logique et de culture générale pour tous les goûts et tous les niveaux : mots croisés interactifs, anacroisés, mots casés, mots codés, mots mêlés, puzzles, nombres croisés, quiz, Vrai/Faux, tests, concours, etc.
  • The Finnish Crossword Association  
  • fjalekryqi Albanian online crosswords, albanian anagrams, albanian quizes, logic problems, Kosova Puzzle Federation, albanian enigmology and other puzzles!
  • The French national crossword championship conducted by Jean Rossat (who spoke at Stamford in 2003), and which is held each year in the "two-letter towns" of Is, Aÿ, and Eu.
  • Gator.fr Online puzzles Online interactive Flash puzzles: classic, clues-in-squares and anagram crosswords, bar-the-words puzzles. Regularly updated free puzzles, and a subscription formula for the enthusiasts.
  • hapoter (Hebrew) In this site you will find a variety of puzzles, Sudoku, Nonogram, Quizzes, Crossword puzzles, Online thinking games and more
  • kruiswoordpuzzels free website for playing puzzles like sudoku, crosswords and jigsaws
  • Kruiswoordpuzzels - Crosswords Puzzles - des Puzzles des Mots Crois�s - Kreuzwortr�tseln - Xwoordpuzzels Thousands of free online crosswords in 4 languages
  • Kreuzworträtsel Online kostenlos mit Lösungen und Hilfe (Free download of custom-made german crosswords and other types of puzzles for PDF-printout
  • Kryds og tv�rs On Krydsord.dk you will find more than 20.000 members and more than 1000 cross word puzzles in 5 different degrees of difficulty.
  • Kryssakuten.se Kryssakuten.se is a search engine for swedish words. All searches are made in a dictionary containing more than 410,000 swedish words. Kryssakuten.se seaches for partial words (both crossword solver and part of word), anagrams and palindromes.
  • Land der Woerter Free vocabulary crossword puzzles in German, beginners to advanced. PDF-Printout & interactive.
  • Lingua Spectrum Word puzzles in English and Spanish for language learners - crosswords and variations, hangman, wordsearch, acrostic, anagrams, morphwords etc. Also non-word games like suduko and karuko and thousands of searchable quotations. Multimedia language lessons in English and Spanish.
  • Mots croisés — Jeux de lettres Site gratuit dédié aux mots croisés et aux divers jeux de lettres du même type. Grilles à résoudre en ligne ou à imprimer (mots croisés, muets ou grilles blanches, placés casés, codés ou anagrammes). Dictionnaire de recherche de mots avec conjugaison des verbes. Importante liste de liens.
  • R@selfieber German crossword portal. 12 different types of online crossword puzzles.
  • R@sel4U Gratis interactive german crossword puzzles for easy integration into your website.
  • A Recreativa Home Page The oldest crossword magazine from Brazil
  • Ruiter Puzzel Dutch puzzle site with a price puzzle.
  • Svenska korsord Korsord f�r alla
  • Tarkus Site of Tarkus, spanish puzzlemaker of "El País", with his crosswords, wordfinds, clues in squares and logic games.
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Pay for Play
  • YouPlay YouPlay has many puzzles and games to play online. Sudoku, Crosswords, Number puzzles, Word puzzles and more.
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Puzzle Contests and Competitions
  • Boswords Boston-based, seasonal Leagues and Tournaments, both online and in-person, individuals and pairs.
  • Finger Lakes Crossword Competition Crossword competition held annually in Ithaca, NY benefitting the Tompkins Learning Partners, a LiteracyNY affiliated non-profit.
  • Lollapuzzoola, the greatest summertime crossword tournament ever held annually on a Saturday in August.
  • Midwest Crossword Tournament Chicago-based crossword competition. Inaugural event October 5, 2024.
  • Westwords San Francisco Bay Area and Online crossword tournament. Inaugural event June 23, 2024.
