Personalized for one person
A personalized 11-page puzzle book for someone you know by heart.
Paste 8–15 facts about the person you’re celebrating. Puzzlenote writes dozens of clues from those facts, fits an easy and a hard personalized crossword, lays out two word searches (one friendly, one devious), hides a short love-note as a cryptogram, and emails you a printable 11-page PDF in about a minute, behind an illustrated cover for the occasion. Flat $5, no subscription, no account.
Pages from a real pack
Three of the eleven pages from our sample pack, made for a fictional uncle’s 60th birthday from the facts listed on the sample page. Every pack opens with the painted cover for its occasion; the puzzles are built from your facts.
Built from your own facts
Paste inside jokes, hobbies, catchphrases, and places. Every clue comes from something you actually wrote — we don't invent.
Instant, not 1–3 days
Etsy custom crosswords ship in 24–72 hours. Puzzlenote delivers in under a minute. Useful when the birthday is tomorrow.
Five puzzles in one pack
An easy crossword, a hard crossword (with mostly different words), an easy word search, a hard one with diagonals, and a personalized cryptogram that hides a short message, behind an illustrated cover. 11 printable pages.
One price, no lock-in
$5 per pack. No subscription, no account, no upsells.
How it works
- 1. Tell us about them. Pick the occasion; paste 8–15 facts; name the recipient.
- 2. Pay $5. One checkout, no account, no subscription.
- 3. Print the PDF. Eleven pages — an illustrated cover, easy + hard crossword, easy + hard word search, cryptogram, and all five solutions — in your inbox within a minute.
What’s this actually good for?
Milestone birthdays. Retirement parties. Teacher appreciation gifts. Bachelorette/bachelor games. Anniversaries. Baby shower activities. Memorial services for a grandparent the whole family knew. Anywhere a personalized handout would feel like a gift and a generic one would feel like filler.
Frequently asked
What if the crossword is thin or the pack misses the mark?
Our quality gate measures every fill: clue grounding against your facts, and a floor on the crossword's word count and intersections. If your pack came back below either bar, the order is flagged automatically and you can refund it from the order page for up to 90 days — no questions, no support thread.
What if I paid for a pack and never opened it?
If our logs show you never opened the order page or downloaded the PDF, you can refund the order yourself for up to 30 days from delivery. Same one-click button on the order page.
And if neither of those is true?
Email puzzlenote@forage.bot and we'll work it out case-by-case — we're a small team and we read every message.