Five steps. About five minutes. No experience needed.
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Open the editor and follow along — you can do this in parallel.
Open the editor and look at the Grid tab on the left. Click a preset like 9×9 for your first puzzle.
Click a cell to select it, then press Space to make it black. Use the floating toolbar's Black Cell tool to click-and-drag black squares quickly.
Switch to the Fill tab, leave the scope on "All", and click "Fill Blanks". The engine searches a 200,000-word list and fills every empty slot in seconds.
The Clues panel is on the right. Click any clue textarea and type. Tab moves to the next clue.
Press Ctrl+S (⌘S on Mac) to save. Click Export for PDF, .puz, or a self-contained HTML solver.
Which format should you use? .puz, PDF, HTML — learn the differences.
Work faster with the full keyboard shortcut reference.
Common questions about building, exporting, and publishing.
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