<p class="highlight-text">I see regularly that schools use Puzzel.org and that is awesome! A feature that will stimulate this use, is the option of having automatic answer checking enabled/disabled. </p>
<p>The answer checking makes sure that every entered answer within the puzzle is being checked against the actual valid answer. This happens via an encrypted route though, so no one will have access to the real answer. When the answer turns out to be false, the colors stay neutral as visual feedback.
<p>In combination with the user-friendly use of Backspace, Tab and the Arrow Keys, it is very easy to undo wrong answers and to jump to the next question.</p>
<h2>Answers plus end solution</h2>
<p>Besides that, there is a nice feature with which you can connect a final solution to the puzzle, when someone has deciphered all of the answers containing 'hint squares'. This ultimate goal of the puzzle gives a little extra dimension and makes it usable for prize questions.</p>
<h2>Security</h2>
<p>To be able to use Puzzel.org online, for schools, it is necessary to block any kind of spying on the real answers, even for the smart and technically adept children :). To facilitate this, Puzzel.org saves the answers encrypted. When a puzzle player checks the answer, it runs the same encryption and checks if the encryptions match.</p>
<h2>Disabling answer control</h2>
<p>As a premium feature, there is the option to disable answer control as well. This will allow teachers to manually check and grade a puzzle based on the filled in answers. </p><p>It is also a bit more difficult for the students this way, since you do not know if your filled in answer is valid or not.</p>

All filled in answers will be corrected automatically. No more manual checking for teachers!

Puzzles with Automatic Answer Control

<p>In class, it is often cumbersome to have to think of all the answers yourself while helping students or not having an overview of the filled in puzzle.</p>
<p class="highlight-text">
But the solution is here! I have integrated a special answer key within crossword puzzles (and wordseekers, for that matter) to help teachers out.
</p>
<p>
The answer key for crossword puzzles is available via all of the <a href="/en/pricing">Premium-subscriptions</a>. On the Publish-section when creating your puzzle, you can switch the answer key on/off and these changes are then automatically converted to the printable puzzle, so you can easily print versions of the crossword puzzle with and without answer keys.
</p>
<img src="/static/crossword-answer-key.png" />
<h2>Printable version</h2>
<p>The printable version is customized, to remove the colors from the correct answer key cells, so it saves colored ink.</p>
<img src="/static/crossword-puzzle-answer-key-printable.png" />
<h2>Try it out!</h2>
<p>If you join Puzzel.org as a teacher (or another premium subscription), you can easily create infinite puzzles with answer keys for during the classes.</p>
<p><a href="/en/pricing">Join here</a> or <a href="/en/crossword/create">create a crossword puzzle with answer key directly</a> if you are already a member.</p>

Teachers can now easily look up the answers on their own answer key!

Crossword Puzzles with Answer Keys

<p>To me, to decide which crossword puzzle maker is the best, we need to look at a couple of important details / features.</p>
<h2>Functionality</h2>
<p>The most interesting part about creating a online crossword puzzle maker, is the options you have when adding functionality. Since it is a digital product, there are way more interesting puzzle options compared to create just a printed crossword puzzle.</p>
<p>Puzzel.org has functionality ranging from <a href="/en/general/with-statistics">registration + statistics</a> to playing a puzzle in <a href="/en/features/create-crosswor/teams">multiplayer/team-mode</a>. Any feature you desire, this crossword puzzle maker will have it or try to build it for you! :)</p>
<img src="/static/features/best-crossword-puzzle-features.png" />
<h2>Integration</h2>
<p>It is also essential that you as the puzzle owner have options to integrate the puzzle into your own online habitat as well as possible.</p><p>By including a neutral crossword puzzle setup as a starting point (white background) it will always blend in. But, you also have your own brand & styling wishes and that is why there are <strong><a href="/en/features/general/customizable-puzzles">custom styling options</a></strong>.</p>
<h2>Pricing</h2>
<p>Crossword puzzles are not an easy feature to build from scratch, especially if you want to manage your puzzles later on as well. That's why letting other companies create a custom builder, will take a lot of time and thus costs. The best crossword puzzle maker should have an affordable pricing and profit from scaling up to a lot of users instead of charging a couple of users for a lot.</p>
<h2>Puzzel.org</h2>
<p>In my humble opinion, Puzzel.org has done its best to achieve all these important characteristics and will always try to improve the existing setup with the always helpful feedback of its users.</p>
<p>Would you like to try out the best crossword puzzle maker? <a href="/en/crossword/create">Let's go!</a></p> 

The best crossword puzzle maker you will find online with loads of features!

Best Crossword Puzzle Maker

<p class='highlight-text'>
Extend the crossword puzzle maker into your courses with ease! Just for teachers! Embedding crossword puzzles within your Canvas LMS environment is done within a few clicks after the setup.
</p>
<h2>Why use the integration?</h2>
<p>
Currently you need to create the puzzles at Puzzel.org, copy the embed code and then make sure you embed the puzzle correctly by adding it to the source code. 
</p>
<p>Time to reduce some hassle and make it more easy!</p>
<h2>Using the integration</h2>
<p>
The first step to get set up, is to visit the LMS integration page of <a href='https://www.eduappcenter.com/apps/1089/'>Puzzel.org on the EduAppCenter</a>. Follow the installation instructions there (or ask your IT guy/gal to help with the integration)
</p>
<p>
Then test your first puzzle by following the next instructions:
<ol>
<li>Create a new assignment and edit it</li>
<li>Click the new black/yellow Puzzel.org editor icon in the Rich Content Editor and log in with your Puzzel.org account (only needed the first time)</li>
<li>Pick the puzzle you would like to embed into the assignment</li>
<li>Wait for your awesome puzzle to be loaded into the editor as an iframe</li>
<li>Choose Submission-type of 'Online' with File Upload enabled</li>
<li>Save & Publish</li>
<li>Fill in the puzzle (or not), hit save as image above the puzzle, and upload the downloaded image into the assignment via the Canvas 'submit assignment' button</li>
<li>Check SpeedGrader and there is the image! :)</li>
</ol>
</p>
<h2>Missing something in the integration?</h2>
<p class='highlight-text'>
Do you have ideas on how to improve the integration or make it even more useful for you and other teachers? Let me know! (<a href='mailto:daan@puzzel.org'>daan@puzzel.org</a>).
</p>

Extend the crossword puzzle maker into your courses with ease! Just for teachers!

