Schmoll Crossword is free, with no ads. Five new puzzles every day: Easy, Medium, Hard, a bigger Challenge and a Boss.

Code

© Miles D'Antonio. MIT License: anyone may reuse it as long as the copyright notice stays. Source code on GitHub

Word list

Built from SCOWL by Kevin Atkinson and Spread the Word(list) by Brooke Husic and Enrique Henestroza Anguiano. Adapted (only words in both lists, filtered by difficulty) and shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, and so are the puzzles and clues made from it, which is why the game stays non-commercial.

Clues

Assisted by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, and checked by the game. Spot a bad one? Report a problem (or use the link under any puzzle).

Fonts

Nunito, Caveat, Patrick Hand, Orbitron, Exo 2, Fredoka, Press Start 2P, VT323, Quicksand, Patua One, Baloo 2, Lilita One, IM Fell English SC, Courier Prime, Bungee, Comfortaa, Rye, Russo One, Share Tech Mono, Shrikhand, Pacifico and Josefin Sans, originally from Google Fonts and served from this site, under the SIL Open Font License.

Sounds & Music

Boss fight sounds by Kenney; each boss's music, and every campaign level's own song, by artists on OpenGameArt (vitalezzz, nene, Umplix, HydroGene, Emma_MA, MintoDog, Spring Spring, Zane Little Music, Bobjt, glitchart, Kistol, Pro Sensory, Tozan, cynicmusic, congusbongus and more), plus music composed for the game by Claude with the GeneralUser GS SoundFont (the story, the win and losing music, the Sphinx's second song and the Phantom Librarian's two songs). Almost all public domain (CC0); five boss songs are under Creative Commons licenses that need credit. Every track and author is in the Credits (Help & Legal, above).

Art & Sound

Every scene and animation is drawn in code for this game, and most sounds are made live in code.