How to play Mickey's Crossword Puzzle Maker on Mac

Game summary

This language skills educational game allows you to create original crossword puzzles using word clues or 185 illustrations which can be used to as picture clues. After entering the clues you can randomly generate puzzles that you can solve yourself or play against Mickey (hard), Donald (medium) or Goofy (easy). The game features bonus and super bonus points, more than 20 musical tunes and a fireworks display for the winner. You can also print your creations using Disney backgrounds or borders, including such characters as Dumbo, Peter Pan, Snow White and many more. Picture menu bars guides you through both the game and the tools for creating and printing out puzzles.
First released: Dec 1991

Play Mickey's Crossword Puzzle Maker on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Mickey's Crossword Puzzle Maker on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Mickey's Crossword Puzzle Maker installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Mickey's Crossword Puzzle Maker like you would on any PC.
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