CrossCraft
CrossCraft puts a small crossword on a native in-game screen, where every answer is something from the game: mobs, blocks, biomes, enchantments, potions, updates, a bit of old lore. Every day there is one grid, and it’s the same grid for everyone. Click a cell, type, and the puzzle grades itself the moment the last cell is filled.
- Clues are trivia and wordplay: Skeleton’s weapon, Hotbar space, Mob that ruins builds, ___ & Tales, the 1.20 update.
- Some clues are just an item icon. Name what’s pictured.
- Grids are 5x5, 6x6 or 7x7, and the size changes from day to day.
Part of MCTGames
Section titled “Part of MCTGames”CrossCraft now ships inside MCTGames, one mod with all three daily puzzles and a hub to pick from. The rules, boards and daily sequence on this page are unchanged in the bundle; the standalone mod is no longer updated. Remove the standalone jar before installing the bundle.
Requirements
Section titled “Requirements”- Minecraft 26.2, Fabric with Fabric API. For Minecraft 26.3 or 26.1.2, or for NeoForge, install MCTGames instead.
- Install on both client and server. In singleplayer it just works. Players without the mod can’t open the board, and nothing else breaks for them.
Download
Section titled “Download”How to play
Section titled “How to play”Run /crosscraft. Click a cell and type. Click it again or press Space to switch between across and down, Tab to jump to the next clue, Backspace to erase, arrow keys to move.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Check | Marks every wrong letter. It costs you a clean solve |
| Reveal | Fills in the answers and ends the game |
| Times | Today’s fastest solvers on the server, and your career stats |
| Share | Copies a coloured-square results grid to your clipboard |
The clock runs while the board is open; close it to pause. Solve the daily and the server announces your time in chat.
Commands
Section titled “Commands”| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/crosscraft |
Today’s daily puzzle (or your finished grid, once done) |
/crosscraft random |
Practice mode, unlimited grids |
/crosscraft random new |
Abandon the current practice grid, deal a fresh one |
Features
Section titled “Features”- A global daily that resets at midnight US Eastern. Every server on the same version has the same grid.
- A daily leaderboard. The fastest solvers on the server, with clean solves marked.
- Streaks and stats. Played, won, clean solves, current streak, best streak, fastest time.
- Practice mode that never deals you today’s daily, so it can’t spoil it.
- High contrast mode with a colourblind-safe palette.
- Nothing to cheat with. The server holds the answers and keeps the clock. Your client only ever gets the shape of the grid and the clues; the letters travel the other way, and the solution only arrives once the game is over.
- 290 grids in MCTGames (the standalone mod stopped at 260), built from a hand-written bank of about 700 Minecraft answers, dealt like a deck so none repeats within a cycle.
- Saves your progress. Log out mid-grid and pick up where you left off, clock included.
- Login nudge. A clickable
/crosscraftin chat when a new daily is waiting.
About the grids
Section titled “About the grids”Words run along alternate rows and columns and cross at every other letter, British-style, so half the letters are unchecked. That is what lets an all-Minecraft vocabulary fill a grid at all: a fully checked American-style grid needs a dictionary of tens of thousands of words. Every entry is at least three letters and crosses at least one other.
The other daily puzzles
Section titled “The other daily puzzles”All three share one daily rhythm: the same puzzle for everyone, resetting at midnight US Eastern.
Credits
Section titled “Credits”Inspired by the daily mini crosswords of newspaper puzzle pages. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Mojang.