Canvas LMS with Easy Puzzle Integration

<p class="highlight-text">Creating your own cryptic crossword puzzles online has never been so easy!</p>
<p>Schools, puzzle fanatics and companies can now directly enter answers and descriptions and automatically combine them into an online and interactive cryptic crossword puzzle.</p>
<p>No more unneeded mental capacity for combining the answers in a fitting grid. All your energy can be put into discovering new fun and challenging cryptic descriptions.</p>
<h2>Why cryptic crossword puzzles via Puzzel.org?</h2>
<ul>
<li>A big part of the website is completely <a href="https://puzzel.org/en/pricing">free</a>!</li>
<li>Automatic verification of the answers</li>
<li>Mobile-friendly interface and a user-friendly website overall</li>
<li>..and a lot more <a href="/en/features">features</a>!</li>
</ul>
<h2>Example layout cryptic crossword puzzle</h2>
<p><a href="https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/play?p=-L1v2n-yhlUB-bGDzGol"><img src="/static/zelf-cryptogram-maken-voorbeeld.png" alt="cryptic crossword puzzle example" width="497" height="452" /></a></p>

Creating cryptograms online has never been so.. non-cryptic!

Create Cryptic Crossword Puzzles

<p>
    Building a crossword puzzle is one challenge, but building a custom
    crossword puzzle, now that is interesting! Since day 1 I have wanted to
    enable users to customize crossword puzzles in such a way that they
    integrate well within their own website so they feel very personalized and on point.
</p>
<h2>Custom crossword puzzle styling</h2>
<p>
    The first part of customization is the styling. Enabling crossword puzzle
    makers to add their own brand look and feel is of utter importance,
    especially for the small businesses, magazines and larger corporations that
    want to use the puzzles for their target audience.
</p>
<p>
    Puzzel.org currently offers the following styling customization options to
    build a custom crossword puzzle to your own liking:
</p>
<ul>
    <li>Primary color (highlights)</li>
    <li>Secondary color (contest cells)</li>
    <li>Cell size</li>
    <li>Font (puzzle + questions)</li>
    <li>Black squares (integrate your logo or a different custom image)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Custom crossword puzzle functionality</h2>
<p>
    The second way you can customize your crossword puzzle is by adding
    functionality that a normal paper / generated crossword puzzle does not
    have. This part to me (as a developer) is even more interesting since it
    opens many doors to awesome combinations of solving the crossword puzzle.
</p>
<p>
    Custom crosswords could consists of any number of features, including the
    following existing options here at Puzzel.org:
</p>
<ul>
    <li>
        <a href="/en/features/create-crossword/with-solution"
            >Crossword puzzles with solution</a
        >
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="/en/features/create-crossword/teams"
            >Crossword puzzles in teams</a
        >
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="/en/features/general/with-stats"
            >Crossword puzzles with statistics and registration</a
        >
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="/en/features/general/answer-control"
            >Answer Control (enabled / disabled)</a
        >
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="/en/features/create-crossword/answer-key"
            >Answer Key (for print)</a
        >
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="/en/features/create-crossword/with-pictures"
            >Crossword puzzles with pictures as descriptions</a
        >
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="/en/features/general/math-puzzles"
            >Crosswords as a math puzzle</a
        >
    </li>
<li><a href="/en/features/general/with-custom-success-message">With custom success messages</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Custom custom crossword puzzles</h2>
<p>
    You are creative. And that is why there are always ideas you think of that I
    haven't thought about earlier. And that is great! I am always open to new
    custom ideas and extending the number of options for the crossword puzzles
    (secretly my favourite puzzle type! :)). If you have an idea that does not
    match the current crossword puzzle setup, just let me know and I will look
    into it: <a href="mailto:daan@puzzel.org">daan@puzzel.org</a>
</p>


Create a custom crossword puzzle that matches your look, feel and functionality! Personalized all the way.

Custom Crossword Puzzle

<p class="highlight-text">
Easily create a custom word search puzzle with your own words and print it if you prefer this above the interactive version.
</p>
<h2>Custom print version</h2>
<p>
Printing (and saving) your own word search puzzle is so easy via Puzzel.org! You can even adjust the size and font of the descriptions if you would like to pay 3 dollars. More ideas to customize the print version even more, are always welcome.
</p>
<h2>Why print, play online!</h2>
<p>I started Puzzel.org to improve the oldschool variant of printing puzzles and solving them with pen and paper. Undoing wrong answers, and saving some trees are some of the benefits of the online, interactive word search version. Plus, if you would like to become a premium member, you can even add cool features such as a <a href="/en/features/general/with-custom-success-message">custom success message</a> at the end, which can act as a <a href="/en/features/create-wordseeker/with-hidden-solution">word search with hidden solution</a>!
</p>

Create your own custom word search with ease and print it

Print a Custom Word Search Puzzle

<p class="highlight-text">
The crossword puzzle maker that creates fully personalized and customized crossword puzzles, which combines perfectly with embedding puzzles on your own website.
</p>
<h2>Add custom styling</h2>
<img src="/static/features/custom-crossword-example.png" />
<p>
With a number of simple options you can now easily add your own custom styling to the crossword puzzle. The options that are currently available:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Image instead of black squares</li>
<li>Logo</li>
<li>Primary color</li>
<li>Secondary color</li>
<li>Fonts</li>
<li>Size of the crossword puzzle cells</li>
</ul>
<img src="/static/features/custom-styling-example.png" />
<p>
Each puzzle can be customized in its own way, so please experiment, discover and surprise your puzzle players with your unique crossword puzzles!
</p>
<h2>Print?</h2>
<p>
Even within the print-version, the styling is applied just the way you would expect it. Create thematic crossword puzzles with awesome background images and matching colors!
</p>
<h2>Create your own custom crossword puzzle</h2>
<p class="highlight-text">
You can easily <a href="/en/crossword/create">create</a> your own custom crossword puzzle as a premium user by filling in your puzzle questions/answers <a href="/en/crossword/create">here</a>.
</p>

