Crossword Construction Kit 4.0b

Crossword Construction Kit is a great tool for educators, students, publishers, corporate trainers and puzzle enthusiasts to quickly produce professional looking puzzles. Just enter the words and clues, select a puzzle shape and page layout, and press a button to generate the puzzle.

Design your own puzzle page layout -- drop, place and size the puzzle, graphics and text components onto the layout. Create the puzzle and print. In minutes you'll have a great looking puzzle. Or, export the puzzle to the Windows clipboard, as a bitmap, JPEG, or metafile to load into your favorite graphics program.

Besides creating puzzles for print, you can create interactive puzzles to solve using the Puzzle Player included with the software. Upload puzzles to web pages where visitors can play and solve the puzzles online. Include timers, sound effects, etc. to enhance the experience.

Crossword Construction Kit is invaluable for teachers, corporate trainers and others who need to quickly generate puzzles for their students, employees, friends and family.

Features: Spell check in 8 different languages, 50,000 word thesaurus for help in generating clues, Create puzzles in different shapes using included shapes or Design your own, Organize puzzles by category, Manually fit in additional words & clues, Print Answer Key, Partial Answer Key, or Selected Letters as hints, Design your own page layout, Select fonts, colors, columns, borders, alignment & more, "Make It Fit", Choose paper size, Export completed puzzles as a graphic image, or in a playable Java format.

What's new in this version: Major upgrade to user interface. Solve puzzles on any java enabled computer.