Word Search and Word Search Screensaver Game Software for Windows

Word Search Construction Kit
$24.95 - Insight Software Solutions

Word Search 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, 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 to 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.

Word Search 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, Optionally include clues, Scramble the word list, Use clues instead of words, Hidden puzzle phrase, Print Answer Key, 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.

---

---

Word Search Puzzles
$10 - Tracker Software

Solve word search puzzles on your computer, print them out for solving elsewhere or save them for finishing later. There are also options for changing colors, fonts and the circling method. You can also choose not to have the word list displayed. The shareware version includes five puzzles, the registered version 100. The program is fully functional.

---

---

Dougs Word Search
$9.95 - Command Line Software

Create and play your own customized word search puzzles or download puzzles (by the author and other users) from the web directly into the program. Play it "On-Screen" or "On-Paper". Play your puzzle on-screen by dragging circles around the hidden words or print it out and play it on paper. Uses a unique "Best-Fit" algorithm to create tight professional quality puzzles. Print puzzles with a background picture representing the subject of your puzzle. Save puzzle to a picture file and import it into word processors, etc. Features include a built-in spell checker, the ability to pre-seed words, optional timer, optional hints and sounds, multiple paper sizes and print preview. Written by the author of over 6000 published puzzles.

---

Crossword Forge
$49.95 - Sol Robots L.L.C.

Crossword Forge is an easy to use classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker. It quickly generates puzzles from your words for the web, print, and PDF.

Features:
-Generate high quality Flash web, print and PDF puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
-Type puzzle data directly, or import it from many different text formats
-Built-in spell checker
-Unlimited undo and redo
-Support for restricted word lists in word search mode (i.e. helps eliminate accidental "naughty words" in your word search puzzles)
-Bonus Clues for Crossword and Word Search
-Multiple puzzle titles
-Font, Style, Size and Justification controls
-Unlimited clue and answer length
-Color and Picture backdrops
-Customizable Across and Down text
-Supports puzzle grids of any size
-Puzzle clues can span multiple pages
-Customizable grid block size
-Allows for manual puzzle repositioning within backdrop
-Crossword Options
-Toggle Clue and Word Bank Visibility (supports fill-ins)
-Word Bank Scramble
-Word Search Options
-Show Clues or Word Bank
-Word Bank Scramble
-Toggle Backwards and Diagonal Words
-Built-in Support for making foreign language crossword puzzles.
-Built-in Language Sets Include: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese etc.
-Support for characters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks (great for Spanish, French and German puzzles).
-Support for Right to Left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew
-Supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures like Punjabi
-Full Unicode support.

---

Word Search
$0 - Novel Games Limited

In this game you need to search for a word that matches a given meaning. The word will appear in a large grid of letters, and can orient in all different directions such as from left to right, from bottom to top, from bottom right to top left, etc. If you cannot figure out the word from the meaning you can also press a hint button to get the word, but your score will be deducted.

---

Puzzle Player
$14.95 - Insight Software Solutions

Puzzle Player allows users to solve puzzles created with Crossword Construction Kit or Word Search Construction Kit on their computer. Trade puzzles with friends, family and colleagues or download puzzles from our Puzzle Connection web site.

Puzzle Player is a less expensive alternative for teachers and corporate trainers. Use a single copy of Crossword Construction Kit or Word Search Construction Kit to create puzzles. Install Puzzle Player on workstations to allow students, employees, family and friends to solve the puzzles.

Puzzle Player is a fun way for others to solve the great puzzles you create. Timers and sound effects can be utilized to enhance the experience.

---