Ballistic

Word puzzles are both fun and educational, but they can get very complex. If you’re having a bit of trouble solving one, or you want to create your own, a specialized utility can save you a lot of effort.

Ballistic is a small, portable application created to help users filter word lists. It allows you to use wildcards to find specific words, and it is also capable of finding anagrams and generating permutations of a certain word.

Whether you need to find the missing letters from a word, or you need to create an anagram, this program can help you out. Just write the letters you already know, with asterisks to mark the ones you don’t. The application will try to find words that contain those missing letters.

Ballistic can also be helpful if you are trying to find an anagram of a certain word or use a specific set of letters to form one or more words. You just need to type them in the Finder field, check the Find Anagrams box and define the length of the anagram.

In addition to providing solutions, the program can also help you generate new puzzles. You can either use simple anagrams or have the application generate permutations, which will then be used to recreate the original words.

Ballistic comes bundled with quite a few word lists, and you can switch between them from the File menu. If you aren’t happy with what is available, however, you can add your own list by pasting them into the “lists\My Lists” folder in the program’s directory.

Overall, Ballistic is a versatile utility for solving and generating multiple types of word puzzles. It is easy to use and comes equipped with a number of word lists, while also allowing you to add your own.