## Description

_1,000,000 Crosswords_ has been produced as a way for foreign language
students to learn English, It was probably intended to aid Italian speakers
primarily because it plays in both English and Italian, i.e. the game
instructions can be viewed in Italian but all the games are in English.

The heart of the game is a crossword generator which takes its words from one
or a mixture of these six categories Adjectives, Idioms and Collocations,
Nouns, Phrasal Verbs. In addition the crosswords have six difficulty settings
and five different sizes ranging from 10X10 to 30×30. Puzzles can be printed
as blank puzzles for a student, part completed to be continued later or as a
teacher copy with all the answers filled in.

When playing a crossword not all the clues are visible at the same time, the
player can either click on the word in the grid to see the clue and fill it in
or they can click on a clue and the cursor will be taken to that word.
Unusually if the player enters an incorrect word the game allows the typing to
proceed and only enters the correct letters; for example if the answer was
GREEN and the player entered CREAM the ‘R’ and the ‘E’ would be the right
letters in the right place and would remain on screen.

In addition to the crossword puzzles there are also three varieties of word
search puzzle which also have six difficulty settings and can also be printed:

* The standard wordsearch where the player has to find all the words supplied in a list

* A Puzzle wordsearch where, instead of a list of words, the player is given a series of clues – one per word to be found

* An Anagram wordsearch where the words in the list provided are all jumbled up, the words within the grid are still in standard English though.

1,000,000 Crosswords