Puzzle-solving is an active type of learning and will help engage students with the Chinese words more than passive types of review techniques. This tool allows you to create customizable Chinese word/sentence and Pinyin crossword puzzles based on the Chinese words and sentences that you are teaching or learning.

For Pinyin puzzles, it is recommended to use compound words, rather than single characters, to create the crossword puzzles because the Pinyin of single characters could be too short to create a typical crossword puzzle.

For Chinese word and sentence crossword puzzles, it is recommended to use 3 to 7 entries and make sure there are 2 or more shared characters between any two words or sentences. Otherwise, the words or sentences won't be crossed.

Like other Arch Chinese tools, you can simply load a vocab list and click the Print button to generate a crossword puzzle. If the vocab list has many entries, only up to ten of the entries will be used. For Pinyin puzzles, if a puzzle cannot be made with the entered vocab list, the system may also insert a random word from the Chinese-English dictionary to make it possible.