Cruzadinha.com.br - Crosswords site
I made a Crosswords website with daily and weekly games.
September in Crosswords has been my most prolific personal project, spawning the most side projects at the time.
As the month was coming to its end, I felt a need to share my games with the public. So I decided to build a website to host my crossword games. During prototyping and development I figured I wanted to have daily games. So I am building a year long back log of games for the site. Don't know how long will it take. This goal with this backlog is to have enough games so I wouldn't need to work on the site for some weeks or months.
I made the site's layout on nicepage.com with the intention of fixing its style and layout issues manually, on my computer. Unfortunately, I found the code generated to be too confuse and hard to maintain.
Building the website myself seemed to be the best option. It felt right to host the September in Crosswords blog within this new site, so I would need a blog engine. The answer I found was Hugo - a static site generator.
I have built websites with Hugo before and this time the development happened without major issues.
The website's theme used Lugo - Luke Smith's Hugo Theme - as its foundation. Development was assisted by AI sparringly.
I host daily games of medium (10x15) and mini (5x5) crosswords, daily wordsearch and KenKen games and sunday crosswords (15x15).
September 2025