Puzzle-Generator
Crossword & Word Search Maker
Only for Mac
$17.99
Mac
New: picture crosswords, matchstick puzzles and mazes! Create crosswords, Sudoku, word searches & more in minutes – perfect for school, events and creative projects.
Puzzle-Generator – Create Crossword Puzzles, Word Search Puzzles, Geometry Puzzles & More
Create professional puzzles easily – ideal for school, teaching, children’s birthday parties, events, worksheets, learning material, or creative projects.
With Puzzle-Generator, you can design individual brain teasers and word puzzles quickly, flexibly, and intuitively. Create your own puzzles, customize their appearance, print them, export them, and continue editing your projects later.
Generate puzzles easily
- Create custom crossword puzzles, classic or Swedish-style
- Create American-style crosswords with Across and Down clue lists
- Create letter-corners crosswords with one big given letter in each corner
- Create picture crosswords: pictures instead of clues, optionally with arrows to the first letter
- Create number and arithmetic crosswords: numbers instead of letters or calculations instead of clues
- Create personal word search puzzles with your own word lists
- Create individual alphametics and cryptograms – also as an alphametic grid
- Create geometry puzzles with cube and triangular pyramid figures
- Use 3D and 2D figures for geometry-based puzzle tasks
- Create Sudoku puzzles: classic 4x4, 6x6 and 9x9 as well as hexadecimal 16x16 – also as X-Sudoku with diagonals
- Ten interlocking and three-dimensional Sudoku variants: twin, trio, samurai, zigzag, ring and star Sudoku as well as cube Sudokus
- Create counting puzzles: how many triangles, squares, rectangles, circles or cubes does the figure contain?
- Create arithmetic puzzles: the calculation grid, find the start number and the way through a calculation matrix – plus the calculation snake
- Create classic jigsaw puzzles from your own photos: children's, classic and elegant photo puzzle
- Create matchstick puzzles: fix wrong equations by moving matchsticks or change figures made of matchsticks
- Create mazes: classic mazes in any shape, circular mazes or lines mazes
- Use your own terms, topics, questions, and solutions
- Personalize puzzles for school, events, gifts, or training material
More creative design options
- Color picker with eye dropper support
- Color backgrounds and pattern images
- Additional Puzzle-Generator images for more visual variety
- Flexible layout and design customization
- Design single boxes individually: own color, font and border
- Suitable for clean worksheets, playful puzzles, and professional print layouts
Practical & professional
- Save projects and continue editing later
- Clean printing and export options
- Improved handling of images, brushes, and saved puzzle previews
- Optimized project files: only actually used image data is saved
- Better support for different system languages
- Improved font handling
- Improved scrolling and layout behavior in property windows
- Cancelable progress dialogs for longer operations
Improved crossword and word puzzle workflow
- Better crossword generation for puzzles with only a few words
- Crossword option to control how many random words are used at the start
- Improved display of crossword clue boxes, even when space is limited
- Improved editing comfort with layout enhancements such as adjustable areas on the word search generation page
Perfect for
Teachers, schools, parents, trainers, clubs, event planners, marketing campaigns, puzzle fans, or anyone who wants to create personal and professional puzzles.
Create your own crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, geometry puzzles, alphametics, cryptograms, and brain teasers – creative, individual, and professional.
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Even more puzzle fun: two new puzzle groups and six new puzzle types.
- New puzzle group: matchstick puzzles – wrong equations or figures made of matchsticks, solved by moving, removing or adding matchsticks
- New puzzle group: mazes – classic mazes in any shape, circular mazes and lines mazes, also playable in the web app
- New puzzle type: picture crosswords – pictures instead of clues, optionally with arrows to the first letter
- New puzzle types: number crosswords and arithmetic crosswords
- New variants: calculation snake, X-Sudoku and alphametic grid
- Design single boxes of crosswords and word searches individually
- Word searches with a secret message formed by the leftover letters
- Mandatory words and block lists for crosswords, plus a charset filter for 51 languages
- Keyboard shortcuts, pasting from spreadsheets and an improved word list import
- New fonts, background images and templates, plus many improvements and bug fixes
The developer, anbista GmbH, 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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Information
- Seller
- anbista GmbH
- Size
- 269.6 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 49 more
- English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 anbista GmbH

