Craft crossword variants that stand out from the crowd. Learn how to build grids, customize layouts, and create clues that engage your audience. These tutorials show you how to balance challenge and fun, whether you’re designing for a classroom, publication, or personal project.
Block Fill (a cut-up crossword; Dutch *Blokpuzzel*) hands you a filled crossword that has been sliced into small square blocks and shuffled. You rebuild the grid by fitting every block back into place, starting from a few letters already printed on the board. This guide explains the goal, the rules that make it solvable, and how to play it online.
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This tutorial explains how to use Puzzle Maker Pro – Word Spiral and Secret Word Spiral. This tutorial applies to two Puzzle Maker Pro puzzle types: The main tutorial for Crossword Variations shows all the steps and information that applies to all the different puzzle types. Introduction Both Word Spiral and Secret Word Spiral offer
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This tutorial shows how to create Criss Cross puzzles with Puzzle Maker Pro – Criss Cross. The main tutorial for Crossword Variations shows all the steps and information that applies to all the different puzzle types. Introduction Criss Cross is a type of crossword puzzle where words are loosely connected to each other, like the
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This tutorial shows how to create Secret Word and Letter Hint puzzles with Puzzle Maker Pro – Secret Word Column. The main tutorial for Crossword Variations shows all the steps and information that applies to all the different puzzle types. Introduction Secret Word Column is an acrostic Crossword puzzle where a list of words is
How to use Puzzle Maker Pro – Secret Word Grid (Video Tutorial)
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This tutorial shows how to create Secret Word and Letter Hints crossword puzzles with Puzzle Maker Pro – Secret Word Grid. The main tutorial for Crossword Variations shows all the steps and information that applies to all the different puzzle types. Introduction There are many different types of Secret Word and Letter Hints Crossword puzzles.
This videos shows how to use Puzzle Maker Pro – Secret Word Criss Cross (formerly known as Acrostic Criss Cross)
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This tutorial shows how to create Secret Word and Letter Hints crossword puzzles with Puzzle Maker Pro – Secret Word Criss Cross. The main tutorial for Crossword Variations shows all the steps and information that applies to all the different puzzle types. Introduction There are many different types of Secret Word and Letter Hints Crossword
This tutorial shows how to set up Word Lists for Crossword Variations. It applies to: Introduction There are quite a few options to add information to your word lists and word list files. If you want more and specific control over the puzzles that are created, you can use all of the options. Alternatively, Puzzle
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This tutorials shows how to create Crossword Variations with Puzzle Maker Pro. It applies to: Introduction Crossword Variations is our collection of all puzzles based on the crosswords format. There are many types of crossword variations: This tutorial provides an overview of all the options and features in the Crossword Variations module, that you can
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