The Word Ducks Around a Corner.
Look Inside is a filled grid on a path that turns. Paste this week’s list. They hunt a word that ducks around a corner. You already have the inked path for the back of the book.
Try the free demo. Demo output is watermarked. Paid files are watermark-free.
If Look Inside Is Still a Ruler-Line Grid
This is the sample that turns. Drop these turning-path pages and the path keys into Instant Puzzle Books at that same trim.
A 5×5 After the Test. Stay Near 10×10 for a Class Period.
Twenty-five letters is the quiet sheet after a test. A class period stays near a hundred. Stretch toward 50×50 only when this week’s list can cover that page, not a short worksheet.
Paste the List. The Path Keys Go in the Back.
One paste, then a stack: puzzle pages up front, path keys in the back of the book.
The run builds complete boards from this week’s list. When the leftover letters cannot fill another grid, you already have the stack for the book.
Instant Puzzle Books keeps your trim and writes the title page, contents, and a footer from each student grid to its path key. Export that book as an interactive PDF book and those links click.
Puzzle Book Studio opens this one collection when a turning-path page needs an edit. Instant Puzzle Books and Puzzle Book Studio both produce interactive PDF books.
Try the free demo, then pick Zig-Zag Word Search at the top of this page.
Who This Is For
Publishers listing a word-search title. Look Inside is a filled grid on a path that bends. That is the listing.
Teachers and tutors. This week’s list is the board. Path key in the back.
Publishers already in Puzzle Maker Pro. If Look Inside is still a ruler-line grid, drop these turning-path pages beside the straight-line books you already ship.
Try It Before You Buy
Run your own list in the free demo. Demo output is watermarked, one puzzle at a time. Paid files are watermark-free.
What Ships With Zig-Zag Word Search
Zig-Zag Word Search is this listing: this week’s list on a turning path, the inked key, Instant Puzzle Books, and Puzzle Book Studio. Interactive PDF books come from Instant Puzzle Books or Puzzle Book Studio.
Licensing and Commercial Use
Zig-Zag Word Search lets you sell the finished books, worksheets, and printable packs you make to your own readers and customers, on KDP, Etsy, Teachers Pay Teachers, or your own store. One-time commercial-use license. Watermark-free files.
The licence covers the finished books, worksheets, and packs you make for your own readers. If you add your own word lists, they need to be yours, or licensed for the store you sell on.
Product Details
| Product | Puzzle Maker Pro – Zig-Zag Word Search |
| Platform | Windows desktop |
| Internet required | No for creating puzzles. Optional AI Word Assistant needs a connection |
| Rule | Words sit on a path that can turn through a filled square grid. Letters connect left, right, up, or down. The solver follows neighbour cells along each word’s path |
| Grid sizes | 5×5 to 50×50 (default 10×10) |
| Letter count | A 10×10 needs 100 clean letters, or fewer letters plus optional fill |
| Word list | Typed lines or a .txt file |
| Word-list control | Auto (default), Repeat, or Reset |
| Fill letters | Optional. Default off. You choose the letter pool, and a max or unlimited |
| Quantity | 1 to 10000 maximum. Auto stops when the list cannot fill another complete grid |
| Output per run | One puzzle image, one matching path-key image, and a used-words text file per puzzle |
| Output formats | JPG, PNG, transparent PNG, SVG |
| Solution images | Path of each word, for the solutions section in the back of the book or the teacher page |
| Puzzle books | Instant Puzzle Books; Puzzle Book Studio (this one collection); title page, table of contents, solution cross-references; interactive PDF books from Instant Puzzle Books or Puzzle Book Studio |
| Upgrades | You can add other Puzzle Maker Pro products later |
| Commercial license | Sell the finished books, worksheets, and packs you make to your own readers and customers |
| Free demo | Yes |
| Delivery | Immediate, in your member area |
Questions Before You Buy
Is there a free demo?
Yes. Puzzle Maker Pro has a free demo. Demo output is watermarked. Paid files are watermark-free.
Can I upgrade later?
Yes. You can add other Puzzle Maker Pro products after you buy. This page is Zig-Zag Word Search.
How does zig-zag word search work?
Words sit on a path that can turn through a filled square grid. Letters connect left, right, up, or down. The answer image inks each turning path so you are not tracing it by hand.
Can I use my own word list?
Yes. Type the lines or load a .txt. The run builds complete boards from the list. When the leftover letters cannot fill another grid, you already have the stack.
What size should I start with?
10×10 is the usual start. A 5×5 is the quiet sheet. Stretch toward 50×50 only when this week’s list can cover that page.
What files do I get?
A puzzle image and a matching path-key image (JPG, PNG, transparent PNG, or SVG), plus a used-words .txt per puzzle. Instant Puzzle Books stacks the puzzle pages and path keys into the interior. Puzzle Book Studio opens that one collection when a page needs an edit.
Can I sell the finished books and worksheets I create?
Yes. Zig-Zag Word Search lets you sell the finished books, worksheets, and printables you make to your own readers and customers.
Do I need the internet to create?
No. You create on your Windows PC. A connection is only if you ask the assistant for a stack of single words.
Is this Standard Word Search?
Standard Word Search hides words in straight lines. Zig-Zag Word Search puts them on a path that can turn. They are separate products.
Try the free demo. Then pick Zig-Zag Word Search at the top of this page.
The path can turn on a filled grid. Your list. The matching path key. Instant Puzzle Books. Try the free demo.