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Books
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Blogs
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Forums, Listserves, Indices, etc.
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Computing & Algorithms
  • Programmer Of The Month contest We offer a different programming problem every couple of months simply for fun. Active forum and history dating back to 1993! The current POTM will ask you to create a crossword grid from a list of given words.
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Software and Online Construction Aids
  • Across Lite software Download a "complimentary copy" of their software which you need to solve the New York Times puzzle online. Plus explore their archives.
  • Anagram Genius Solves anagrams and creates relevant, grammatical anagrams of any subject.
  • BeCrossword for Palm Across Lite compatible crossword application for Palm OS
  • Clue Database Cool tool, lets you see pretty much every crossword clue that's ever been used.
  • Cogix Maker of Crossword Wizard, with its Java version available
  • CompuCrissCross Challenging drag and drop word game. More than 2 billion unique crisscross puzzles for Windows 95, 98, ME, or 2000. Free download. Free trial.
  • Crossdown Maker of Crossdown for Windows, Enigmacross for Windows, and Crossdown ClueBank.
  • Crossword Grids Free crossword grid designs for crossword puzzles in a variety of sizes
  • Crosswords for iPhone An iPhone/iPad/Mac app for solving Crosswords.
  • Crossword Power Tools A multilingual crossword puzzle maker/compiler and sudoku generator. It creates complete crosswords from scratch. Shareware, Windows and Linux.
  • Crossword Compiler will help you create, edit and desktop-publish crosswords. This is one of the favorites used by the pros. Created by Anthony Lewis.
  • Crossword Cracker Advanced program to help you solve words in crossword puzzles, as well as anagrams an scrabble features. The current version also has a german wordlist and others!
  • Crossworders' Dictionary And Gazetteer World's Largest Digital Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
  • Crossword Maestro Solves and explain cryptic and non-cryptic crossword clues in plain English.
  • Crossword Weaver automatically creates crosswords or criss-cross puzzles, with an emphasis on placing your theme words into either style puzzle. It suggests clues too. It has a WYSIWYG display and many layout and editing functions. Free demo version available.
  • CrozzWord CrozzWord for Sharp Zaurus lets you display/solve local and remote .puz puzzles(Across Lite format); direct access to many sites, including New York Times.
  • DRACULA Crosswords Builder DRACULA CROSSWORDS BUILDER is a complete high-quality suite of tools for : a) Crossword puzzles building (maximum dimension: 190 x 140, depending of the resolution of your screen). The user puts the "black squares" and the "fixed letters" and chooses the words list. After that, the program AUTOMATIC fills the entire crossword puzzle. Using the same pattern (template) can be built a lot of different crosswords. Further more, there is a feature that allows an automatic "rearrangement" of the "black squares" if for a specific configuration, the program didn't find any solution. b) Crosswords puzzle management ("view" / "print" / "export to excel" / "delete" ready made crosswords, "print" / "save" black squares configuration) c) Clues Management / Assistant. Include Merriam-Webster searchable dictionary (112000 words), and a track of previous defined clues for every word. d) Words lists management ("create" / "modify" / "delete" words lists). The included word lists are: — English_Pocket : 21000 words, based on English Pocket Dictionary — English_Unix : 25000 words, the dictionary distributed with most versions of Unix — English_Scrabble: 79000 words, scrabble dictionary. The words length is maxim 8 — English_Oxford: 105000 words, based on Shorter Oxford English Dictionary — English_Webster : 112000 words, based on dictionary. — English_Inter : 228000 words, based on Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition The program can be used 30 days for free. Needs: Pentium / min 64 MB RAM / 1 GHz — Windows 2000 / XP
  • FineCrosser Automated clues-in-squares crossword puzzle maker with picture feature.
