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| FAQ's
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| What is Crossword Weaver? | ||||||||||
| Does it use only my words? | ||||||||||
| How challenging are the puzzles to solve? | ||||||||||
| How many words can I expect to get in a puzzle? | ||||||||||
| Do I have to write my own clues? | ||||||||||
| Do I have to draw my own patterns? | ||||||||||
| Can I export the puzzles I make to other programs? | ||||||||||
| What system does it run on? | ||||||||||
| Can I put medical terms in my crossword puzzles? | ||||||||||
| Does Crossword Weaver support foreign words? | ||||||||||
| How long can the clues be? | ||||||||||
| How long does it take to construct a puzzle? | ||||||||||
| Why are there red and blue words in my puzzle? | ||||||||||
| I'm having a hard time downloading. What do I do? | ||||||||||
| Do I need to be on-line for Crossword Weaver to work? | ||||||||||
Crossword Weaver is fully automated
crossword puzzle construction software. It is
easy to use. It takes takes your words and makes
crossword puzzles out of them. It makes two
styles of Crossword puzzles: the free-form
puzzles that are popular with educators, and the
symmetrical style you see in newspapers. The hard
work of making the puzzle is completely handled
by the computer.  |
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| If you
want a newspaper-style puzzle, it will mix some
of your words with its high quality crossword
puzzle database to create your puzzle. |
If you
want a free-form puzzle, it will use only your
words. |
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| For
newspaper puzzles: even those people that find
normal newspaper crossword puzzles too difficult
will love the puzzles you make with Crossword
Weaver. |
The
difficulty of the free-form puzzles depends
solely on which words you use and how you clue
them. |
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| The
English language does put limitations on the
number of theme words that can be placed in a
puzzle. The more words you put in a theme word
list and the bigger your puzzle is the more of
your words will fit in your puzzles. For a 15x15
crossword puzzle you can expect to get around 30
theme words in if you have about 400 words in
your theme word list, or it can place 7-9 theme
words from a word list of 20 words, assuming you
use fairly short words. |
For Free-form:
as many as you want. Realistic answer: I had a
theme word list of 450 words and I set the
pattern size at 51x51 (the maximum). It got over
200 words into my puzzle. Of course it spanned
three pages! A more normal puzzle, (around 23x23
for the free form style) would have about 30
words, depending on your word length. |
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| For
newspaper puzzles, a clue will be assigned for
almost every word in your puzzle. You can keep
the clues you like, select among alternates
provided by the software or write your own. |
For free-form
puzzles, some of your words may have clues if
your words are in the program's dictionary, but
more likely you will need to write your own clues. |
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| No. A
pattern that is appropriate for your words will
be chosen for you. But you can draw your own
pattern if you wish. There are many tools to aid
you in puzzle design if you really want to draw
your own. |
No. Free-form
puzzles don't have patterns. |
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| Yes you can. You can export to almost
any Windows program, including Microsoft®
Publisher and all Windows® versions
of WordPerfect®. It uses "metafiles"
which are resizable and work well with Windows
programs. |
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| Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98 and
Windows NT. It does not run on a Mac, but does
run on SoftWindows. If you have a Mac, click here to learn more. |
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| Yes. You can use any words you want
as long as they use the Roman alphabet (the
normal English alphabet) and have no symbols or
numbers. We have also been asked about biblical
words and computer science terms. These also work
well. |
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| Your
theme words can be in any language you want as
long as it uses the Roman alphabet. The program
only has an English dictionary, and so the filler
words will be in English. You can write your
clues in any language you wish. |
Yes as
long as you use the Roman alphabet. You can make
a theme word list of foreign words, and it will
construct a puzzle for you using only those words.
You can also write your clues in any language you
want. |
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| 255 characters, which means basically
as long as you want. To give you an idea of how
long that is, this sentence that you are reading
right now only contains 116 characters. |
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| It is very fast. It is optimized for
creating puzzles very quickly. Most puzzles are
done in a few seconds. |
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| Those are your theme words. The theme
words that read across are red and the theme
words that read down are blue. |
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| E-mail
us your name and address and we will mail you a
demo diskette. You can also try downloading from
the other site (there are two choices, Texas and
Utah) or you can try at a less busy time. |
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| No. Crossword Weaver runs solely on
your computer and has nothing to do with
the Internet. |
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Copyright © 1999 [Variety Games, Inc.]. All rights reserved. |
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