Twenty Automatically Generated Crossword Puzzles

(with human-generated clues)

By Yonah Biers-Ariel, Matt Hohertz, Jingze Li, and Lauren Squillace

To generate your own puzzles, use this Maple Package. Be sure to also download the corpuses that it uses to draw words from: EV3, EV4, EV5, EV6, EV7, EV8. For an explanation of the algorithms in this package read our Write-up.

To generate partial puzzles with black squares, use this Maple Package. Note: the main file (that you should run in Maple) is called crosswd.txt.new. The other files should be saved in a folder called cw so that the main file can read them. For an explanation of the algorithms in this package read our Write-up.

To solve 3x3 puzzles choose one of these:

Puzzle 1

Puzzle 2

Puzzle 3

Puzzle 4

Puzzle 5

Puzzle 6

To solve 3x4 puzzles choose one of these:

Puzzle 7

Puzzle 8

Puzzle 9

Puzzle 10

To solve 4x4 puzzles choose one of these:

Puzzle 11

Puzzle 12

Puzzle 13

Puzzle 14

To solve 4x5 puzzles choose one of these:

Puzzle 15

Puzzle 16

To solve 5x5 puzzles choose one of these:

Puzzle 17

Puzzle 18

Puzzle 19

Puzzle 20