Crossword puzzle
Add your words and clues, and the crossword grid builds as you type. Play it online, share it or print it.
Puzzel.org for publishers
A games section readers come back to every day.
A crossword, a daily word game, a quiz on the week's news, a jigsaw of today's photo. Made in your own editor, in your house style, and embedded on your site, behind your paywall too if you like.
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ready-made ideas
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activity types among them
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languages the player screens speak
Generators
Puzzles for your games section
A daily crossword, a Wordle or a sudoku gives readers a reason to come back. Each one is made from your own words and can sit on your own site, beside the article or on a games page.
Wordle
Make your own Wordle: a custom Wordle-style guessing game with your own words, at any word length.
Sudoku
Pick a size and a difficulty and a sudoku with one solution is generated for you. Play it online, share it or print it.
Word search
Add your words, choose their directions and watch the word search take shape. Play it online, share it or print it.
Arrowword
A crossword with the clues inside the grid, arrows and all — also known as a Swedish crossword or arrow word. Type your words and clues and the board lays itself out.
Jigsaw puzzle
Turn any photo or image into a jigsaw puzzle: upload it or paste a URL, pick the piece count and your online jigsaw is ready to play.
Why it fits
Why publishers add games
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A daily habit
A puzzle is a reason to come back tomorrow. Give each one the date it opens, and next week's games are ready before the weekend.
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A reason to subscribe and stay
Embed a game on a subscriber-only page and it sits behind your paywall like any other story. Keep another one free to bring new readers in.
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Games only your title could make
A word game on today's headline, a jigsaw of this morning's front-page photo, a quiz on the week's news. The content is yours, so the game is too.
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In your house style
Your fonts, colours and logo, with no Puzzel.org header around an embedded game.
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A finish that leads somewhere
End with your own message and picture, and a link back to the story the puzzle came from.
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Quick to make, every day
Type the words and the grid builds itself. The AI writes clues for bare words, or drafts a quiz from an article you paste in.
Features and integrations
How the games get onto your site
Each of these comes with every paid plan, unless it says otherwise.
A new puzzle every day, by itself Give a list of themes once. Every day or week, AI writes a new puzzle on the next one and your embed shows it. One AI credit a puzzle, on the Ambassador, Trainer and Academy plans.
Embedding Show an activity inside your own website, without the Puzzel.org header around it. Your own branding Your logo, colours and background images on the activity.
Who gets in, and when Private activities, a password, and a date the activity opens.
Finish message Your own message, picture, confetti and completion code, and a link that sends players on. Webhooks and page signals Results sent to your webhook, or to the page the activity is embedded in. API Create and update activities from your own system.21 ideas
Games for the daily games page
Each one is a real activity: play it the way your players will, then copy it to your account and make it yours.
Self-paced practice
8 Crossword puzzle
Vocabulary crossword
Terms and definitions, laid out for you. The classic review, and answers are still there when they come back.
Strands
Theme of the week
A board full of letters, a riddle for a theme, and one word that runs from edge to edge and ties it together.
Wordle
Word of the day
Five letters, six guesses, a clue from the lesson, and a result they can share without spoiling it.
Map quiz
Find the continents and oceans
The seven continents and five oceans on a blank world map. A name is shown, and players click where it is.
Map quiz
Flags of Europe
Fifteen European flags, one at a time. Players click the country each flag belongs to on a blank map of Europe.
Logic puzzle
Science fair logic puzzle
Four pupils, four projects, four time slots. Seven clues, one answer, worked out one cross at a time on the grid.
Sudoku
Daily sudoku
The classic 9 × 9 at mid-week strength: one solution, no guessing, and a fresh board whenever the slot needs one.
Crossword puzzle
News quiz crossword
Every clue is a story from this week's paper, with the letter count in brackets. Readers who kept up fill it in, and the rest find out what they missed.
Higher stakes
1Hidden messages
5 Word search
Secret-message word search
The grid has no spare letters. The cells left over spell a message, and typing it finishes the puzzle.
Fallen phrase
Quote of the week
The letters have dropped out of their columns. Put them back and a line worth remembering reads across the board.
Rebus
Proverbs in pictures
Five proverbs written as a rebus. Change a letter under a picture, or say it out loud, and the saying reads back word by word.
Word search Premium
Shaped word search
The grid is cut to the shape of a picture: a heart, a star, your logo. The words hide inside the outline.
Word scramble
Newspaper jumble
Five scrambled words, and the shaded letters in their answers unscramble once more into the punchline of a riddle.
From a picture
3 Jigsaw puzzle
Photo jigsaw
Any picture cut into pieces: organic shapes, a tray to sort them in, and pieces that stay together once they fit.
Sliding puzzle
Pycto puzzle
The Pycto-style picture puzzle. Every piece of the photo is on the board, just in the wrong place. No gap, no numbers: players swap two pieces at a time until the picture is whole.
Hidden objects
Find-it scene
A busy picture and a strip of cut-out pieces to find in it. A short freeze after a wrong click keeps guessing honest.
Trails and escapes
1Stands and launches
2 Arrowword
Newsletter puzzle
A Swedish-style puzzle for the back page of the staff mail. Clues sit in the grid, and the numbered cells spell the word readers send in.
Quiz
Which kind are you?
No right answers, just a result about the player. Every answer moves them along one scale, and where they land is their outcome.
Plans
Business plans, sized by how many readers play
Every business plan includes embedding, your own branding, open dates and results. They differ in player sessions a month: Ambassador grows in blocks of 5,000, and a national readership is a conversation about Enterprise.
Supporter €100 / year
or €10 / month - 1,000 player sessions / month
- Unlimited activities
- White-label embedding
- Results tracking
- AI question generation
Ambassador €200 / year
or €25 / month - 5,000 player sessions / month
- Everything in Supporter
- Add sessions as you grow
- Single sign-on (SSO) over OpenID Connect or SAML
Enterprise · 30,000+ player sessions a month
Games across several titles, or for a national readership? We size one plan to what all your readers play.
Questions
Can we put games behind our paywall?
Yes. An embedded game shows wherever you place it, so on a subscriber-only page it is for subscribers only. You can keep one game free to bring readers in.
Where does the puzzle content come from?
From you: your words, clues, photos and stories. The editor builds the grid, and the AI can draft clues or a quiz from an article you paste in. There is no ready-made daily feed.
Which sites does it work on?
Anywhere an iframe is allowed, such as WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Google Sites or your own CMS. One account can put games on several titles.
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