Whirlwind WordSearch Lite 4+

Multi-lingual Word Puzzles

Eduard Schwan

    • Free

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Description

Whirlwind WordSearch Lite is a word search puzzle maker that creates and prints uniquely engaging word search puzzles from your own lists of words. It is not just a pretty puzzle-maker though, underneath is a powerful puzzle-generating engine. It offers many different shapes, sizes, fonts, languages, and difficulty levels. It quietly removes any randomly created "naughty words". It lets you easily save royalty-free puzzles for publishing in your books, blogs or newsletters. All of this for one price... no monthly fees, no sudden updating costs. Ever.

This is the free version of Whirlwind WordSearch, which contains many of the ready-to-use features of the Full and Pro versions.
Here's a list of features that make Whirlwind WordSearch an outstanding puzzle-generator.

• Easily customize your puzzles, choosing different colors, fonts, and sizes for the puzzle letters and titles. Choose to draw cell grid lines or not, or just draw an outline around the puzzle.
• Choose from many built-in puzzle shapes: Square, Circle, UL-Wedge, LR-Wedge, Round Peg-Square Hole, Mushroom. The Full and Pro versions have many more.
• Create puzzles ranging in size from 9x9 to 18x18. Full version goes from 5x5 to 50x50, Pro goes up to 80x80.
• Create word puzzles with words in English, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese-Hiragana, Japanese-Katakana, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit-Latin, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh.
• Create number puzzles too, using Arabic numbers or Chinese/Japanese numbers.
• All created puzzles are yours! Publish and make money with them… there are no copyright restrictions or restrictive “commercial use” clauses!
• Work without a net... you never need an internet connection to create, save, and print your puzzles.
* Your work is safely yours. Your puzzles stay on your computer. Whirlwind WordSearch never requires you to create an account and never stores any of your information in the cloud.
• Bulk-Export up to 100 different puzzles at a time, using the Bulk-Builder in the Pro version.
* Change the Difficulty Mode" simply by moving a slider from "easy" puzzles to "hard" puzzles, without worrying about all the details of how it works. The Full version allows more difficulty controls.
• Export high-quality puzzles and answer keys to a number of different file formats, ready for web, newsletters, worksheets, books, or other publications. Supports PNG. The Full version also supports PDF, JPEG, SVG, and ipuz file formats.
• Use compound-words with spaces, dashes or apostrophes (O'Hara), or use entire phrases (May The Force Be With You).
• Pour lots of words into your word list and make them "optional." Whirlwind WordSearch will automatically figure out how to make a puzzle from as many words as it can and will tell you which ones it left out.
• It automatically finds and removes any randomly-generated "naughty" words in any of your chosen languages.
• Supports Dark Mode and Full-Screen mode.
• Comprehensive built-in User Guide contains 80+ pages of tutorials and tips and describes every option, getting you up-to-speed right away. Advanced features are explained, helping you create high-quality and uniquely personalized puzzles.

What’s New

Version 5.0.0

• Now allows fine-tuning the vertical letter adjustment inside puzzle grid.
• The User Interface has been heavily re-arranged to be better organized, with fewer things on each tabbed pane, but more and deeper tabs.
• Renamed the "Alphabet" tab to "Alphabets/Numbers" to make it easier to find where to set up a NUMBERS word-search puzzle (Thanks Eliza!)
• Added Japanese/Chinese numbers to list of "alphabet" styles.
• Added the subtitle and word list display to the Preview area.
• All Font-chooser popup-menus now display the list of fonts *in* the font itself for WYSIWYG choosing.
• The "Create" button has been renamed "Build", and an ACTION menu has been added to hold the main Build/Stop/Bulk-Build/Shape-Designer actions.
• Word directions are now more evenly distributed, so if you have 10 words, and 2 allowed directions, it will try very hard to add 5 words in EACH of those 2 directions. You can see the distribution by looking at the Stats table to see how many words were laid down in each direction. (Thanks Jen!)
• Building "tight" puzzles (small puzzles with very few remaining empty spaces) will now succeed more often, where they would always fail before.
• Added "Filename Layout" popup menu to the EXPORT window, allowing you to re-arrange the order of the exported filename components.
• Added the "Reset Settings to Defaults" menu function to the software.

Bugs Fixed:
• The tabs in the App Settings dialog that are only supported in the Full version are now removed in the Lite version, leaving only the "Appearance" tab.
• Grid line size and Answer Highlight loop drawing is changed slightly, now adjusts RELATIVE to puzzle size (making it export-resolution-independent.)
• FINALLY found and fixed Edit:Undo/Redo menu functions for text fields, so you can properly undo/redo typing in your word lists!
• Now more often succeeds building smaller tight puzzles with almost no free space, by trying harder (taking longer) if it needs to.
• Turning ON or OFF the "show the word list" checkboxes on the Printing Puzzle or Answer pages now correctly turns them on/off.
• Word List text now uses the Puzzle Letter font color, not the Title Text font color! It has been (incorrect) that way for years!
• Turning OFF "Printing:Print Word List on Answer Page" also hides it from Answer Preview window. (Thanks JamesR)
• When a large number of words are optional and omitted from the word list, the # of columns of words under the puzzle is now re-calculated to correctly balance (and re-center) the word list.

App Privacy

The developer, Eduard Schwan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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