Bespoke Crossword Solutions for Publishers and Brands
Create high-quality crosswords in any language, shape, or size. Add custom words & themes, design any grid shape, allocate space for ads, and make every crossword feel tailored for your audience.
1/7Design for your audience
Curated wordlists for better crosswords
Great crosswords start with great words. Kryss wordlists are filtered, varied, and organized by difficulty, so each puzzle feels natural, interesting, and right for your audience. Use ours, upload your own, or mix and match across languages.
2/7Optimize your layouts
High-quality boards, generated automatically
Kryss can spend extra time optimizing each board for a cleaner solving experience: lower clue density, stronger layouts, no repeated words, longer answers, and more varied vocabulary. Or, when speed matters, generate a high volume of ready-to-review boards in seconds.
3/7On-brand puzzles
Your keywords, injected naturally
Add brand terms, themed vocabulary, sponsor words, or easter eggs. Our maker weaves them into the crossword while preserving puzzle quality.
4/7Any shape or format
Crosswords that fit your space
Not every puzzle needs to be a square. Create crosswords for print pages, web layouts, newsletters, columns, campaign placements, or awkward empty spaces — in the size and shape your format needs.
5/7Languages & image clues
More languages. More ways to play.
Kryss supports 12+ languages, plus text and image clues for a more visual solving experience. Use our image library, upload your own, or expand to new languages on request.
+ more6/7Review & manage
A cleaner workflow for your crosswords
Save puzzles, return to drafts, review quality stats, and manage your crossword library in one place. Check repetitions, word lengths, clue density, image clues, and board structure before publishing.
- Autumn Issue · 15×15Published
- Holiday Campaign · 11×11Draft
- Weekly Mini · 7×7Draft
7/7Licensing & pricing
Premium crossword tech, accessible pricing
We offer full crossword licensing with flexible packages based on your needs, volume, languages, and formats. For selected launch partners, we can offer especially competitive rates to make getting started simple.
- Full crossword licensing
- Publishers, brands, platforms & content teams
- Flexible formats, languages & volume
- Competitive launch pricing
+ more- Autumn Issue · 15×15Published
- Holiday Campaign · 11×11Draft
- Weekly Mini · 7×7Draft
- Full crossword licensing
- Publishers, brands, platforms & content teams
- Flexible formats, languages & volume
- Competitive launch pricing
Frequently Asked Questions
For publishers, brands, and content partners
- Yes. You can try our public crossword maker to get a quick feel for Kryss generation. Just note that this is a basic, speed-focused version built for casual users. Our publisher tools can support more advanced controls, custom wordlists, branded words, image clues, layout optimization, licensing, review workflows, and custom formats.
- Yes. Kryss can generate crosswords in almost any shape and size — not just classic square grids. That means print columns, web modules, newsletter blocks, banner spaces, custom page gaps, campaign layouts, or unusual editorial formats. We can even generate boards up to around 1,000 tiles in minutes, which is more than most use cases need, but useful for large-format or experimental projects. While this feature is still in testing and is coming soon, you can contact us for priority access if this is important for your publication or campaign.
- Yes. Crossword layouts can include reserved advertiser slots. You can define approximate placement and size, then generate crossword boards around those spaces. This makes it easier to create sponsored puzzles, branded placements, print integrations, or campaign-specific layouts without treating ads as an afterthought. While this feature is still in testing and is coming soon, you can contact us for priority access if this is important for your publication or campaign.
- Yes. You can provide brand terms, campaign words, article topics, sponsor vocabulary, seasonal themes, locations, product names, or your own custom wordlists. Kryss can work these into the puzzle while still optimizing for board quality, word balance, and a natural solving experience.
- Yes. Kryss already supports 12+ languages, and we can add new languages on demand. For left-to-right languages, we can usually add support quickly, especially if you already have vocabulary lists or language-specific requirements. Contact us if you need a specific language for your audience.
- This is coming soon. The goal is to let publishers place specific words in exact board positions, which is useful for branded layouts, sponsor words, hidden messages, editorial themes, or custom puzzle formats. Contact us for priority access if this is important for your use case.
- This is coming soon. We are working on support for puzzle formats where selected numbered letters across the crossword reveal a hidden final word, answer, or message once the puzzle is solved. This is useful for contests, campaigns, educational puzzles, and more interactive reader experiences. Contact us for priority access.
- Yes. We offer full crossword licensing for publishers, brands, platforms, and content teams. Pricing depends on usage, volume, languages, formats, customization needs, and whether you need web, print, campaign, or ongoing publishing rights.
Build crosswords your audience will come back for
Tell us what you need — language, format, wordlists, publishing use case, or campaign idea — and we'll help shape the right crossword solution.