But be careful that you’re not in a place where you can embarrass yourself! WHAT YOU LEARN FROM PLAYING WORD SEARCH People find that saying the word they’re looking for out loud helps stimulate the part of their brain that’s thinking about the puzzle and looking for words. You’re less likely to waste your time chasing false leads that way. If you decide to look for letter clusters while doing your word search puzzle, look for the last three or four letters of the word instead of the first couple. Many people have an easier time looking for letter clusters than looking for the letters in the order they’re written.

Look for the last letters of the search words. Once you identify the easy words on the board, the hard words will become easier to spot. A good strategy is to find as many easy words as possible quickly, and then use the rest of your time looking for the remaining one or two hard ones. If you’re having a hard time finding a specific word, skip it and look for another one instead. You’ll be surprised how often you’ll stumble upon one word when looking for another one. Once you’ve found the obvious words, look at the list and try keeping two or three words in your head. Look for multiple words at the same time. There’s no need to even bother looking at your list of words until you’ve circled all the obvious words first and find yourself in need of some help. Almost every word search puzzle will contain a handful of obvious words that’ll just pop out at you. Looking to make the puzzle even harder? Try Maniac Mode! WORD SEARCH TIPS & TRICKSĭon’t focus on the word list at first. Want to up the challenge? Try timing your word search or hiding your word list. Too easy? Set the game difficulty in the options menu to change the directions that the words are in. Click and drag over the letters to highlight the word and check it off the list.

All the words listed on the right of the game. Find them horizontally, vertically, diagonally, or backward, depending on the difficulty level you select. Search for hidden words in the letter grid.

Crossword search puzzles