Crosswords

Traditional games theme

Players acquire words, usually in the form of guesses or hints or trivia questions, & then apply them to blank rows & columns that cross each other.

132
games
34
platforms

Alternate name: Crossword Puzzles

Catalan - Mots encreuats
Chinese (Simplified) - 填字遊戲
French - Mots Croises
Czech - Křížovka
Danish - Kryds og Tværs
Dutch - Kruiswoordraadsel
Estonian - Ristsõnad
Filipino - Krosword
Finnish - Sanaristikko
Galician - Palabras Cruzadas
German - Kreuzworträtsel
Greek - Σταυρόλεξο
Hebrew - משבץ) מַּשְׁבֵּץ?) Tashbetz[Tashbêtz]
Irish - Crosfhocal?
Italian - Cruciverba
Japanese - クロスワード
Korean - 크로스워드 퍼즐 (십자말?)
Polish - Krzyżówka
Portugese - Palavras Cruzadas
Russian - Кросворд
Spanish - Crucigrama
Swedish - Korsord
Vietnamese - trò chơi ô chư
Welsh - Croesair

Popular tags

arg chess jigsaw mastermind scrabble wordgame

Parent group

Word game

Games by year

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The first Crosswords video game was released in 1976.

UpTime, Uptown Software and Success published most of these games.

Platforms

Apple II E 29
MS-DOS 21
Mac OS Classic 12
Linux 10
Windows 5
PS 4
Win3.1 4
C64 4
WinCE 4
Amstrad CPC 4
Atari 400/800 3
ZX Spectrum 3
OS/2 3
Nintendo DS 2
BBC 2
Amiga 2
Atari ST 2
X360 2
Oric 1
Astrocade 1
NeXT 1
BSD 1
Newton 1
GBA 1
Tandy Coco 1
Apple I 1
MSX2 1
iOS 1
Cybervision 1
Commodore PET 1

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