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KrossWordPuzzle is a crossword playing game and editor.

Introduction

You can use KrossWordPuzzle to play crosswords or to create new crosswords. It can open and save *.puz-files (AcrossLite) and it's own *.kwp files (which are XML files) or *.kwpz (which are compressed *.kwp files). You can download lots of crosswords from within the game.

Screenshots

Features

• Many crossword types:

• American
• Swedish
• Number Puzzle
• Crossnumber
• User defined crossword types based on a set of rules
• Barred crosswords can be played/designed in each type (bars added automatically)
• See Crossword Types for a detailed description of the different crossword types

• Many cell types:

• Empty Cells
• Letter Cells
• Clue Cells (containing the clue text, eg. for swedish crosswords)
• Double Clue Cells (two half clue cells inside one cell in the crossword grid)
• Image cells (can be stretched across multiple cells, can display local or remote images)
• Solution Letter Cells (all solution letter cells of a crossword form it's solution word)

• A Library, to store crosswords in

• Add crosswords in different file formats to the library (.puz, .kwp, .kwpz)
• Download lots of .puz-crosswords from the Internet directly into the library
• Export to many file formats (.puz, .kwp, .kwpz, .pdf, .ps, .png, .jpg)
• Thumb creator for crossword files. It's used to get thumbnails for crosswords in the library. Can also be enabled for crossword files in dolphin.

• Print crosswords, print preview

• Themes. There are currently three themes available: Default, Scribble and an Egyptian theme.

• Features in Playing Mode (edit mode not enabled)

• Give hints, check and solve whole crosswords or single answers/letters
• Set confidence values for filled out letter cells
• Clue list in a dock, which also shows the current answers
• Eraser tool to clear letter cells / whole clue answers
• Context menus for all cells
• Easy navigation using the mouse and/or the keyboard, there are also navigation commands in the Move menu and in the toolbar
• Fill out crosswords by selecting clues and writing the answer with the keyboard directly in the crossword view

• Edit crosswords (edit mode)

• Add / remove / change clues and images
• Change correct letters
• Interactively change selected cells in a dock (clue texts / orientation / answer offset / dictionary / ..., image sources / cell span / ...)
• Convert between crossword types
• Resize the crossword grid
• Move all cells in the grid
• Interactively change answer-lengths by dragging a bar after the last letter cell of a clue
• Check for 180 degree rotation symmetry
• View statistics
• Templates for new crosswords
• Undo / redo for all edit actions. The undo stack can also be saved with the crossword in XML files
• A dictionary to find matching answers for new clues
• A solution word can be defined by converting some letter cells to "solution letter cells". The solution word is displayed in a toolbar
• Context menus for editing

• Restore lost crosswords after a crash of the game (hopefully there is none ;)).

Using KrossWordPuzzle

This chapter explains the use of KrossWordPuzzle as game and as crossword creator/editor.

Settings

This chapter explains the setting possibilities of KrossWordPuzzle.

Crossword Types

This chapter gives an overview of supported crossword types and information on how to create a custom crossword type based on a set of rules.

KrossWordPuzzle has a page on kde-apps.org, where you can download the latest sources and binary packages for various distributions.

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Support for this application can be found from the project's home page