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Need a great puzzle with no fuss?
Crossword Weaver^™ is the tool to use.

What professional reviewers have to say:

"I've used similar programs in the past, but this is by far the best....If you like crossword puzzles, this program is a gem." Computer Connection

Highlights

Crossword Weaver has all of the features you would expect, including: make multiple puzzles from a single word list, make an unlimited number of different puzzles, and draw your own patterns of blocked and open squares (with automatic symmetry, if you want it). You can even make puzzles in creative shapes. And that’s not all. Crossword Weaver has many features that are rare or unique in crossword puzzle software:

Rare and Exclusive Features
and what they mean to you

• Put your words into crossword puzzles! This is what Crossword Weaver is all about--putting your words into puzzles, both newspaper style and free-form.
• Very easy to use--simply enter a list of words, press a button, and within seconds your puzzle appears!
• Makes puzzles that most people can solve--not just experienced crossword fans. With Crossword Weaver, you can safely introduce people to newspaper style crossword puzzles, even if neither of you has ever made or solved one before. Crossword Weaver automatically avoids obscure, obscene and little-known words. Of course, you can still make brain twisting puzzles for experienced solvers if that is what you want.
• Crossword puzzle dictionary specially edited for making puzzles. It gives you access to over 50,000 words and clues appropriate for crossword puzzles. This makes it simple to get a perfect puzzle every time! No need to wade through a general-purpose dictionary, thesaurus or solver's crossword puzzle dictionary.
• Automatically assigns clues--Most of the work is already done for you! And these clues aren't just synonyms pulled out of a thesaurus or dictionary, these are actual crossword puzzle clues! Choose from alternate clues provided, edit those listed, or write your own clues of any length. Your choice. Why spend hours toiling over clue writing when Crossword Weaver gives you clues instantly?
• Desktop Publishing features included to make the layout of your page a snap. Print right from Crossword Weaver or export to other Windows programs.
• Shows you exactly how your puzzle will print! What you see is what you get--you don’t have to print to find out!
• Two puzzle styles--both shown below:
  1--The newspaper style puzzle mixes some of your words with dictionary words. This results in a beautiful symmetrical puzzle. In this example, sixteen animal words (shown in color) are mixed with ordinary well-known words (black).
  

  2--The free-form puzzle uses only your words. A puzzle style for every need!
  

Recommended for:

Educators: Give yourself a needed break while ensuring your students are learning. The free-form puzzles are perfect for teaching because they contain only your words. This is reason enough to buy the software, but there's more. After you've made several wordlists, Crossword Weaver can easily make newspaper-style puzzles that your students will love! (Their parents will be impressed too.) Students love doing crossword puzzles, but until now they couldn’t solve the newspaper style puzzles because the vocabulary was beyond their grade level. Now you can make similar puzzles that your students can solve. And best of all--up to one-third of the answers in your newspaper-style crosswords can be from your word lists.

Newsletter editors: What a way to add pizazz! Just drop in a puzzle and you’ll turn your readers into fanatics! Puzzle lovers will open you newsletter first, starting with the puzzle. You can make as many puzzles as you want from one word list on your newsletter topic. Make your list once and reap the benefits all year!

Businesses: Perfect for training puzzles, presentations, marketing, or as hand-outs to customers. People love solving crossword puzzles. So much the better if they have your message in them!

Greeting cards: Friends and family will love getting a custom puzzle for birthdays, holidays and other special occasions. Hint: Send enough copies for the whole family (because the one who gets the mail solves it first!). You can send them inside a greeting card, or as the greeting card.

Just for fun: One customer said, "You mean you have software that can make customized crossword puzzles? If I could do that, I would never leave the house!" These puzzles are so much fun to make and solve, you’ll want to make sure you aren’t too busy before you sit down with this software! You can make an unlimited number of puzzles. Increase your brain power, impress friends and family, or just have fun.

And more! Professional speakers, employee trainers, seminar leaders, magazine publishers, newspaper publishers, webmasters, religious teachers, etc. The list goes on and on!

Crossword Weaver is distributed by Variety Games Inc.
115 East 900 South, Orem, UT 84058
Phone: 1-800-229-3939 or 801-765-9233
Hours: 9am to 9pm Monday through Saturday, MST. Closed Sundays
e-mail: webmaster