Cross+A 7.04

Solve crosswords, anagrams, word-based puzzles and nonograms The purpose of Cross+A is to simplify the solution of crosswords, word-based puzzles, anagrams, criptorithms and nonograms.
Cross+A is a useful application which provides very flexible and powerful search tools. User can search English words by known letters and descriptions as well as find anagrams and word-combinations.
Cross+A uses a dictionary of 158000 English words (part of them - with descriptions). User can add new words, delete and change descriptions or copy them to the clipboard.
Cross+A has a nonogram editor for the puzzle creating. Cross+A contains the list of English proverbs and sayings.
This is a multilingual version of the popular Russian program Cross+A by Sergey Kutasov and Ilya Morozov. It uses a dictionary of 158000 English words (part of them - with descriptions). User can add new words, delete and change descriptions or copy them to the clipboard. Cross+A also includes the list of English proverbs and sayings. The lists of words for other languages are available for downloading.
Main features:
Search by Letters
- Search word by known length and letters.
Anagram Search
- This mode has two special options:
"Descending" Search
- Search for all words that can be created from the text letters.
- For example, for the word option the program will find the words list: point, piton, top, into, tip, etc.
"Ascending" Search
- Search for all words that include all letters of the text.
- For example, for the word element the program will find the words list: settlement, development, experimental, acknowledgement, electromagnetism, etc.
Search by Description
- This search mode is used when some words in the target word description are known.
Search by Pattern
- Search with use of special wildcard characters.
Word-combination Search
- The program tries to create word-combinations using the text letters.
- For example: incredible = nice + bridle.
Telephone Number Search
- The program finds word equivalents for the telephone numbers. Telephone number digits are substituted by letters written on telephone set buttons.
- For example: 728-74-68 = PATRIOT.
Search by Syllables
- The program creates words using syllables from the users list.
- For example: at,be,e,for = ate, beat, bee, before, fore.
Coupling Words Search
- Search for pairs of words where the first word ending is equal to the second word beginning.
- For example: ?????(gen)???? = PATHOGEN and GENESIS.
Trackword Search
- Search for words, which can be made by moving from letter to letter horizontally or vertically in the grid.
Cryptarithm
- Cryptarithm is an mathematical puzzle involving words where there is a one-to-one mapping between letters and digits that makes the arithmetic equation true. For example: MOTHER+FATHER=PARENT => 196753+286753=483506.
Word-chain Search
- Search for chains of words, where every word differs from its neighbors by one or few letters. For example: FLY - FAY - FAT - CAT.
Nonogram Solving
- Solve black-and-white and multicolored nonograms (griddlers). User also can create his own nonogram.
Sudoku Solving
- 9 x 9, 16 x 16, Sudoku X, Geometry Sudoku (Kikagaku Nanpure), Godoku (Wordoku), Samurai Sudoku, Killer Sudoku, Greater Than Sudoku, Even-Odd Sudoku, Flower Sudoku, Consecutive Sudoku.
Kakuro Solving
System requirements:
Minimum system requirements:
- Intel Pentium 200 MHz
- 32 MB
- about 6 MB free space
- Screen resolution 800 x 600
Recommended system:
- Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or higher
- 64 MB
- about 6 MB free space
- Screen resolution 1024 x 768
Version restrictions:
- The unregistered version allows to use only a part of English words database (words with 6 letters length) and solve nonograms not larger than 20 x 20. In order to have access to all database it is necessary to register the program.