Word Search: Word Puzzle

1000 word search puzzles in 20 themes, with big clear letters on warm paper,
and every one plays offline. Drag from the first letter of a word to its last
and it locks in, in its own colour. Find them all and the level is done.

THE GRID IS NEVER WRONG

The worst moment in a word search is finding a word, tracing it, and being told
no, because the filler happened to spell it somewhere you did not expect. All
1000 grids were re-read by a separate solver scanning all eight directions,
checking each word appears EXACTLY ONCE. If you can read it, it counts.

EXTRA WORDS COUNT TOO

The filler leans on the answers' own letters, so real words turn up that
nobody put there. Find one and it pays. About eighteen a board, and no
list tells you what they are.

DRAG IT EITHER WAY

Words run in all eight directions, and you can trace one from either end.

TWENTY THEMES, 1000 LEVELS

Animals, Food, Nature, Home, Travel, Sports, Kitchen, Clothing, Weather, Farm,
Ocean, Music, School, Camping, The Body, Countries, Art, Space, Science, Jobs.
Fifty levels each.

A theme is a subject, not a difficulty setting. Each grows across its fifty
levels, from a 7x7 with five words to a 12x12 with fourteen, so a theme you like
gets harder rather than running out.

What gets harder is the DIRECTIONS. Early on, words read left to right and
downwards, a habit you already have. Then diagonals. Then backwards and
upwards, where "scan for the first letter" stops working.

Themes open eight levels at a time, counted anywhere, so finding one subject
dull never blocks you.

A PUZZLE OF THE DAY, AND A RUN TO KEEP

One board a day, the same for everybody, chosen by the date. Solve it and your
streak goes up. Miss a day and you can put the run back, but you still have to
play today's puzzle.

And TIME ATTACK, the one part of this game with a clock: two minutes to start,
more for every word you find, harder boards as you go, and your best run is the
only score kept.

BUILT TO BE READ FOR AN HOUR

• No cell borders. The genre's usual ruled boxes put eleven vertical lines
between your eye and a word. Here the letters sit on warm paper and the only
lines are the words you have found.
• Every word has its own SHAPE as well as its colour: circle, ring, square,
frame, and three triangles. Fourteen words is more than colour alone can
carry, and for a colour-blind player it is not enough.
• The word list is always on screen and never scrolls.

ZEN MODE, AND NO WAY TO LOSE A LEVEL

One switch removes the counter and the ring and leaves the grid and the list.
Outside Time attack nothing is timed at all. A wrong drag does nothing but
retract, and putting the phone down mid-level leaves it exactly where you left
it.

NO NONSENSE

• Levels, dailies, time-attack boards and extra words pay coins, and coins buy
twelve board looks. They never buy help.
• Help is optional and costs ink: show a word, light first letters, or add
time. Ink is free from the daily gift and every new rank, some help is one
short advert, and the shop sells ink and boosters if you want more.
• Restart is always free.
• A short advert may play when you leave a finished level, never mid-level and
never in your first few. A small banner may sit under the help buttons, never
over the grid. One purchase removes both. Every other advert is one you
chose; its button says AD first.
• No level or theme is locked behind a paywall. Themes open by playing.
• No account, no sign-up, no email address.
• All 1000 puzzles are inside the app, so it plays with no signal.
• Progress is saved on your device, and backed up to your Google account only
if you use Google Play Games. The app sends anonymous gameplay counts so we
can tell whether it is being played; they never include your name, your
advertising ID or your location.

Word search, word find, word seek, letter grid puzzle -- whatever you call it,
this is the one that never tells you the word you just found is wrong.

Free. Start with Animals.