Create custom puzzles with styling and features

Customizable puzzles

<p class="highlight-text">With just a little bit of code you can embed a crossword puzzle, and all of the other puzzle types, within your own website with ease!</p>
<p>At Puzzel.org I want to ensure that the online sharing of crossword puzzles is as easy as possible. I have therefore made a special, clean version of the crossword puzzles which can be embedded nicely!</p>
<h2>Why embed a crossword puzzle?</h2>
<ul>
<li>It's fun and awesome! :)</li>
<li>Directly available to the visitors of your website</li>
<li>More engagement from your visitors</li>
<li>In combination with some of your own styling/logo, the embedded crossword puzzle will be an integral part of your website.</li>
</ul>
<h2>How does the embedding work?</h2>
<p>All of the features and styling are being loaded from the Puzzel.org servers. Therefore you don't need to implement any fancy code, except the embed-code of your own crossword puzzle. This works in the same way as embedding a YouTube-video. The example code looks as follows:</p>
<p><textarea style='font-size:20px; border: 0; outline: 0; border-bottom: 5px solid black;'class="code-snippet" cols="60" readonly="readonly" rows="5">&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe src='https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/embed?p=-L1v2n-yhlUB-bGDzGol' width='750' height='750' frameborder='0'&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</textarea></p>
<p class='highlight-text'>
Embedded puzzles are also available via Wordpress by installing the new Puzzel.org Wordpress plugin! A new experiment that is interesting to try out! :) - <a href='/en/features/general/wordpress-plugin'>
Discover the new Wordpress Plugin
</a>
</p>
<p class='highlight-text'>
Are you using the Canvas LMS as a teacher? - <a href='/en/features/create-crossword/canvas-integration'>
Discover the LTI Canvas LMS integration for crossword puzzles
</a>
</p>
<h2>Embedded puzzles are premium</h2>
<p>
Embedding puzzles is a premium feature, which means it is available to you as a teacher for 30 dollars per year, or as a non-teacher for 10 dollars per month. You can read more about the pricing <a href="/en/pricing">here</a>.
</p>
<h2>Custom puzzles</h2>
<p>To make sure that the puzzle is in its optimal form, you can also adjust the width/height of the iframe in the code above. This also impacts if a scrollbar is shown or not.</p>
<p>
A different way to customize the puzzle is to make use of the brand new custom styling feature. This allows you to create a personalized puzzle which fits your website perfectly. Read more about <a href= 'https://puzzel.org/en/features/create-crossword/with-custom-styling'>customized crossword puzzles</a>.
</p>

Sharing your custom built puzzles from your own website and/or LMS with ease

Embed Puzzles into your website

<p>To create the best possible experience for everybody, I have created a free standard without needing an account to start creating puzzles.</p>
<p>The free puzzle maker at Puzzel.org ensures that students and hobbyists can easily create puzzles without having to reach into their pockets and pay for this service.</p>
<p>If you started out for free and want to get the most of your puzzles, then it might be time to check out the premium features and consider joining Puzzel.org as a premium subscriber.</p>
<p class="highlight">You can already join as a teacher for 30 dollars per year. Or just try out the features first for 10 dollars for one month: <a href="/en/pricing">Check it out</a></p>
<h2>Limitations</h2>
<p>To strike a balance between free and premium, there a couple of fair use restrictions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Maximum of 60 visitors</li>
<li>Maximum of 2 puzzles saved in your account</li>
<li>No premium features</li>
</ul>


The free online puzzle maker that has a great free tier! No software required.

Free Online Puzzle Maker

<p>To make it more easy to create and solve (cryptic) crossword puzzles, and find other (puzzle) lesson methods&nbsp;as a teacher, I am building a list of handy resources that can help you with these challenges.</p>
<p>Do you have a good recommendation? Please let me know via <a href="mailto:daan@puzzel.org">daan@puzzel.org</a>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Inspiration Resources</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.mathguide.com/">MATHguide.com - All sorts of cool mathematical resources for teachers&nbsp;</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

Discover awesome other websites that offer puzzle help.

Inspiration

<p>The best thing about puzzles I think, is to share and play them online. It is becoming increasingly more popular to use online learning management systems, magazines and newsletters and puzzles area great way to tap into this movement.</p>
<p>Interactive puzzles are not easy to build yourself and require quite some logic to be able to load, save and register the accompanying data. This is what Puzzel.org specializes in.</p>
<p>The interactivity combined with user created puzzles is a combination that strikes the right note for teachers, magazine makers, marketing/engagement goals and other creative purposes.</p>
<p>I have built many interesting features to accompany and strengthen the interactive puzzles, like for example:</p>
<ul>
<li>Crossword puzzles in teams</li>
<li>Puzzles + Registration functionality + stats</li>
<li>Custom styling opportunities</li>
<li>Multiplayer Memory</li>
<li>And a lot more!</li>
</ul>
<p>To learn more about the different options, please check out the puzzle builders themselves, and dive into the different settings/premium/publish tabs to see all of the options.</p>

Create interactive puzzles online and share! Easily fillable digitally!

