For Teachers

Crossword Forge is the premier application for creating crossword puzzles and word search puzzles for teachers. Amazing flexibility to make a puzzle on any subject combined with the power to customize the look and feel of the puzzle makes Crossword Forge the best crossword puzzle maker out there.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if teachers could spend more of their time teaching.
That's why we have lots of import options to make your job as simple as possible.
Also, Crossword Forge exports to text, pdf, image, and the web.

Elementary Ed
  • Crossword Forge supports LARGE PRINT letters of any size. Perfect for early and special needs learners.
  • Allows word search puzzles, so that you can help kids concentrate on the letters that they are learning.
  • You can customize the shapes of your puzzles. e.g. a heart-shaped word search puzzle for valentines day. Learn More...
"I just wanted to thank you again for a terrific and easy-to-use product. My students raved about what a great studying tool crosswords and word search puzzles are. Grades jumped up significantly, immediately after I started to use them, this past spring semester. I will continue to use them throughout my career."
 Bob Allen -- Crossword Creator (Professor of Biology, Santa Ana College, CA)

"What a great product, thank you very much."
 Graham Brunskill -- Crossword Puzzle Maker
Secondary Ed
  • Crossword Forge helps you protect against accidental profanity in your word search puzzles.
  • With no limit on the size of the grid or the size of words used in that grid, your puzzles can use words and definitions that are as complex as you want.
Math and Science
With full unicode support, you can use any math and science symbol in your puzzles, including subscripts and superscripts. e.g. the chemistry crossword puzzle on the left shows the chemical formulas for sulfuric acid and water.
Volume Discounts are available for multiple purchases as well as school or district licenses. We are happy to accept Purchase Orders. Learn more...
ESL and Foreign Languages
Includes language presets from Arabic to Spanish and everything in between. You can even make dual language puzzles e.g. your clues can be in Spanish and your answers in English or vice versa.
Crossword Forge also supports right to left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew, and supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures like Punjabi. In fact, it even supports the thousands of ideographic characters found in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Learn more...
Spell Checker
A built in Spell Checker to help ensure your puzzles are free from awkward or embarrassing spelling mistakes.

More Cool Features


Add variety and challenge to your puzzles by adding word banks with distractors or scrambled words, bonus questions for both crossword and word search puzzles, and word searches that require you to answer a question before finding the word.