Word puzzles and maths worksheets

These Puzzle Press sheets start from your own material: a list of words, words with clues, or the kind of maths a class is practising. Click Puzzles on the left (or press 9) and choose the Kind of puzzle.

Word search

1. Choose Word search, or open the template Space word search.
2. Type your Words, one per line or separated by commas. Spaces and hyphens are left out of the grid; the list under the grid prints the words as you typed them.
3. Set the options: Diagonal words, Backwards words and Words may share letters. Grid size (0 = automatic) grows the grid until every word fits.
4. Capital letters uses the rules of the Language of the words — Turkish "istanbul" becomes İSTANBUL.

Any language works, cell by cell: accents, Cyrillic, Greek, Devanagari, Chinese and Arabic. For Arabic or Hebrew words the grid reads from right to left. If a word does not fit, a warning names it.

Crossword from your words and clues

1. Choose Crossword, or open the template Seaside crossword.
2. Under Words and clues write one line per word: the word, a colon and the clue, for example Anchor: Heavy hook that keeps a ship in place.
3. Printshop interlocks the words into a compact grid, numbers the squares and prints the Across and Down clues with the word lengths.

Words that share no letter with the others cannot be joined and are listed in a warning. A line without a clue still places the word but prints only its length. Press New puzzles for a different arrangement of the same words.

Maths worksheets with variants

1. Choose Maths worksheet, or open the template Times tables A, B, C.
2. Pick the Exercises: Times tables, Column addition, Column subtraction, Long multiplication, Division, Fractions or Mixed facts (+ − × ÷).
3. Set Problems per variant and Variants (A, B, C …). Each variant has different numbers of the same kind and difficulty, so neighbours get different sheets.

The fields below change with the exercise:

• Times tables takes a list such as 2-10 or 3, 4, 7, plus the Largest factor.
• Column addition and Column subtraction have Digits per number and Carrying and borrowing. Without it, no column needs carrying or borrowing.
• Division can allow Division with remainders.
• Fractions has the Largest denominator, the Operations and Same denominators only. Answers are always reduced.

Every variant gets its own answer-key page after the worksheets.

Play and share

Play on screen… works for all three: pick the first and last letter of each word in the word search, type letters into the crossword squares, or type answers into the maths sheet (fractions as 3/4, remainders as 7 R 2) and press Check.

The seed under Seed keeps every sheet reproducible: save the project or a share link and you can print the same sheets and answers again next week. Sudokus, mazes and nonograms are explained in Sudokus, mazes and nonograms with Puzzle Press.