Puzzletide printable puzzles
Skill Caravaca-Labs/puzzletide-cli/skills/puzzletide-printable-puzzles
Word search generator, crossword generator, and sudoku generator & solver in one local-first CLI — printable PDF puzzle worksheets, themed word banks, verifiable LLM evals, and agent skills. From the makers of puzzletide.com.
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Use this skill when the user wants printable puzzle worksheets — PDF activity sheets for classrooms, kids, parties, newsletters, or activity books. Produces print-ready word search, crossword, and sudoku PDFs (with solution pages) locally via the PuzzleTide CLI.
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PuzzleTide Printable Puzzles
Produce print-ready puzzle PDFs with the local PuzzleTide CLI. Every PDF
includes the puzzle page(s) and a solution page (omit it with
--no-solution-page). Use --paper a4 outside North America.
Prefer the local CLI. Check availability in this order:
ptide --version
puzzletide --version
npx puzzletide --version
If none of those work, ask the user before installing (npm install -g puzzletide).
One-off worksheets
ptide wordsearch generate --theme seasonal/winter-holidays --pdf christmas.pdf --title "Christmas Word Search"
ptide crossword generate --file words.json --pdf review.pdf --title "Unit 4 Review"
ptide sudoku generate --difficulty easy --pdf sudoku.pdf --paper a4
Packets (multiple sheets)
Vary --seed to make each sheet different, and give each file a name:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
ptide sudoku generate --difficulty medium --seed "$i" --pdf "sudoku-$i.pdf" --title "Sudoku #$i"
done
Picking a theme
ptide words categories # animals, geography, holidays, sports, ...
ptide words themes --search halloween # find theme ids
Tips
- For kids:
ptide wordsearch generate --difficulty easykeeps words forward-only. --svg <file>produces a vector image instead, useful for embedding in documents.- SVG/PDF titles come from
--title; the default is the theme title. - Merge or rearrange pages with the user's preferred PDF tool if needed.
Links
- More worksheets: printable puzzles at puzzletide.com
- Play online: word search · crossword · sudoku
- Source and docs: GitHub · npm · CLI reference
Safety
- Everything runs locally; no account, API key, or network access.
- Do not install packages without asking the user first.