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Chainmesh

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ChainMesh is one of many varieties of word puzzles available today. While very simple in nature, its not easy to solve. This program prepares a ChaimMesh puzzle that you can print. Puzzle and the solution are printed on a single page. The puzzle is composed of 35 interlocking 7-letter words. First or last letter of each word must form the first or last letter of another word. Also the first and the last letter of each word must be placed in 16 highlighted squares.


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Diamonds

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Diamonds is one of many varieties of word puzzles available today. While very simple in nature, its not easy to solve. This program prepares a Diamonds word puzzle. You can print the puzzle and the solution on a page. The puzzle is composed of 20 interlocking 5-letter words. Twenty words are placed in 65 locations. Last letter of each word must form the first letter of another word. Also the first and the last letter of each word must be placed in 9 diamond locations.


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f8Puzzle

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This program will create an 8-shaped word puzzle for you to print and solve at your leisure. There are 23 interlocking words in 23 squares in the puzzle, each 8-letter long. A word must be placed clock-wise around each square with same overlapping letters with other squares.


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Hexafit

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HexaFit is one of many varieties of word puzzles available today. While very simple in nature, its not easy to solve. This program prepares a Hexafit word puzzle. You can print the puzzle and the solution on a page. The puzzle is composed of 19 interlocking hexagons. Three sides of outer periphery hexagons, and all six of internal hexagons are interlocked. Each of 19 hexagons, or 19 cells is divided into 6 parts. The puzzle comes with a set of 19 6-leeter words. Purpose of the puzzle is to place these 6-letter words in 19 cells. Letters at the boundaries in interlocking cells must be same. Letters in a word must be placed clock-wise.


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p3x20

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This program will generate a 20 word puzzle for you to solve at your leisure.

Main features of this game are:

  1. All words are 3-letter long
  2. Four letters are provided as hint
  3. Hint letters can be random, all same, or user defined
  4. Overlapping letters in words must be same
  5. A word cannot be made twice
  6. You can use three standard or your own dictionary
  7. User dictionaries must be sorted text files, one word in each line

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p5x36

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This program will generate a 36 word puzzle for you to solve at your leisure.

Main features of this game are:

  1. All words are 5-letter long
  2. Six letters are provided as hint
  3. letters can be random, all same, or user defined
  4. Overlapping letters in words must be same
  5. A word cannot be made twice
  6. You can use three standard or your own dictionary
  7. User dictionaries must be sorted text files, one word in each line

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sWords

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sWords is one of many varieties of word puzzles available today. While very simple in nature, its not easy to solve. This program prepares a sWords puzzle. You can print the puzzle and the solution on a page. Purpose of this puzzle is to find and place 11 words on a s-shaped grid. Each word around a cell is of 6-letters, 2 of these letters overlap with the adjacent cell. Letters are placed clockwise.


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