Word Search Game
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How to Play Word Search
A word search game is a puzzle made up of letters placed in a grid containing a number of hidden words running in various directions. Word search games are great brain excercises, which help boost and maintain brain function.
This is a classic word search puzzle offering customization options, playable on both desktop and mobile devices for free. To play with a mouse, press down the mouse button on the first or last letter of a word and move the mouse to the other end of the word, as if you were drawing a line using your mouse.
On touch enabled devices, e.g mobile devices, just use your finger or pen to draw a line from the first letter to the last letter of the word, or from the last letter to the first letter. (Touch enabled: {{ isTouchDevice }})
Word Search Tips
- Scan for uncommon letters first — letters like Q, X, Z and J are rare, so spotting one on the board quickly narrows down where a word containing it might start.
- Check both directions. Words can read forwards or backwards, so if you find a matching first letter, look both ways along that row, column or diagonal.
- Scan systematically — go row by row, then column by column, then diagonal by diagonal, rather than jumping around the grid at random.
- Cross words off as you find them so you don't waste time re-scanning for words you've already located.