Designed by a 20-year plus teaching veteran, GridForge Studio is packed with groundbreaking features that solve real classroom challenges. Create differentiated, accessible, and truly effective learning materials in minutes, not hours.
You've seen wordsearch creators before. But we guarantee you've never seen anything like this! GridForge Studio is far and away the most advanced wordsearch creator on the planet. Now you can produce wordsearch puzzles that have genuine educational value, not just the time fillers that it is all too easy for them to become.
Core Pedagogical Features
The Differentiation Engine
- Per-List Direction Control: Set different directions for different word lists in the same puzzle.
- Linked word lists: Create two word lists and link them. GridForge ensures that placement is done in pairs, so that no word is ever placed unless its partner also is. Excellent for bilingual puzzles, for example put English words in list one, set them to use any direction, put the French equivalents in list two, set these to only be placed left to right. Place metals in one direction, non-metals in a different direction, ask the pupils if they can see the pattern.
- Advanced Phonics & Spelling: Automatically remove vowels, first letters, or last letters to create targeted "fill-in-the-blank" exercises.
- "Prime Distractors": Actively teach correct spelling by including common misspellings as decoys in the grid. A powerful diagnostic and teaching tool.
- "Words as Entered" Mode: Create grammatically correct puzzles using proper nouns—perfect for history, geography, and literature topics.
Classroom Management, Solved
- "Classroom Set" Generator: Create up to 30 unique, numbered versions of the same puzzle with a single click, complete with matching numbered solution sheets. The ultimate anti-cheating tool. (Educator Plus only).
- Automatic Word Validation: GridForge Studio intelligently checks your word list for duplicates or overlaps (for example "courage" and "encourage") before generation, preventing frustrating errors.
Unmatched Accessibility
Font Library: Includes a curated collection of fonts designed for learners with dyslexia, SEN, and impaired vision. Access to all local fonts installed on your pc, and a range of Google fonts.
Zoomable Interactive Puzzles: The HTML5 export includes a zoom slider up to 400%, perfect for visually impaired students or for use on an interactive whiteboard. One click 'High Clarity' mode removes all styling, gives a choice of colour palettes, and switches to Lexend font.
Creative Classroom Engagement
Add simple styling to wordsearches, with square, circle and star shape cell styles available. The Educator Plus tier unlocks a suite of fun, themed cell shapes like leaves, clouds, and water drops to create visually engaging worksheets that capture students' imaginations, as well as a suite of stunningly powerful utilities for creating cloze activities and worksheets, and analysing text. And an extensible database of over 110 thousand words. For more information on the Educator Plus version, please have a look at the Educator Plus page.
GridForge is designed for educators, with a plethora of features to help make life easier for busy teachers, assistants, tutors and home educators. At last, produce word search puzzles with genuine educational value.