Make a puzzle and send it to someone.
Most puzzle apps only deal you what they generated. Winters Puzzles lets you write one yourself — your own words, clues, questions or emoji — try it, then send a link so somebody else can play exactly what you made. No account or sign-up. The puzzle travels inside the link.
What you can make
5 puzzle types in the app can be written from scratch:
A Trivia round about your own family, a Word Search full of your friends’ names, a Moji puzzle built on a private joke — these are the puzzles no generator can produce, which is rather the point.
How it works
- Choose what to make. Pick one of the styles above from the Create tab.
- Write it. Add your answers, clues or questions and pick a difficulty. The app checks as you go that what you have written actually makes a playable puzzle.
- Try it yourself. Play the finished puzzle before it leaves your hands, so you can see it the way your friend will.
- Send the link. Share it in a message, an email, or anywhere else you would send a link. Your friend opens your puzzle in the free Winters Puzzles app on their iPhone or iPad.
Where the puzzle actually lives
The whole puzzle is packed into the link itself. It is compressed and written into the link when you share it, and unpacked again when your friend opens it — so there is no copy sitting on a server waiting to be looked at, and no public page anybody could stumble across.
- No account for you. Making and sharing a puzzle needs no sign-up and no email address.
- No account for them. Your friend needs the free iPhone or iPad app to play the puzzle you wrote. There is no login.
- The puzzle stays in the link. Winters Puzzles does not store a server copy or list it publicly.
- The link is the copy. Because there is no server copy, a puzzle sent to you can only be recovered from the original link — worth knowing before you clear a chat.
Packing the puzzle into the link puts a ceiling on its size, so a very long word list or a very wordy trivia round may need trimming by a word or two before it will send. The app tells you when that happens.
Questions people ask
Can I create a puzzle and share a link?
Yes. 5 puzzle types can be written in the app and shared as a link that carries the whole puzzle with it.
Does my friend need an account?
No. They need the free Winters Puzzles app on an iPhone or iPad to play a puzzle you’ve written. Neither person needs an account.
Is the puzzle I make public?
There is no public listing. Anyone with the link can open it, so share it with the people you choose.
Can I keep the puzzles I have made?
Yes — they are saved in the app, so you can play them again, edit them, or send them to somebody else later.
Build one and send it.
Free on iPhone and iPad. No account, either end.
