crosshare
Crosshare is a free and ad-free community for crossword constructors and solvers (by crosshare-org)
exet
Web app for crossword construction: designing a grid, filling the grid, creating straight or cryptic clues, and downloading as Exolve or .puz. All data is saved locally, no crosswords are sent to any server. (by viresh-ratnakar)
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| crosshare | exet | |
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| 33 | 17 | |
| 104 | 39 | |
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| 9.5 | 6.6 | |
| 4 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| TypeScript | JavaScript | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
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crosshare
Posts with mentions or reviews of crosshare.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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Want to create my own crossword - cryptic or otherwise. Any resources/websites?
https://crosshare.org/ is worth a look. Lets you build a grid and then 'autofills' suggested words around the words you enter. (And then you can overwrite the suggestions, and it gives more).
- A place for sharing constructed puzzles?
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Trying to Create a Mini Puzzle Everyday
Hi all, I've gotten pretty into constructing over the past 6 months (and more seriously over the past 2). My goal is to get one lightly-themed mini up on Crosshare everyday. There's a few full-size and midi puzzles up as well. Would love any and all feedback (especially from those that enjoy bite-sized puzzles)!
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Ressource for sharing crossword
If you're looking to upload your crosswords somewhere for other people to solve them, the go-to site for that seems to be Crosshare.
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Is there any software that can generate freeform barred grid crosswords from a dictionary?
Crosshare makes barred grids and has a built in dictionary - and its free https://crosshare.org/
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Is there a software to solve crosswords with a word list and grid?
https://crosshare.org is a free online tool that's great for making and sharing puzzles. Not sure how close it'll take you.
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Free Talk Friday
Someone linked this crossword site awhile ago - https://crosshare.org/ They're mostly in the American style that I'm not as into but they're free so who cares.
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Melee Doubles - a ssbm crossword
Check out https://crosshare.org/ it has a pretty good interface for making crossword puzzles.
- Online Crossword Creator
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How can I solve the crossword I created digitally?
You can export it and upload it online to a site like https://crosshare.org/ or https://downforacross.com/ to give people a link to play it.
exet
Posts with mentions or reviews of exet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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Want to create my own crossword - cryptic or otherwise. Any resources/websites?
I love Exetby u/wavefn for cryptics
- Recommend Crossword Software?
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Software that supports foreign characters (and swedish style crosswords)
Does not support Å, Ä, Ö or custom word lists https://crossshare.org/construct https://viresh-ratnakar.github.io/exet.html https://www.crossworthy.net/construct/scratch
- POTD: Straightforward 11x11 with a few cheeky surprises
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A tool for making crosswords
Just FYI, Exet does a good job with this, and has lots of other functions useful for filling in the grid.
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Just found the article "Pinpointing Letters" in Word Ways, which has cryptic-style phrases for all letters (e.g. 'can opener' for C). Might be useful for clue writers.
Exet has a boatload of resources including some great lists of indicators.
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Any good resources to make a cryptic crossword ?
check out qxw and exet for two great freely-available tools.
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The next AOTW Grid…
None of it is computer “generated” per se, but I do use software – mostly Exet now – to assist in selecting/creating the grid and trying to ensure each entry has at least two options. I also keep track of all the previous grids’ letter combinations, to try avoiding repeats. That last part has become increasingly difficult, though, so I will probably have to limit how far I track back in future.
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Looking for a scored wordlist that uses British spellings and references
I've used this to score the UKACD list, for use in Exet.
- Help needed.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing crosshare and exet you can also consider the following projects:
metastream - Watch streaming media with friends.
Phil - A fork of Phil, a crossword maker.
cloudbeaver - Cloud Database Manager
Phil - A crossword maker.
wordler - find solution to wordle every day and create an issue for each day
Crossword-Layout-Generator - Crossword Layout Generator - Open Source
crossword - Scraping personal NYT crossword stats
crossword - Crossword generator engine in Python
xword-dl - ⬛⬜⬛ Command line tool to scrape crosswords from online solvers and save them as .puz files ⬛⬜⬛
lufz
SimplyCode - Code writing starts starts now! (very light cross-platform editor)