Other digital and tabletop word search games include A Way with Words, Boggle, Bookworm, Letterpress, Outworded, Puzzlage, Ruzzle, Wonderword, Wordament, WordSpot, Word Streak with Friends, and Word Winder. Word search puzzles have become very popular on the internet with Facebook games such as Letters of Gold. Undoubtedly one of these scattered copies eventually led somebody to sell the idea to a syndicator. One teacher sent them around the country to various friends in other schools.
Some teachers in the Norman schools asked for reprints to use in their classes. The puzzle was very popular locally and several more followed this original. The original page size is 8.5 by 5.5 inches. Selenby was a small want-ad digest distributed free at Safeway and other stores in the town. Gibat in the Selenby Digest on March 1, 1968, in Norman, Oklahoma, although the Spanish puzzle creator Pedro Ocón de Oro was publishing "Sopas de letras" (Spanish "Soup of Letters") before that date. The word search puzzle (also known as WordSeek, WordFind, WonderWord, etc.) was originally designed and published by Norman E. The puzzle might use every row, column, or diagonal-or just every other row, column, or diagonal. In some computer-generated puzzles, if the person solving the puzzle sees one word, all they have to do to find more is to look in adjacent rows, columns, or diagonals. Furthermore, the bigger the words and the more words, the easier they are to spot. The puzzles generated by a computer tend to put words in patterns. First, all the horizontal rows should be read both backwards and forwards, then the vertical, and so on. If a word list is not provided, a way to find words is to go row by row. Lastly, the strategy of looking for double letters in the word being searched for (if a word list is provided) proves helpful, because it is easier to spot two identical letters side-by-side than to search for two different letters. Since most word searches use capital letters, it is easiest to spot the letters that stand out from others. One can then continue this method until the entire word is found.Īnother strategy is to look for 'outstanding' letters within the word one is searching for (if a word list is provided). After finding the letter, one should look at the eight surrounding letters to see whether the next letter of the word is there.
That file you just saved and then create a puzzle.A common strategy for finding all the words is to go through the puzzle left to right (or right to left) and look for the first letter of the word (if a word list is provided). Save the puzzle with your browser's Save As. If you see a puzzle you like in the archives, but would like toĬhange the word list or font (for example to use the sign language font), There is another form with many more words,īut large puzzles will take a longer time to generate. Some people find this word list form too small, or want to have hidden To use for cutting and pasting letters that are hard to type. If you want help with international characters, you can call up an Some users list their puzzles for all to see. The puzzle that is generated will remain on this server forĪ copy of the generated puzzle, make sure you save a copy. "Printable PDF" buttons to get a clean page suitable for printing Once the puzzle is displayed, you can use the "Printable HTML" or When you are done, hit the "Make Puzzle" button to generate a word If you note any issues, please let me know. I have just changed over to https for a more secure browsing experience. These puzzles are popular with different groups of people, especially teachers and students. You can use this page to create your own word search puzzle with your own list of words.
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