cryptic (13 products)

Coded X-Word 1.0 (Shareware, $10)

This game is an interesting variation of traditional cross words. In this exiting word game, a letter is represented by a number. Cross word grid is filled with such coded numbers. Three of those numbers are decoded and provided to help you decrypt the rest. A number always represent a single letter in a game. Position of numbers to be used to find all letters and complete the cross word.

Crossword Express 6.5 (Shareware, $35.00)

Make your own crosswords and other word puzzles using your own words and clues. Print your puzzles in a wide range of formats including Standard, Clue-In-Puzzle, Fill-In, Tangled, Fractured, CodeWord and French style, or export them to the Clipboard and then paste into your Desk Top Publishing application. Other features include (1) Make standard puzzles just like you see in your morning paper, free-form puzzles from your word list having as few as ten words, or themed puzzles on any topic you care to choose. (2) Make puzzles using fonts other than the normal Roman font. Greek and Cyrillic puzzles are no problem. If you choose to make Hebrew or Arabic puzzles, you will be able to do your dictionary editing in the required right-to-left mode, and puzzles will also be printed in the correct mode for these languages. (3) A library of seven free Java Applets is available for interactive publication of your puzzles on the web. (4) Make WordSearch puzzles including an optional secret message which occupies the spac

Crossword Wordplay Wizard 1.1 (Demo, $29)

Shows wordplay types you can use to clue an answer in a cryptic crossword: anagrams; reversal; charades; container and contents; head, middle, tail and ends deletion; alternation; substitution. Links to extensive lists of indicators with guidance on usage: abbreviation indicators, anagram indicators, charade indicators, container and contents indicators, reversal indicators. Saves time and improves cryptic clue quality by suggesting treatments you might not think of. Prints wordplay results. Copies wordplay results to the clipboard. Includes English language word list with over 250,000 entries. Merge and build in your own word lists.

Cryptic Puzzles 1.4 (Shareware, $10)

Combines a hangman-like game with a cryptogram-like challenge for new and exciting puzzles. Fun for all ages and skill levels.

ForeWord 2.02 (Freeware)

ForeWord - Solve those Scrabble and crossword puzzles. ForeWord is great for solving all those tricky word problems - anagrams, missing letters or just for checking your spelling. It uses the latest OSPD lexicon containing 169,334 words - and it's really fast ! Best of all it's free !

Letter Rack (Classic) 4.02 (Shareware, $19.95)

Letter Rack is a challenging Scrabble word game with many features. Try to score as many points as you can by forming interconnecting words on the board. You start with seven letters, and the tiles have differing score values. The board includes bonus squares

Letter Rack 3D 5.02 (Shareware, $28.98)

Letter Rack 3D - Now the world's most popular word game is available in breathtaking 3D realism that has to be seen to be believed. It really is 'too good for words !'. See it for yourself at our website : www.softspotsoftware.com/LetterRack3D

Scrabble Solution 2.02 (Shareware, $19.95)

Scrabble Solution can create and solve puzzles that are often included in newspapers and other publications. It's great as a companion for Scrabble games and can help to find that 'ideal' score. Puzzles may be printed for later enjoyment over a coffee and these puzzles may be included in non-profitable publications - contact SoftSpot Software for full rights to publish puzzles.

Sympathy Crossword Construction 2.4 (Demo, $149)

Sympathy helps you create professional quality crosswords for publication in print form or on the web. It has a wealth of construction and filling features to aid the compiler. Its flexibility in grid drawing and puzzle layout will appeal to crossword publishers. Sympathy supports US style fully checked, diagramless, blocked, Italian style and barred grid puzzles. Start the crossword based on a stock grid or create a bespoke grid. Fill the grid using any of four different techniques. Check the construction and fill quality using the statistics. Look up words in the integrated dictionary and thesaurus or on the web. Enter the clues and their explanations, using the Wordplay Wizard for help with cryptic clues. Print complete puzzles directly or export them in a variety of formats for publication. Create HTML for the crossword, with the grid in HTML or bitmap formats such as JPEG and PNG.

Sympathy Crossword Publisher 2.4 (Demo, $29.99)

Sympathy helps you prepare crosswords for publication in print form or on the web. Its highly flexible grid drawing and puzzle layout options allow you to create US style fully checked, diagramless, blocked, Italian style and barred grid puzzles. Start the crossword based on a stock grid or create a bespoke grid. Enter the answers and their clues. Print crosswords directly. Export crosswords for publication in print form. Export crosswords as HTML, with the grid in HTML or bitmap formats such as JPEG and PNG, for inclusion in a web site.

Target Words 2.02 (Shareware, $19.95)

Target Words creates and solves those 9 letter anagrams that are commonly found in various newspapers and involves finding words of 4 letters or more all using a common key letter. With Target Word, you can specify 1 to 4 key letters, making the solution significantly more challenging.

virtualCrypt 3.02 (Shareware, $100)

virtualCrypt is a highly sophisticated data protection software and stands far superior in terms of user interface and the encryption technology used as compared to any other data security products available. virtualCrypt allows you to define virtual drives. These drives are like any other normal drives on your computer but they are accessible and visible only when are mounted through authentication process. The data stored in these virtual drives is in encrypted format using strong 448 bit encryption with blowfish algorithm. Moreover these virtual drives are created in innocent sound files using steganographic technique.

Whats Up 2.01 (Shareware, $19.95)

Whats Up is a challenging Scrabble / Upwords type word game with a 3D twist ! Try to score as many points as you can by forming interconnecting words on the board. You start with seven letters, and the tiles have differing score values. What's Up includes three dictionaries