  • Professional Crossword Software Official Site Welcome to fresh project site. Professional Crossword Software project is started. Main project goals are: * to develop high quality and low cost software for crossword composing * to connect crossword makers and solvers to work together building largest free online multilanguage enigmatic dictionary * to develop software for publishing and solving crosswords in digital form
  • Puzzleconnection.com Crossword and Word-Search construction software. Plus, puzzles to solve!
  • The Puzzle Depot This link has a terrific list of puzzle and Scrabble shareware and freeware software. Then link to their "Book Stacks" page for a sample newsletter edited by Stan Newman, to contests, games, puzzles, and lots of other great stuff.
  • Puzzle Express Software for Crosswords, Coded Crosswords, Fill In Crosswords, Word Search, Puzzle Packs, Math Squares, Solitaire Games, Tenpin, and WinGolf
  • ScribbleBox.com Free online Crossword Maker including grid creation and auto-filling of words.
  • Search Amateur Games — Crossword Puzzles Online Games, Downloads and Clubs
  • SoftSpot Software with great looking software to play the familiar word games we all love!
  • Stand Alone, Inc Across Lite Reader and completion tool for Palm OS
  • TooHot Crossword Puzzles Compiler Create custom crossword puzzles fully automatically using your own databases or built in clue-answer dictionaries. Puzzles can be exported as HTML or published as Online-Game with popular TooHot Open Source Java Applet.
  • Vocabulary.com Download a demo of Vocabulary University© puzzles
  • Word Fit automatically generates "Newspaper-Quality Crossword Puzzles"
  • The Word Gamer's Paradise This site features Vandelay Games and has a nice collection of reference and puzzle hyperlinks. Nice graphics; worth a visit!
  • Word Game Software Solve crossword puzzles and get any possible answers to your scrabble query
  • Word games — Free download by Yoogi games Download and play coded X-word, word search games and other word games
  • Wordsheets Create crossword, word search and word scramble puzzles from your list of words. Free working demo. Many automatic features help you quickly create great lookiing one or two page worksheets in portrait or landscape styles.
  • Word Search Creator Free software designed for teachers
  • WordSolverUK is a new PC program containing a word search (700,000 words for helping with spelling, crosswords etc.), an anagram solver and a thesaurus with over 1 million cross references and is written in English.
  • Word Web Pro a very good-looking Thesaurus/dictionary, word and anagram finder, also from meistro Anthony Lewis.
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Puzzle People
  • Australian Crosswords by David Stickley
  • Boston Cru An informal social group of avid crossword solvers and constructors in eastern Massachusetts.
  • Crosswords Puzzles Wordgames Crosswords and puzzles for newspapers and magazines. Cartoons too!
  • Kevin's Crossword Page This is a great looking site. He moderates a Crossword Constructors Forum from here and has lots of terrific puzzles and more and more links! Well worth the visit.
  • PeterPuzzle.com All about puzzle projects by Peter Grabarchuk, including puzzle products, books and publications, web puzzles, and other puzzle activities.
  • Fred Piscop on the Web with puzzles for you to enjoy solving.
  • Solve One Puzzle A Day Collection of daily Puzzles, Brain Teasers and Riddles. Try to solve one puzzle a day and check the solution in the next day.
  • Triple Play Puzzles Trip Payne's professional website, with original puzzles, information about his books, and much more.
  • terrystickels.com Puzzles from author and syndicated columnist Terry Stickels
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Merchandise
  • All Jigsaw Puzzles Over 350+ Popular and Hard to Find Jigsaws in the UK
  • The Crafty Puzzles Company Puzzles, Brain Teasers and Wooden 3D Jigsaws. Unique designs, shipped internationally.
  • Crossword Puzzle Dictionary This is something that is new and different to the crossword world and Cruciverbalists. The usual Crossword Dictionary deals as a reference for a single word clues but, to my knowledge, none concentrate on crossword phrases in the manner that this book does.
  • CrosswordUniverse.com Crossword Universe features themed crossword puzzles in a variety of categories including, music, movies, tv, sports and history.
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