crossword

Sample Puzzle Output I decided that I should let anyone use the crossword puzzle generator program that I wrote. The Windows executable file can be downloaded from my site for your own personal use. Get it here. The Input Dialog Box Do people still call the popup boxes…

I recently got back to improving the crossword puzzle generator. The previous algorithm would only allow for clumps of four letters by pre-searching the word list and forming four word clumps. When the placement algorithm was running, it would try to place those four word clumps onto the…

I got the puzzle generator working well enough to generate the puzzle I needed. I’m done with this project. It was interesting when I decided to add clumped words to the algorithm. Four words can all come together  in a four-letter clump. It’s a situation that the normal…

Crossword puzzles are supposed to be designed with a lot of white squares in clumps and with some sort of symmetry. There are different style traditions in the U.S., the U.K, and Japan. Sweden has a very strange looking puzzle style that is a bit different but having…

I added code to save my crossword puzzle and solution to two bitmap files. It is interesting how many people write code to do things of this sort that don’t write it correctly. Puzzle Bitmap void CChildView::SaveImageToFile( const char *pFilename, bool bSolution ) { CSize GridSize = GetGridCellSize();…