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Crossword Book Blueprints
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30 ready-to-build crossword book plans for Crossword Puzzle Creator
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What this is
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Thirty complete book plans. Each one gives you a book idea, a working title and subtitle, who it is for, the age setting to pick in the app, how many puzzles to make, and a list of topics ready to paste (664 topics in all). You choose a plan, paste its topics into the app, and let the app build the book.
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How to use a blueprint (4 steps)
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1. Open the tab "30 Blueprints". Use the small arrows in the top row to filter by Collection or by Age.
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2. Open Crossword Puzzle Creator. In Step 1 set the Age group and (when a plan says so) the Trim size, exactly as the plan shows. The plan's Puzzles column is the whole book. Ask your AI for about 5 puzzles at a time (3 to 4 at the Adult levels) and build the book in rounds (see "Big books" below).
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3. Open the tab "Paste-ready topics". Find your plan's column, click its first topic, drag down over the topics for this round (about 5), copy, and paste into the Themes box in Step 1. Each topic lands on its own line, which is what the box expects.
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4. Carry on as usual: Step 2 (copy the prompt into any AI), Step 3 (paste its answer, Build puzzles), then Download PDF.
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Big books: build them in rounds
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An AI can only write so much in one answer. Ask for too much and it can stop halfway. The app then keeps the puzzles the AI finished and shows a blue box with a prompt for the rest, but smaller requests are less likely to be cut off. So ask for about 5 puzzles at a time (3 to 4 at the Adult levels, whose puzzles are bigger) and build the plan in rounds:
Round 1: paste the first 5 topics, set Number of puzzles to 5, click Build puzzles, then click "Save book file".
Round 2: replace the Themes with the next topics from the same column, copy the prompt again, paste it into your AI, paste the answer back and click "Add to book" instead of "Build puzzles".
Round 3 and on: the same with the next topics, until the book is full. Words that repeat between rounds are removed for you.
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Why the puzzle counts are different
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Each plan has its own topics, one per puzzle, so no topic is asked to carry many puzzles. If you type your own, use at least half as many topics as puzzles.
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Inside one book, every answer has to be different. A small topic runs out of fresh words fast, so narrower ideas (weather, mystery, fantasy) get fewer puzzles on purpose. Each topic is a small scene, such as "Market Day" or "The Hotel Pool", rather than a thin list of one kind of thing, so the AI always has plenty of everyday words to use.
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Good habits before you publish
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• Read every clue. Turn on "Show answers on preview" and check them. AI can get a fact or a word wrong, especially in the plans marked "Check the facts".
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• You can add a few words to any topic line to steer it, for example: The Haunted House (friendly, not scary).
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• The app does not allow proper nouns as answers (no names of people, places or characters). The topics here are written with that in mind.
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• Keep brand names and film, game or toy characters out of your titles, topics, covers and descriptions. Amazon KDP can reject a book for it, and the rights are not yours to use.
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• Titles and subtitles are working titles. Make them yours, and change the order or the topics freely.
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• Page counts are about right for the app's normal pages (title, copyright, "This book belongs to", how-to-play and the answer key). The Thank-you page is off by default. KDP needs at least 24 pages, so the app pads a shorter book for you.
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What is NOT in this file
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No sales numbers and no keyword or search-volume figures. We do not have that data and will not invent it. The column "Amazon search to try" is only a phrase to type into Amazon's Books search: look at what already exists before you commit, and make your book clearly different (a sharper angle, a better cover, a better title).
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The columns on "30 Blueprints"
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Collection · Working title · Subtitle · Who it is for · Age setting (the Age group button in the app) · Puzzles · Trim size · Pages (about) · A few of the topics · Ideas for the next volumes · Amazon search to try · Cover idea · Heads-up.
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