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Crossword Forge - 6.0.3

Create/share crossword and word search puzzles.

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Release Date:	2009-09-19
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 6.0.3):	412
Downloads (all versions):	81,846
Price:	$49.95

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Product Description:

Crossword Forge is an easy to use classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker. It quickly generates puzzles from your words for the web, print, and PDF.

Features:

Generate high quality Flash web, print and PDF puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
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 in this version:

Users on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (and possibly others) can now unlock Crossword Forge.
Removed spurious error that appeared at the start of Crossword Forge Live puzzles.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

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Versions - Version: 6.0.3, 9/20/2009 03:01AM PST

(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)

snoogly

You gotta love the rapid release of versions.

Best looking crosswords - Version: 5.5, 9/16/2008 01:38PM PST

(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)

Elmar Bertschinger

I am using this programm many years and it is the best looking crossword programm.
But I have one wish: Make it working with Moodle (like the Hotpotatoe-plugin).

Love the program but... - Version: 5.1.10, 7/5/2007 04:55PM PST