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Design Consideration
  1. Start by choosing the dimensions of your crossword.
  2. Next, place letters and black squares, ideally forming a symmetric pattern.
  3. When squares are flagged with a red border, there is a two letter word. They are not allowed, so another black is needed.
  4. The design must include at least one letter as a seed for the calculations to develop. However, you can also use one or more seed words.
  5. If you want a 'hidden message' in the solution, start by placing the message. That will set some black squares and will affect the symettry.
  6. If you are designing a Codeword then make sure the initial seeds contain the letters, Q, U, V, J, B, K, W, X and Z. It ensures that these low frequency letters are used.
  7. Check that final solution contains all the letters and redesign and recalculate if necessary.
First, design your crossword or codeword using the Design tab. Then click Search. The display is updated every few seconds while calculating.

This page helps you prepare the clues for your crossword - the clue layout and the identification of possible anagrams.
This page gives some tools to help solve existing crosswords rather than tools to design them in the first place. These tools can be used to explore the dictionary.



This routine searches the dictionary with wildcards and lists all the relevant words,

c*n** -> CANOE
c*n?l -> CENTRAL
c?n?l -> CARNIVAL
?a?e?i?o?u? -> ABSTEMIOUSLY

*
represents a letter
?
represents a string of letters (or no letter)

This routine will examine the letters in the textbox and find all direct anagrams. Multi word anagrams are specified with commas

canoe -> OCEAN
row,enod -> ONE WORD

This routine will examine the letters in the textbox and find all the words contained in those letters. In particular, it will identify the longest contained word.

argumentative -> GRAVITATE

This page assists with Wordle by displaying the remaining wordpool after entering your guesses. When you enter a guess into Wordle it responds by colour coding each letter. If you enter these letters and colours into this page, you will be presented with the remaining wordpool - the possible answers.

Select a letter and apply it to the correct place in the guess. Multiple clicks on that square will cycle you through the background colours: grey, orange, green and clear.

Once all the guesses are entered, click on the button "Get Word Pool."


Select a letter and apply it to your next guess. Keep clicking to cycle through the colours.

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