Interactive Puzzles - Playable Online

<p class='highlight-text'>To add an interesting element for online competitions, I added the option to register user information once the puzzle has been completed! :)</p>
<h2>Know your puzzle players</h2>
<p>A lot of companies would like to be in touch with their puzzle players after the puzzle has been completed. The lead generation feature achieves this with great ease! It allows to gather the name, email and phonenumber (optional) of the user.</p>
<p class='highlight-text'>Do you need extra fields? Let me know your idea via <a href='mailto:daan@puzzel.org'>daan@puzzel.org</a></p>
<h2>Export puzzle players</h2>
<p>To allow the greatest flexibility, Puzzel.org allows for an Excel-export (xlsx) of the gathered leads. This way, you can easily import the data into the software of your choice and use it in any way you like.</p>
<h2>How to use?</h2>
<p>To use the lead generation feature, you will need to activate the '<a href='/en/features/general/with-custom-success-message'>Show (custom) success message on solving puzzle</a>'. This allows for multiple custom options, one of which is the lead generation option.</p>
<p>Just check the 'Ask for contact information' option and you are all set to go! :)</p>
<h2>More / other ideas?</h2>
<p class='highlight-text'>
Do you have additional ideas on connecting with your puzzle players? Let me (<a href='daan@puzzel.org'>daan@puzzel.org</a>) know and we can look at the options.
</p>

Generate leads via your puzzle players and register their information for an awesome competition! 

Lead Generation via Puzzles

<p>I know you math teachers out there enjoy puzzles and that is why I wanted to expand the current genres being used within the puzzles of Puzzel.org!</p>
<p>Most crossword puzzles have restrictions on the input needing to be characters from the alphabet, but why exactly? Wouldn't it be awesome to gather hints and numbers while solving math equations, just like you gather characters when solving normal crossword puzzles?</p>
<img alt="math crossword puzzle" src="/static/features/math-puzzle-example.png" />
<h2>Introducing math puzzle options</h2>
<p>By allowing creative character input and having descriptions in multiple forms (images / sentences), you can even show visual representations of math challenges. Puzzles are always a fun and low threshold question form which is what math and math teachers sometimes need (or actually the math students)</p>
<h2>More ideas</h2>
<p>I have just touched the surface with this math crossword puzzle idea, but it would be great to increase the number of user generated math puzzles out there with different puzzle types.</p>
<p>Currently I do not have any extra inspiration, but if you do and just need someone to implement it, let me know and I will look into it! :) - <a href="mailto:daan@puzzel.org">daan@puzzel.org</a></p><p>In the meantime, <a href="/en/crossword/create">enjoy the math crossword puzzle creator</a>!</p>

Make math puzzles an integral path of your lessons as a teacher. Make math fun again!

Math puzzles - Create your own

<p>To make the puzzles as accessible as possible, there is support for any language you would like. Currently there is only English and Dutch, but there is room and functionality to create extra translations right now!</p>
<p>I have built my own translation system which is accessible and editable online once you contact me and offer to help. I will give you access and we can start translating the relevant labels for your goal as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Are you for instance a teacher from France, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Germany, Indonesia, or somewhere else? Please contact me at <a href="mailto:daan@puzzel.org">daan@puzzel.org</a> and I hope we can work together soon!</p>
<p>If you help me translate more then just a few labels, then we could setup a deal where you get a premium account in return for your translation services! :)</p>

Currently available in Dutch and English. New languages are welcome!

Multilangual Puzzle Support

<p class="highlight-text">
Quartets games also deserve to be able to be played on multiple channels. From now on, quartets games are also available for sharing and playing online, in the classroom.</p>

<h2>For the teacher</h2>
<p>The teacher / quartets-maker only has to share the quartets-link with the students and the game can begin!</p>
<img src="/static/features/quartets-game-preview.png" />
<h2>For the students / players</h2>
<p>
As a player, you only have to go to the shared link and fill in your name. If there isn't an active online game yet, then the system will automatically create one.
</p>
<p>Next, you can adjust the number of players needed to start the game, to 2, 3 or 4 players. If the game is full, the game will automatically start and others will not be able to join anymore.
</p>
<h2>The course of the game</h2>
<p>At the start of the game, the cards are shuffled and a random player is chosen to start picking cards. The current players is always shown at the top of playing field. Next, the current players chooses a person and asks a valid card</p> 
<p class="highlight-text">Pay attention, only the cards from the same set as a set of a card that you already have, are allowed. The Puzzel.org system will make sure this is validated, so no worries :).
</p>
<p>
The goal is to build up as many quartets as possible and then the winner is selected when all quartets are complete!</p>
<h2>Two game formats</h2>
<p>
The owner of the quartets game has the freedom to change the settings to a normal quartets game or a quartets game with a learning question. The normal quartets game plays out the way you would expect. The version with the learning question is a nice online variation with an educational twist, which I have written about here:
<br /><br />
<a href="/en/features/create-quartets/with-learning-question">Quartets with learning question</a></p>


Make your quartets game available online and offline!

Online Quartets Game

<p class="highlight-text">Our online crossword puzzle maker creates printable and online playable crossword puzzles very easily via our mobile- &amp; userfriendly website. Ideal for teachers, companies and puzzle lovers!</p>
<p>For automatically generating your crossword puzzle, we have implemented several algorithms that help to create the best possible crossword puzzle.</p>
<p>The same algorithms can also be used to <a href="/en/features/create-crossword/cryptogram">create cryptic crossword puzzles</a></p>
<h2>Crossword Puzzle Maker Algorithms</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Compass-algorithm</strong>: This one makes sure that as many words as possible are entered into the generated crossword puzzle grid</li>
<li><strong>Light-algorithm: </strong>After placing as many words as possible, the Light-algorithm tries to reduce the number of black squares and select the crossword puzzle with the most connections between answers.</li>
<li><strong>Custom algorithm</strong>: Do you have a specific idea in mind for your (crossword) puzzle? I love to help you out. Send an email to Daan of Puzzel.org (<a href="mailto:daan@puzzel.org">daan@puzzel.org</a>).&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<h2>Crossword Puzzles for Teachers &amp; Students</h2>
<p>I love the fact that the use of (crossword) puzzles within education enrich the learning experience of the students. But the necessary tools to accomplish this online from your own school LMS (Learning Management System), were not available. That's why I started Puzzel.org, to create the technology that enables teachers to easily generate crossword puzzles from their own learning materials.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Teachers, you are the pillar of this society and I hope to help in any way I can by developing new tools or further&nbsp;improving the current crossword puzzle maker. If you have any questions or ideas about&nbsp;the Puzzel.org platform, please let me know. &nbsp;</p>
<p class="highligh-text">To accompany the development of puzzles within education, I have created a premium teacher account that enables even more features specifically for teachers, like removing advertisements from the puzzles, answer keys, disabling answers and collecting statistics!</p>
<p><a href="/en/pricing">Check out the Premium Teacher Subscription</a></p>

The best crossword puzzle generator out there!

