About this plugin
Daily puzzles are one of the clearest reader-retention plays in publishing right now — but until now, that’s mostly been available to large newsrooms. EV Puzzles brings the same mechanic to any WordPress site.
Generate word lists in seconds, from a prompt or from your own articles
The admin interface uses AI to generate lists of words and hints for your puzzles — either from a manual prompt, or straight from the content of one of your existing posts. This is the fastest way to turn an article you’ve already written into a puzzle readers can play.
Or skip AI entirely
Every AI feature is optional. Build a crossword manually by typing your word list or adding words one by one.
Native to the block editor
Puzzles embed as real Gutenberg blocks — no shortcodes, no iframes.
Crosswords
Create Crosswords from a word list, and/or use the visual editor to manually add/remove words. Save it and add it to your pages and posts.
Word Search Puzzles
Add Word search puzzles to your pages and posts. They auto-generate from your word list (configurable grid size, optional diagonal/reversed words) and can be regenerated as many times as you like before saving.
Dots and Boxes
Add the classic pencil-and-paper game to your website. Users get to play vs. the built-in AI or local 2-player pass-and-play (to people taking turns on same device).
Checkered Force: an original strategy game, not just word puzzles
com 2-player abstract strategy board game, playable here single-player against a built-in AI with four difficulty levels. No word list or admin authoring required: add the block, pick a difficulty, and readers can play immediately.
EVQ Quizzes
Create Interactive Quizzes with informational screens and questions to help your readers learn about your products, services, content, or specific subjects for educational websites. Scripted as JSON, a reader moves scene to scene using Previous/Next/action buttons you define, and you can send them down a different path depending on how they scored on a question. They get a final score too.
See what readers actually finish
Built-in plays and completions tracking, right inside wp-admin, so you can see which puzzles are working without a separate analytics tool.
Bring your own AI provider
Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or a self-hosted Ollama instance — your key, your data, your choice.
User Manual included
An user manual, available from the Admin interface, is included, which provides text and visual explanations, making it very easy to learn how to use the plugin.
Free vs. Pro
EV Puzzles is free and fully functional today — unlimited puzzles, AI or manual word list creation, native blocks, and usage tracking, all included, no account required. The only thing the free version adds to your page is a small “Puzzles powered by Entreveloper” credit link shown under each puzzle viewer.
A Pro tier is available, and additional features are in active development. It is suitable for publishers who want to run daily puzzles as a serious retention strategy: scheduled/automated puzzle publishing, reader streaks and leaderboards, deeper retention analytics, a printable magazine-style crossword hints table, and multi-site licensing for agencies. com/pricing/ “Pricing info for pro version”) for more information.