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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 and Crossnumber. User defined types are also possible based on a set of rules Barred crosswords can be played/designed (bars added automatically)

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
Load different file formats (.puz, .kwp, .kwpz)
Export to many file formats (.puz, .kwp, .kwpz, .pdf, .ps, .png, .jpg)
Download lots of PUZ-files from the Internet.
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.

Give hints, check and solve crosswords.
Set confidence values for filled out letter cells.
A solution word can be defined by converting some letter cells to "solution letter cells" in edit mode. The solution word is displayed in a toolbar
Erasor tool to clear letter cells / whole clue answers.
Clue list in a dock, which also shows the current answers.

Edit crosswords (edit mode)

Add / remove / change clues and images
Change correct letters
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

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.

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

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