Online Crossword Puzzle Generator

<p>Everbody likes visuals! Instead of reading a question you can just take a look and check out the image in front of you. It still may be in the form of a <a href="/en/features/create-crossword/with-pictures">crossword puzzle with pictures</a> for example, but at least there are pictures!</p>
<h2>Build puzzles with images</h2>
<p>Since everybody learns differently, it can be a nice change for some students or puzzle solvers to step into a visual challenge. Puzzel.org understands this need and offers all sorts of puzzle makers which include pictures.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/en/slidingpuzzle/create">Sliding Puzzle Maker</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/quartets/create">Quartets</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/memory/create">Memory</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/crossword/create">Crossword puzzle with pictures</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/wordseeker/create">Word search with pictures</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/scavenger-hunt/create">Scavenger hunt</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Sometimes premium</h2>
<p>Some of the puzzle types require a premium subscription to be used with images (crossword / word search), but the others are all free from the start since the essence of the puzzle includes pictures. Upgrading can always be done afterwards if you like the basics :).</p>
<h2>Your picture puzzle maker</h2>
<p>Do you have different ideas with which you would like to make awesome picture puzzles? Just let me know your concept and I will look into expanding the current options with your idea: <a href="mailto:daan@puzzel.org">daan@puzzel.org</a> </p>

The picture puzzle maker with all kinds of puzzle type support. Great for kids too via the visual clues!

Picture Puzzle Maker

<p class="highlight-text">Create and find printable crossword puzzles easily online!</p>
<p>Before you can print your own crossword puzzle, you will first have to create one. Or, if you are looking for (cryptic) crossword puzzles that have been created by other people, check out the 'As an example layout, look at <a href="https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/play?p=-L1v2n-yhlUB-bGDzGol">this example puzzle</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/play?p=-L1v2n-yhlUB-bGDzGol"><img src="/static/kruiswoordpuzzel-printen-voorbeeld.png" alt="printable crossword puzzle example" width="497" height="452" /></a></p>
<h2>Premium versus free puzzles</h2>
<p>The free printable crossword puzzles are a good and simple way of utilizing my crossword puzzle generator for puzzles that you want to use for yourself or a small group. It contains the ads, the footer, and some other less clean details but is functional either way. To use a representative version of the printable crossword puzzle for a birthday or other occasasions, I would advice to pay the small 'gift' amount use your own styling.&nbsp;</p>
<p>At Puzzel.org I will make sure that the printable version of the premium crossword puzzle has its own styling, so irrelevant parts like the menu, logo and buttons will not be shown while printing. As long as the puzzle isn't too big, it will fit on one A4-page. When it doesn't fit immediately, you can always try to adjust the printer settings from 'Portrait' to 'Landscape'.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Besides that, it is possible to use your own images instead of the standard neutral black squares! This is pretty awesome and funny for someone's birthday, for example.</p>
<p><img src="/static/puzzel-daan.png" alt="printable crossword puzzle premium" width="800" height="556" /></p>
<p>The premium printable crossword puzzles of Puzzel.org are always clean and will only contain the crossword puzzle, the questions and the name of the puzzle.</p>

Printing puzzles to enjoy puzzles the oldschool way! Printable for players and puzzle makers.

Print Crossword Puzzles

<p>You are puzzeling online and all of a sudden you have to leave or the computer does something crazy. Pity, all of your filled in answers are gone! Or you would like to make a puzzle online but after you have created it, it isn't reachable or adjustable anymore.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="highlight-text">There must be better ways to solve this, we thought at Puzzel.org.</p>
<h2>Puzzle saved online while playing</h2>
<p>We built a nifty feature that makes sure that filled in answers are saved locally in your browser. This is a feature that is available for most modern browsers. See the diagram below to check if yours supports local storage.</p>
<p><a href="http://caniuse.com/#search=localStorage"><img src="/static/lokale-opslag-kruiswoordpuzzel.png" alt="save crossword puzzle locally" width="600" height="224" /></a></p>
<h2>Puzzle saved after creating it</h2>
<p>For the other challenge we had to make sure that people who wanted to use our crossword puzzle maker, could easily access their puzzles later on. So we needed an account form. A place where all of your developed puzzles could easily be found and stored.&nbsp;</p>
<p>To accompany this process, we improved the workflow for our users by facilitating users to use crossword puzzle maker without having an account. After creating the puzzle, you can then choose to create an account and save the created puzzle automatically within your new account!</p>
<h2>Puzzles also saved without an account</h2>
<p>Just to let you know, puzzles are also saved once you build your puzzle without an account. It ends up in a temporary account which is hooked to your current browser session. If you create an account afterwards, then your account + created puzzles will automatically be converted to the new account and the puzzles will magically also be there! :)</p>

Save your puzzles in your own private account so you can always edit and manage them

Saveable puzzles

<p>Due to the awesome online nature of the puzzles, they are also very capable of being shared via the social media like Facebook and Twitter.</p>
<p>By sharing a direct link to  a puzzle, or by embedding the puzzle on your own website first (great engagement!), you can easily engage your users via social media and organize all kinds of contests, challenges and other fun interactions.</p>
<h2>Customize your puzzles</h2>
<p>When choosing the premium integration, you can even customize the way your puzzles look and make sure they fit your brand strategy at the social media.</p>
<h2>Multiplayer</h2>
<p>Some of the puzzles even have team/multiplayer options to let your audience engage together and solve a puzzle simultaneously or in a sort of competition. All with interesting stats to accompany this cool real-time functionality :).</p>

All puzzles are shareable via social media, because they are playable online!

