Welcome to Paulspages Codeword Designer

Tools to help you design codeword puzzles - and solve them!


Codeword Designer



Design from scratch or use a pre-built grid, any grid size, built-in 450,000+ item dictionary to help you find the right word, import/export as text for safe storage, email your puzzles to your friends!

Codeword Solver



Load a puzzle from the Designer, get extra letter hints, auto-fill same-code squares - plus that 450,000+ word dictionary!

Grid gallery



Some sample puzzle grids to get you started in the Designer.

Puzzle Gallery



Some pre-built puzzle to load into the Solver. Practice your solving skills!


Codeword Designer and Solver run in most modern browsers - if they don't work in yours, check whether it's HTML5 compatible.
Web page design and program code © Paul Stephens 2018, all rights reserved.