Crossword Forge 7 is a puzzle maker designed for Mac. With its help, you can create your own word-search puzzles or crosswords and share them with other people who enjoy solving riddles as much as you do.
Creating crosswords with this program is very simple. The application enables you to enter your own words alongside their description, use the integrated Word Ideas tool whenever it's necessary, and preview your puzzle once you finished altering it.
Personally, I like solving word-search puzzles more than crosswords. So, I created a level. I entered the words that needed to be found within the board and the app filled the rest of the puzzles with random letters. I like the fact that the program provides you with a multitude of puzzle customization options. For instance, you can add a background image to your crossword or change the color of the puzzle board.
You can then export your projects to various formats (TXT, PDF, JPEG, PSD, PNG, TIFF, etc.), print the puzzle directly from the app's interface, or share it on your website with just a few clicks.
To sum things up, this application proves to be a reliable solution for creating puzzles on your Mac. It's easy-to-use, offers you many output settings, and is available in various languages.
v7.2 [Apr 12, 2012]
- Fixed a problem where Crossword Forge would sometimes unexpectedly clear the puzzle if you left the mask editor open after issuing a clear command. Broken in version 7.2.
- Now updates the puzzle mask editor when you make a puzzle or undo making a puzzle.
- Paste now works again for the Puzzle Mask Editor. Broken in version 7.2
- It's now possible to add an explicit space in the puzzle mask editor by holding the shift key and space. Keep in mind you'll need to have "Extract Spaces" turned off in your language preferences, otherwise the spaces in your answers will be removed and will fail to match your explicit spaces in the mask.
- This version includes improved puzzle sharing between the Mac and Windows editions of Crossword Forge. We fixed a bug in which puzzle masks weren't always written and loaded in a cross platform way.
- Typing a return when making a mask, no longer causes a corrupt puzzle mask to be written, but rather advances typing to the next line in the puzzle mask editor. Crossword Forge 7.2.1 will automatically correct puzzle files corrupted by this bug. You can also hold the option or shift key when importing a mask file to correct it.
- Fixed error caused by performing multiple undos and redos when making the puzzle.
- Calling redo repeatedly for a Make Puzzle command was not making the same puzzle as previously. This has been fixed. Broken in version 7.0.
- Other minor improvements added.