Puzzles on social media

<p class="highlight-text">All questions, comments and custom requests are very welcome via <a href="mailto:daan@puzzel.org">daan@puzzel.org</a>&nbsp;or +31614277844.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Do you encounter a problem, then please let me know. Puzzel.org is being improved upon daily and thus the improvements you see are always interesting to hear.</p>
<p>The support is available for all type of accounts and I'll react within 12 hours to your diverse requests.</p>

I love helping people. Please share your feedback.

Support / Contact

<p class="highlight-text">One of the most fun ways to puzzle / play, is the multiplayer-form, in which you try to solve problems together! And with a little bit of competition, it is even more awesome!</p>
<img src="/static/features/crossword-teams-preview.png" />

<h2>As a teacher</h2>
<p>To facilitate this for schools, I have built a feature where the teacher can construct teams or let Puzzel.org construct the teams at random. After you start the crossword puzzle for teams, you will receive a link to share with the students. Then, you will see the students join the teams in real-time, on your overview-page.</p>

<p>After the teams are complete, start the battle between the teams! You will be able to see the stream of correct answers live on your overview page. This way, you will know the progress of the teams and which team finishes first! It is awesome to show this overview / team-progress on a central screen such as a digital schoolboard, so students themselves are aware of the progress of other teams.</p>

<h2>The students</h2>
<p>Via the link, students can fill in their name and pick a team, or be randomly divided into teams, depending on your settings. Afterwards, they will have to wait until the teacher / puzzle-owner starts the crossword puzzle battle. This will be accompanied by a short countdown clock :).</p>  
<p>
The players within the teams will then work on the solving of the crossword puzzles. Every correct answer will be shared directly with the other team-members and will appear in their own crossword puzzles. This way, everything will stay up to date and you can really work together as a team, in real-time. Multiplayer-style!
</p>

<h2>Try it out!</h2>
<p>Solving crossword puzzles with multiple players at the same time is a unique feature which I hope teachers and students will enjoy!</p>
<p><a href="/en/crossword/create">Create a crossword puzzle for teams!</a></p>
<img src="/static/team.png" width="100" height="100" />

Solve a puzzle together, at the same time! As a teacher, great to use in your electronic classroom!

Crossword Puzzles in Teams

<p>Puzzles are fun, but only if the interaction with them is easy and intuitive. Especially on devices like a smartphone or tablet, it can be a bit more daunting to have an overview and match the questions with the correct part of the puzzle.</p>
<p>To help the puzzle player out, I have tried my best to create responsive puzzles that resize themselves to the given screen size and stay in view as well as possible.</p>
<p>Other user-friendly features of the puzzles consist of clear color contrasts, easy navigation, big font size and support for older browsers such as Internet Explorer 11.</p>

Clear colors & compact interface. Very responsive for mobile as well!

User-friendly Puzzles

<p>You are proud of your brand and styling and would like your puzzles to integrate as seamless as possible into your own environment. To support this, the puzzles have all kinds of custom styling options which allow you to choose a combination that fits your needs best.</p>
<p>Especially the Supporter & Ambassador yearly subscription who have commercial stakes, might want to make use of these premium options to accompany their communication and marketing goals.</p>
<h2>No domain reference</h2>
<p>Besides the styling, the puzzles do not have any direct visible reference to Puzzel.org, except for the source code which needs to load the puzzle into your own domain. So completely white label for a low price!</p>
<h2>Extra custom styling</h2>
<p>If you would like extra custom styling for your account, you can always contact me to fit in your needs. For the commercial yearly account, I will add some simple changes for free and if there are more custom demands, we can always make a deal for extra work at 50 dollars per hour. Let me know if you miss anything: <a href="mailto:daan@puzzel.org">daan@puzzel.org</a></p>

No logo, no direct Puzzel.org recognition. Just a clean puzzle in your styling!

White Label Puzzles

<p class="highlight-text">
From scavenger hunts to online competitions to a nice bonus for the students, your own custom success message after solving a puzzle offers a range of possibilities!
</p>
<h2>Add your own custom message</h2>
<p>The puzzles within Puzzel.org all have the option to add a success-message once the puzzle has been solved. To customize this, you as the puzzle owner have the following types of input:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Title</li>
<li>Description</li>
<li>Image</li>
<li>Link</li>
<li>Confetti! :)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Puzzle scavenger hunt</h2>
<p>
A very nice way to use this, is to unlock a secret code/link once the puzzle has been solved. In that way, puzzle players can be sent from link to link of can unlock a code which can be used elsewhere, like a physical lock, a password, you name it!
</p>
<h2>Subject introduction</h2>
<p>
Via image and text you have the opportunity to introduce a new subject once the puzzle has been solved. The puzzle itself can used to ask a number of basic questions about the subject and then follow through with the introduction and a link to read more about it.
</p>
<h2>Also interesting</h2>
<p>
This type of functionality is comparable to/an extension of the crossword puzzle feature: '<a href="/en/features/create-crossword/with-solution">crossword puzzle with solution</a>'.
</p>

Surprise your players with a custom message when the puzzle is done! Allows a link and a image as well!

