Codeword puzzle books for Amazon KDP & Etsy

A crossword without clues. Every square holds a number from 1 to 26 instead, and each number always stands for the same letter. A few letters are given to start; the solver uses them to guess the words around them, finds more letters and so cracks the whole code. Codewords are also called codebreakers or code crackers.

Before a codeword goes into your book, a solver tries every filling of the grid that the dictionary allows with the given letters. If two fillings work, the puzzle gets one more given letter and is checked again. The book check in the configurator shows the result for the first puzzles of your book.

A cryptogram encodes a quote with letters; a codeword encodes a crossword grid with numbers. The crossing words make codewords more visual and give solvers two directions to check every letter, which is why they are a favorite in British and American puzzle magazines.

You choose: 1 to 6 in standard books, 2 to 8 in kids books. Fewer letters make a harder puzzle. If a grid needs one more letter to have a single answer, it gets it; the book check tells you how often that happens.

Yes. Paste or upload a word list (Title,Word1,Word2… or # Title followed by words); each topic fills a grid. Common words work best, because every puzzle is checked to have exactly one answer.

Yes. Books generated on paid plans and with credit packs include a full commercial license, KDP trim sizes with safe margins and answer keys, and you keep 100% of your royalties.

The Pro and Publisher plans and the free trial. Books in languages other than English need the Publisher plan or the free trial.

One credit per puzzle (one freeform grid up to 17×17 with its code, checked for one answer). A 50-puzzle book costs 50 credits, and re-exporting the same book with design changes is free.

Yes. Mixed books can contain Codewords, Sudoku, Word Search, Maze, Word Scramble, Missing Vowels, Fill-In, Classic Number Search, Missing Vowel Word Search, Crossword, Cryptogram, Anagram, Mine Finder, Hidden Message Word Search, Number Search, Wordoku, Nonogram, Color Nonogram, Zebra Nonogram and Triangle Nonogram chapters in any order. Every plan makes mixed books from the puzzle types it includes: Starter mixes Sudoku, Word Search, Maze, Word Scramble, Missing Vowels, Fill-In, Classic Number Search and Missing Vowel Word Search; Pro mixes 17 types (all but Color Nonogram, Zebra Nonogram and Triangle Nonogram); Publisher mixes all 20 types.

Yes, on the Publisher plan and in the free trial. Pick one of 10 book languages, one for each Amazon marketplace: English (amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca, amazon.com.au, amazon.in), German (amazon.de), French (amazon.fr), Spanish (amazon.es, amazon.com.mx), Italian (amazon.it), Dutch (amazon.nl), Brazilian Portuguese (amazon.com.br), Japanese (amazon.co.jp), Polish (amazon.pl), Swedish (amazon.se). Wisdom Effect then prints the texts it writes into the book in that language: puzzle and solution titles, chapter headings, the table of contents, difficulty labels, the copyright page (10 legal templates), the intro and thank-you pages and the labels on the puzzle pages, seasonal editions included. The built-in themes come translated into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish and Swedish (Japanese books use the English words), and the grid keeps the letters of the language, such as Ä, Ñ, Ł or Å. Your own word lists print as you type them. Letters such as Ä or Ł get numbers of their own, so a code can run past 26. Texts you write yourself are not translated, so write them in the book's language. Starter and Pro books are printed in English.