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Word Find and Word Search puzzles.
Word find puzzles, sometimes called word search puzzles, are also perfect for improving your vocabulary. Most word find games have difficulty levels ranging from easy to hard.
Word find puzzles have letters filling a square or rectangular puzzle box, with some of the letters in the square or rectangle forming words that are provided to you in a word list for that puzzle.
To solve a word find game you match a word in the word list to the letters in the puzzle box and circle only the found word. You then cross out the found word in the word list.
One easy way to solve a word find is to start looking for words beginning on the left of the puzzle and following the letters to the right. Another is to look for groups of identical letters, like "tt" in letters, "oo" in looking, "zz" in puzzle.
There are different levels of difficulty in most word finds, such as easy, medium or hard. Easy word finds have the words going Across or Down like a crossword puzzle. Medium difficulty word finds may have words going Across, Down, forward angle down, forward angle up, backward across, backward down, backward angle up, or backward angle down. Hard word finds will have all possible combinations of word directions.
Level of difficulty also depends upon how many garbage letters surround the actual word in a grid and whether those garbage letters form partial words or not.
In many medium or hard puzzles the words may overlay other words or intersect on the first or last letter of a word.
Some word finds will use a special sentence or phrase as fill-in letters surround the words in a puzzle grid. The special sentence or phrase replaces the random letters or random partial words that usually act as filler in standard word finds. This style of word find is often called a Hidden Phrase, Secret Message, or simply Hidden Message.
Example of an easy word find, with words going Across and Down only.
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