The Most Convenient Application to Play Crosswords Online

isBooth: Passion for crossword puzzles

• isBooth Crosswords: your preferred webapp
  • Play comfortably at home on your Desktop or your Console (Xbox, Playstation)
  • Play offline on the beach or in the train, wherever you want with your Tablet, Notebook or Smartphone
  • Choose traditional crosswords, diagrammless skeleton crosswords, fill-in crosswords and crusadex, crosswords research, or facilitated crosswords
  • Choose your size → from the small 6x6 for Smartphone to the very large 22x22 for Desktops
  • Enjoy easy readability, correction and error detection
  • Enjoy the same ease as when playing Scandinavian crosswords (arrowords)
  • Select your preferred writer and theme among our lists
  • Choose among thousands of crosswords in several languages
  • Save the planet: you cannot print the crosswords
• Several crosswords variants
• Traditional crosswords
  • a traditional crossword puzzle requires to find all the letters of a grid of squares, where the words cross in the across and down directions
  • the words are separated by black shaded squares, each word is numbered and for each word a corresponding clue or hint is given
• Diagramless or skeleton crosswords
  • in the diagramless or skeleton crosswords, the player also need to find where the black shaded squares are located
  • the clues are given in order for each column and each row, insted of being numbered for each word
  • within the isBooth application you need to use the '#' key to input shaded squares (or the key for the number 3)
• Crusadex (or cruzadex)
  • in the crusadex the clues are given either as unordered list (isbooth case) or by the length of the clue, with no reference to what word their correspond to
  • in most crusadex the player needs also to add black shaded squares to the grids; in the isBooth application all the black shaded squares of the crusadex are given from the beginning
  • this game is reserved to expert players
• Crosswords research
  • the crosswords research is the most difficult of our crosswords
  • it consists in a diagrammless crossword with the clues given without any order, where only some pre-inserted letters give hints to the player to start building a solution
• Facilitated crosswords
  • for beginners: some pre-inserted letters simplify the solution of a traditional crossword
• Scandinavian crosswords or arrowords
  • very popular, this crosswords show short clues inside the black shaded squares of a traditional crossword, reducing the reading effort of the player
  • isBooth do not provide this game, as on a computer screen, we can get even easier reading conditions with the more flexible traditional crossword setup
• More information and references about crosswords
  • Wikipedia Crosswords
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  • Crosswords Online
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How to use isBooth crosswords application: help and tips

1. How to search and load crosswords
2. The selection screen
   • on the left of the selection screen appears a list of crosswords collections, each with a description of the language, size, difficulty, author and publication date of the included crosswords
   • inside each collection, there are approximately ten different crosswords, which will appear on the right of the selection screen when you press on the collection
   • each square on the right correspond to a single crossword, that you can open with a click
   • a progress bar shows the progress in the crosswords solution
3. Memory and isBooth database sections
   • On top of the selection screen appears the memory list, with all the collections of crosswords present in the local memory at the start of the game session
   • a second session shows the search results from the isBooth database
   • when you click on a collection in the search results, the collection is downloaded to your memory and the crosswords become visible
   • when the local memory exceeds 10 collections, the collections are removed from memory with a first-in-first-out logic
   • if you clear your local memory, all the downloaded collections and progress status are lost
   • if you play in private / incognito modes, the memory is not updated
   • obviously search results will only appear when you are online
4. Choosing the language of the crosswords
   • Clicking on the language flag on the command bar relaunches a database search for collections of crosswords in the selected language
5. The search options window
   • the clicking on the lense icon on the command bar opens the search options window
   • in the search option window, you can select the size, the difficulty, the author and the publishing date of the crosswords you wish to find
   • the search starts, when you click on the red search button at the top
6. How to select the type of crosswords
   • a click on the four arrows icon on the command bar opens the type selection window
   • there you can select facilitated crosswords, traditional crosswords, diagrammless skeleton crosswords, crusadex or crosswords research
7. How to play crosswords
8. Active square and active word
   • the square highlighted in blue is the active square: any keyboard input will end in that square
   • the squares highlighted in gray belongs to the active word: its clue appears in the clue bar on the top
   • you can input your letters with a physical or a virtual keyboard
   • the backspace key delete the last letter
   • the space and return keys allow changing word direction
   • clicking twice on the same square also allows changing word direction
   • the hash key is used to input a black square
9. The clues and the clues table
   • The current clue appears on the top of the crossword, the clue table appears on the left side
   • You can show or hide the clues table with the correponding icon on the top bar
10. The icons on the top bar: hints, errors and zoom
    • The magic wand icon make the current word appear
    • the ERR icon activate or desactivate the error tracking mode
    • the zoom is optimized for the size of your screen
    • with the zoom icon you can select full screen or horizontal fit
11. Subscriptions
    • Some demo crosswords collections are available for free
    • it is necessary to subscribe to isBooth, to gain full access to the database of crosswords
    • you can opt for a monthly or a cheaper annual subscription