Quizzz API

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Crossword Puzzle ​

In short: give Quizzz a list of answers and clues — typed by hand or drafted by AI from a topic or your own material — and it lays out an interlocking crossword grid for you automatically. No design work, no tokens spent unless you use the AI assist.

A crossword is one question: a whole grid of vocabulary your students fill in from clues. It plays like any other quiz — assign it, share a link, embed it — but grades word by word instead of question by question.

Try it ​

This is a real crossword (Quizzz Official's animal-vocabulary demo) — click a cell and give it a go:

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Create one ​

  1. Open Quizzz ↗ → New Quiz and pick the Crossword Puzzle tile.

  2. Give it a title.

  3. Enter your words & clues — one per line, the answer first, then a space, then the clue students will see:

    dog Man's best friend
cat Likes to chase mice

    Answers need at least 2 characters. Words that share letters cross each other more easily, so a themed list (animals, school vocabulary, everyday words…) tends to build a denser grid than an unrelated one. Prefer a table instead of typing? Switch the word editor view to List for an Answer / Clue grid with the same content.

  4. Don't have a word list yet? Use Generate words with AI: give it a topic (e.g. "JLPT N4 verbs") or switch to Material and paste or upload lesson text (.txt, .md, .pdf, .csv, .xlsx, up to 20,000 characters). Quizzz picks a fully-interlocking subset of words for the grid and keeps the rest as bench words you can add with one click if you want a bigger puzzle. A few quick-start presets (animal, school, everyday vocabulary) are also one click away if you just want to try it.

  5. Watch the live preview on the right — it redraws as you type, showing the grid size and how many of your words got placed. A word that can't interlock with anything else is listed separately as unplaced so you can edit its spelling, swap it for another word, or remove it.

  6. Left a clue blank? Saving still works — Quizzz drops in a placeholder — but replace it with a real definition, translation, or short context before you publish, since students will read it as the actual clue.

  7. Click Save crossword. It's added to your quiz library like any other quiz, ready to assign, share a link for, or embed. If you navigate away first, your work autosaves as a draft you can resume from Continue a recent draft.

Share your word list with other teachers

After saving, you can generate a template link — a public page other teachers can browse and import into their own library (title, words, and clues only; never your students' data).

What students see ​

Crossword only plays in Classic mode (the whole grid on one page, submitted once) — Guided and Interactive don't apply to a puzzle grid. Students tap a cell to select the word crossing it; tapping the same cell again switches between the across and down word. If they try to submit with empty cells, Quizzz asks them to confirm first. After submitting they see how many words they got right out of the total, with the clue list and grid cross-highlighted for review.

Good to know ​

  • Japanese crosswords must be entirely hiragana — no katakana, no kanji. The grid engine matches crossing letters exactly, and hiragana/katakana for the same sound are different characters, so mixed spellings can't cross. AI-generated Japanese word lists handle this for you automatically.
  • Manual entry and the quick-start presets never use AI credits. Generate words with AI (topic or material) draws on your plan's monthly AI quota, same as regular quiz generation.
  • There's no fixed grid size — it grows to fit your word list. A crossword needs at least one word that fits the grid to save.
  • You can also download a crossword as a printable PDF worksheet from the quiz's Download action, same as any quiz (the furigana/pinyin toggle is hidden for crosswords — there's no running text to annotate).

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