Word Search
Hunt down the hidden words in the grid and crack the secret word.
Twenty-five themes, from hockey to the sugar shack: find every word hidden in a grid generated on the fly, then guess the secret word made from the leftover letters.
- Players
- 1 player
- Length
- 8 min
- Solo
15 days of full access, no account · No download
How to play
Goal
Find every word of the list in the grid. They can be written in a straight line in different directions depending on the level, and cross each other by sharing letters.
Controls
- Drag from the first to the last letter of a word to highlight it.
- Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- On the keyboard: arrows to move the cursor, Enter or Space on the first then on the last letter, Esc to cancel.
The secret word
Once every word is found, the leftover letters, read from left to right and from top to bottom, spell a word linked to the theme. Guess it before the end of the grid to earn the secret word bonus.
Levels
- Easy: 9 × 9, horizontal and vertical.
- Medium: 10 × 10, with diagonals.
- Hard: 11 × 11, six directions, backward words.
- Expert: 12 × 12, eight directions and decoys.
- Diabolical: 13 × 13, eight directions, overlaps and many decoys (fragments of theme words that are not to be found).
About the generator
Each grid is created on the fly: the theme words are placed so as to favour crossings, decoys are added at the higher levels, the secret word occupies exactly the leftover squares, and the generator checks that each word of the list appears only once in the grid.
Difficulty levels
- Easy9 × 9 grid: words horizontally and vertically.
- Medium10 × 10 grid: downward diagonals added.
- Hard11 × 11 grid: six directions, including backward words.
- Expert12 × 12 grid: eight directions and a few decoys.
- Diabolical13 × 13 grid: eight directions, overlapping words and plenty of decoys.
