Make A Crossword Puzzle for Free
Solving crossword puzzles is real fun. What about creating it? Well, if you love solving Soduku and other crosswords in magazines, newspapers and on internet, then you should think of creating one on your own. There are various websites that allow you to make a crossword puzzle free.
Creating on-line crossword puzzle is really easy. You can simply go to the relevant sites and make your own crossword puzzle and share it with your friends and other members.
Following are some of the guidelines that will help you to understand how you can make your own crossword puzzle free.
STEPS
- Select a subject for your crossword puzzle. Make sure that you go for a theme on which you have some knowledge. It is always better to select a topic or subject with which you are familiar and have hold over it. This will help you prepare better and more confusing puzzle. The more the crossword is puzzling, the greater is the fun.
- Now prepare a set of answers that will form your crossword puzzle. While making the list determine the difficulty level that you want to set for the puzzle. If you want to make your crossword puzzle trickier then select long words for the answers.
- Also make a list of clues for every corresponding answer. Use creative and tricky clues for the answers. The clues make the crossword really interesting. So, use your intellect and creativity to develop interesting and tricky clues.
- Now go to any of the sites that allow you to make crossword puzzle free where you simply need to enter the answers and clues and it will automatically create the puzzle. Some of the sites suitable for free crossword creator include http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html, http://www.edhelper.com/crossword_free.html, http://edhelper.com/crossword_free.htm etc.
- Select any one site. For instance, go to http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html. There you will find a format that will ask for 20 words and related clues for each word. Fill in the spaces with the words that you have prepared in advance.
- Now beside each word enter the clue you would like for that word. Click “create puzzle” and you puzzle is created.
- This particular site offers free cryptogram maker that can help you to create more and more of your own word puzzles.
Another method that you can try for creating your own puzzle free is as follows:
- Go to eclipsecrossword.com and click on the download link to get a free copy of Eclipse Crossword software.
- Now install this software and click on the program, select “I would like to start new crossword puzzle” and then click “Next”.
- Create the word list consisting of words and clues for the puzzle. If you are using the software for the first time then start a list from scratch and avoid using a list that was previously saved. Now click “Next.”
- Give a name to your crossword. Click “Next.”
- Now select the puzzle size. Select an appropriate width and height for the crossword puzzle. Click “Next” and the software will create the crossword puzzle for you.
- In case you don’t like the word arrangement, you can go for some other configuration or lay out that you find suitable. Once you find your configuration click next.
- Save the crossword puzzle. You can either get it printed or save it save as a web page so that you can post it online or publish it.
- Test your crossword puzzles
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