Puzzles with Custom Completion Message

<p class="highlight-text">
Creating a word search with the traditional solution at the end is very tricky when you don't have a database of words to fill the word search with. But luckily, I have built a nice alternative!</p>
<h2>Word search with own solution</h2>
<p>
As a puzzle maker, you would like to the puzzle player to discover a secret code, message or something else, so that the player can then continue to the next puzzle challenge
</p>
<p>
Because creating a word search with a hidden word, based on your own input, is technically almost impossible / very impractical, I have created a premium feature for the interested puzzle lovers where you can surprise the puzzle player with a custom made message as soon as the word search is solved!</p>
<h2>Custom made message</h2>
<p>This part is directly related to the page about '<a href="/en/features/general/with-custom-success-message">your own custom success message</a>'.</p>
<p>To elevate your word search to the next puzzle level, the scavenger hunt leven, you can hint the user to the next step with the following means: 
<ul>
<li>the next puzzle link</li>
<li>a clarifying image</li>
<li>a hint/question in a paragraph of text</li>
</ul>
<p class="highlight-text">And it has confetti as an option as well! :)</p>
<h3>Extra technical description: why no solution in the word search itself</h3>
<p>
When you would like to make a word search with solution, then there are two challenges. First, there is limited set of words. Let's say that you filled in 16 words. As soon as all of the words are placed within the grid, then a certain number of cells are left. Since you cannot control how well words overlap (there are only 16 words), and more importantly, <strong>you do not have control over the length of the answer</strong> (as the tool).
</p>
<p>
But, you might think, the puzzle magazines can do it as well! :) That's right, but they have a vast database of words and can play with the combination of words and a fitting answer, which exactly matches the characters that are remaining.
</p>
<p>
For now, there will be no word searches with solution (in the traditional way) at Puzzel.org. I will definitely look into the algorithm and the possibilities to improve the current version, by leaving words out or by hinting to the user that the answer should be longer/shorter.
</p>


Creating a word search with solution is very popular, but also challenging..

Word Search with Hidden Solution

<p>When I was thinking about creating a quartets game builder that could be used within the classroom, I had the idea for an online version.</p>

<p class="highlight-text">What if you could ask for a specific quartets-card and the one being asked, received the question as a real question instead of the card.</p>

<p><strong>For example:</strong> I ask for the card 'Banana' of the set 'Fruit'. As a learning question/description I add 'Crooked and yellow'.</p>

<img src="/static/features/quartets-learning-question-example.png" />

<p>Because you can influence in the online interface which part of the card is being shown (answer or learning question), you can give the game a special educational touch :).</p>

<p class="highlight-text">
And students that make the wrong choice at first (Yes while the answer is No, or the other way around), receive feedback that they didn't see it correctly and they will still have to give the correct answer.</p>

<p>So, no cheating allowed, but nice learning moments! :)</p>
<img src="/static/features/quartets-field.png" />
<h2>Try it out</h2>
<p>You can now simply start by building a quartets-game and sharing the link to it via the button 'share this puzzle'.</p>
<p>
<a href="/en/quartets/create">Create a quartets game!</a>
</p>

Add an extra educational touch to your quartets game! 

Quartets with Learning Question

<p class="highlight-text">
The ideale alternative to crossword puzzles with textual descriptions! Give students picture clues for the answer and create compelling, diverse educational material :)</p>
<h2>Example</h2>
<p>To illustrate, I have created a small example puzzle with images. See the screenshot and the link below for the online playable version.
<a class="image-link" style="display: block" href="https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/play?p=-LEs-xMrcLlIshD85ew6"><img src="/static/crossword-puzzle-with-pictures.png" /></a>
<a href="https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/play?p=-LEs-xMrcLlIshD85ew6">Example: Crossword puzzle with images</a>
</p>
<h2>Placement of the images</h2>
<p>The placement of the images is done with a maximum width/height so that your crossword puzzle with pictures stays viewable and clear. The images will always keep their aspect ratio so that they are not distorted and ugly.</p>
<h2>Create your own crossword puzzle with pictures</h2>
<p>This is very simple! Go to <a href="https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/create">this page</a> with your premium account and select 'Image' instead of 'Normal' on the Premium-tab and you can immediately start uploading your images as descriptions.</p>
<p>Have lots of fun and please let me know if you walk into any problems or other cool suggestions!</p>

Crossword puzzles with images made easy! Great for kids!

Crossword puzzles with Pictures

<p>Whenever you are building a crossword puzzle, it is of course extra nice if there is a hidden treasure at the end. A puzzle within a puzzle. A (acrostic) crossword puzzle with a central word, solution or prize question. And this is available at Puzzel.org!</p>
<p>I have built the option to add a central solution / word to your question set. Based on the letters in the questions, the <a href="/en/features/create-crossword/online-generator">crossword puzzle maker</a>&nbsp;tries its best to fill&nbsp;in matching squares within the crossword puzzle to unlock parts of the final solution.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Whenever you unlock a 'contest square' (marked purple), then the character will automatically appear in the right spot within the answer, below the crossword puzzle. With the print version there is only the purple squares, without the automatic filling, so there is an extra puzzle element to constructing the right answer :).&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Example&nbsp;</h2>
<p>I like to build acrostic crossword puzzles myself and I like the prize question feature a lot! That's why I have created an <a href="https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/play?p=-L1v2n-yhlUB-bGDzGol">example puzzle</a>, so that you have a visual image of what the end result might look like. The image below is linked to the interactive version of the crossword puzzle.</p>
<p><a href="https://puzzel.org/en/crossword/play?p=-L1v2n-yhlUB-bGDzGol"><img src="/static/kruiswoordraadsel-met-centraal-woord.jpg" alt="crossword puzzle with solution" /></a></p>
<h2>Use all of the characters of your central word! :)</h2>
<p>Often, I see people enthusiastically adding amazing amounts of characters to their end solution, while their crossword puzzle is pretty small. This is a pity, because the algorithm won't be able to fill all of the answer squares in the end!&nbsp;</p>
<p>Currently there is a new feature included to help with this. It will check if the letters in your central word, match characters within the answers to your questions. If the solution misses a number of characters, it will block the submitting of the puzzle until you add more questions or add a different solution.</p>

Build a climax to your acrostic puzzle. Or offer a prize question by sending in the hidden solution!

Crossword Puzzle with Hidden Solution

<p class="highlight-text">
This puzzle feature makes it possible to see user statistics per question and aggregated statistics for different types of puzzles!
</p>
<p>
Nothing is less fun then to manually check exams and assignments. To make this process more fun and automated, I have developed the register-functionality with statistics. 
</p>
<h2>Registration</h2>
<img src="/static/features/registration-puzzle-example.png" />
<p>
Students register themselves for the puzzle and therefore have permanent access to their own answers. From a different comuter, at a different time, they can still log in to their account and see/complete their puzzle. Everything is directly connected to the backend of Puzzel.org, and thus with your account as a teacher.
</p>
<h2>Statistics</h2>
<em>{ Example questions are in Dutch }</em>
<p>
As the owner of the puzzle, you can easily follow the statistics in the backend. In real-time! The stats will be updated automatically as soon as a student fills in a new correct answer.
</p>
<p>
There are aggregated results for the:
<ul>
<li>Total users</li>
<li>Average spent time</li>
<li>Correct answers</li>
<li>Correctly answered questions</li>
</ul>
</p>
<img src="/static/features/stats-example.png" />
<h2>Stats per user</h2>
<p>
To complement the aggregated results, I have added individual statistics to the live statistics feed as well.
</p>
<p class="highlight-text">
This makes it possible to use the puzzle as an exam/checkable assignment, since you as the teacher have direct access to the results of the individual! :)
</p>
<img src="/static/features/stats-player-example.png" />

Register your digital puzzle players and keep track of their stats, real-time!

Puzzles with Stats and Registration

<p class="highlight">In this article I will explain what the word search puzzle generator options are and how you can use it for your own goals. Not looking for the word search? Check out our <a href="/en/features/create-crossword/online-generator">online crossword puzzle generator.</a></p>
<h2>The generator</h2>
<p>To make the creation of a new word (search) puzzle as friendly as possible, I have added a real-time view which updates every time you add a new word for your puzzle.</p>
<p>You can easily tweak and change your puzzle directly if it doesn't meet your requirements / expectations yet.</p>
<h2>The algorithm</h2>
<p>The algorithm looks through your word list and the allowed list of given directions (north/east/southwest/etc..). It will then randomly insert a word into the size of the grid and move to the next word until either all words have been placed, or a new spot for a word could not be found.</p>
<p>Missing words from the grid are highlighted in red and can be added by increasing the size of the word search grid via the Settings-tab.</p>
<h2>Generate a puzzle with your own answers</h2>
<p>The cool thing about generating a puzzle is when you can customize it with your own questions and answers. And that is exactly what Puzzel.org offers!</p>
<p>And not only that, the word search puzzle has different types that allow you to create different types of 'hints' or questions to find the words in the puzzle. The currently supported types/hints are:</p><ul>
<li>Words</li>
<li>Questions</li>
<li>Images</li>
</ul>
<h2>Create your own</h2>
<p>To start with your own first word search puzzle, you can are off to the races within a few seconds! Start with your first word <a href="/en/wordseeker/create">here</a> and see your puzzle unfold!</p>

Word puzzle generator for creating nice looking word searches

Word Puzzle Generator

<p class='highlight-text'>For the premium members who would like to integrate their puzzles with more ease into their Wordpress website, this is now possible!</p>
<p>
The plugin is a new experiment of mine and is still in beta-mode. Therefore, it not yet available in the official Wordpress plugin overview.
</p>
<h2>Install the Puzzel.org Wordpress plugin</h2>
<p>
To install the plugin, please follow the following steps:
<ol>
<li><a href='/static/puzzel-org.zip'>Download the plugin ZIP-file</a></li>
<li>Login to Wordpress and go to Plugins > Add new</li>
<li>Click on 'Upload plugin' at the top and select the downloaded the puzzel-org.zip file</li>
<li>Click 'Install now'</li>
<li>Click 'Activate plugin' once the installation has succesfully been completed</li>
</ol>
</p>
<p class="highlight"><strong>Note:</strong> to use the current version of the plugin, you should have the classic editor enabled. The new Gutenberg editor is not yet supported.</p>
<h2>Loading puzzles into Wordpress</h2>
<p>
The next step is to authenticate with Puzzel.org and load your puzzles into Wordpress.</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the new Puzzel.org settings menu in the sidebar</li>
<li>Fill in your Puzzel.org credentials (email/password) and click 'Authenticate with Puzzel.org'</li>
<li>Once this is succesful, click on the 'Retrieve all puzzles' button</li>
<li>Watch your beautiful list of puzzles get loaded :)</li>
<li>Click 'Save Puzzles' at the bottom to save the puzzles into Wordpress</li>
</ol>
<h2>Embedding puzzles into Wordpress Posts/Pages</h2>
<p>
Once all of the puzzles are loaded into Wordpress, it is time to use them within your posts and pages! To make this as easy and visual as possible, I have created an extension for the Wordpress editor. This can be used in the following manner:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open up a (new) page/post within Wordpress</li>
<li>Click on a empty spot within the editor where you would like to have a puzzle</li>
<li>Click the new available and colorful black/yellow icon [P]</li>
<li>Fill in the settings (width/height/language) or leave them as defaults if you currenly don't know</li>
<li>Click on the puzzle that you would like to embed within your post/page</li>
<li>And there it is! Visually loaded into your page, waiting to be saved :)</li>
<li>After you save the post/page, check out the published post/page on the website and see if you solve your own puzzle. :)</li>
</ol>
<h2>Only for premium users</h2>
<p>
Since the embedded puzzles are only available for premium users, the Wordpress plugin is only useful for premium users as well. If you are a new user and want crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, memory or quartets embedded right into your website, please upgrade first and then have fun with the plugin :).
</p>

Add puzzles to your Wordpress website with this easy-to-use new Wordpress plugin

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