Printable Puzzles Galore!

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★★★ We now have Sudoku Puzzles! Woo-hoo! ★★★

Are you looking for free word searches, crosswords, fill-ins, sudoku, and other puzzles? Well, you've come to the right place!

This page gives you access to over 7,200 fully-printable puzzles. We have puzzles in regular size, and LARGE PRINT too. Take your pick. And best of all, they are always free!

All of our printables were designed to be printer-friendly. As long as your computer can open PDF files and your printer is loaded with standard 8.5" × 11" paper, you are ready to start solving.

Note: click the [direct link] below the embedded PDF file if you have trouble printing. The file should then directly download and open on your device. You can print it from there.

Feeling lucky? Jump to a random printable puzzle or puzzle booklet

Pro Tip:

Save paper by setting your printer to print on both sides of the paper. We craft our printables assuming most users will do just that.

★★★ Word Search Puzzles ★★★

detective with magnifying glass eight-by-four grid of letters with WORD and SEARCH highlighted, with Kilroy looking downward

Scattered on this page you'll find 100 numbered booklets, with 15 themed booklets in the right margin. Each booklet has 24 word search puzzles with solutions, and each puzzle hides 20 words in a medium-sized 22×20 letter grid. That's a total of over 2,700 puzzles with 55,000+ words for you to solve – if you dare to print them all out. Here are the first five:

(booklets #6–100 scattered below)

If our main selection of booklets are not challenging enough, then try our extreme booklets. Each booklet has 12 word search puzzles with solutions, and each puzzle hides 48 words in a large 34×32 letter grid. So far we have 100 booklets – that's 1,200 puzzles with 57,000+ words – and there are more coming. Here are the first five:

(booklets #6–100 scattered below)

Play Online Word Search Puzzles!

Wanna solve a word search online? Check these puzzles out. They are best viewed and played on a large screen computer, like a laptop or a desktop. So far we have 32 themed puzzles, but more are coming:

Animals Universities Colors
State Capitals Best Picture Hit Songs
Big Cities Animal Homes Languages
NFL Teams Flowers
Repeats 1 Repeats 2 Repeats 3
Repeats 4 Repeats 5 Repeats 6
Repeats 7 Repeats 8 Repeats 9
Repeats 10 Repeats 11 Repeats 12
Repeats 13 Repeats 14 Repeats 15
Repeats 16 Repeats 17 Repeats 18
Repeats 19
Stocks 1 Stocks 2 Stocks 3 Stocks 4

Additionally, there are 100 LARGE PRINT booklets grouped together at the very bottom of this page. Each of these booklets has 10 full page puzzles, with 10 full page solutions. With fourteen 26pt font size words hidden in each of these 1,000 puzzles, there are 14,000 additional words for you to find. Here are the first five:

(booklets #6–80 at page bottom)

Don't like booklets? Then try our themed word search singlets. To date we have 550 themed puzzles across two difficulty levels. The medium puzzles hide 15 words, and the hard puzzles hide 24 words in denser grids. And, of course, these puzzles print out nicely too. Look for the 'Printer-friendly' or [direct link] beneath each puzzle if you have an issue with printing.

Examples of MEDIUM puzzles:

Examples of HARD puzzles:

In all, there are over 5,500 fully-printable word search puzzles with 137,000+ words for you to solve!

★★★ Crossword Puzzles ★★★

We also have crossword puzzles! Current count is 100 easy ones. Most have 13 × 13 grids, but some have larger 19 × 19 grids (these are labeled with an asterisk*).

Note: click the [direct link] below the embedded PDF file if you have trouble printing. The file should then directly download and open on your device. You can print it from there.

Here are the first five:

(puzzles #6–100 scattered below)

★★★ Fill-in Puzzles ★★★

We also just started making fill-in puzzles. We currently have 120 puzzles. Please note that the more challenging puzzles have an asterisk* next to them, while the largest, most challenging puzzles have two asterisks**.

Note: click the [direct link] below the embedded PDF file if you have trouble printing. The file should then directly download and open on your device. You can print it from there.

Here are the first five:

(puzzles #6–120 scattered below)

★★★ Sudoku Puzzles ★★★

illustration of sudoku puzzle

Exciting news: we have just expanded into sudoku puzzles! Just like our other puzzles, they are organized in small, fully-printable booklets. Each booklet has 5 puzzles in 5 levels of difficulty. You can choose from easy, medium, hard, expert, or diabolic. Or attempt all five if you so wish. We have 100 booklets (or 500 puzzles) so far.

Note: click the [direct link] below the embedded PDF file if you have trouble printing. The file should then directly download and open on your device. You can print it from there.

Here are the first five:

(booklets #6–100 scattered below)

★★★ Even Steven Puzzles ★★★

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And if you like crossword puzzles, here's a great warm-up game. It's called Even Steven and we have over 1,000 of these quick and fun puzzles for you to solve. The idea is to guess two words, which differ by a single letter, from two clues. The printable version has two pages with 25 puzzles and solutions. Forty booklets so far, and there are more to come. Look for the [direct link] beneath each file.

Here are the first five:

(booklets #6–40 scattered below)

We also have an interactive online version of Even Stevens puzzles. Over 100 pages with 10 puzzles per page. We invite you to take a look.

★★★ Published Word Search Books ★★★

If you are looking for quality puzzle books at prices that won't break your pocket book, you are in luck too. Whether you seek 1000+ puzzles in a single volume or pocket-sized travel companions, themed or un-themed puzzles, or unconventional word searches, we have them all. So we invite you to browse the thumbnails below. We are continuously adding to our suite of offerings.

By the way, all of our published books are printed on thick, non-bleed-through paper, in contrast to the newsprint puzzle books you find in most grocery store checkout aisles. They make perfect gifts for yourself, or for the puzzle lover in your life.

★ Biggest Collections ★

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As far as we know, there are no bigger word search books on this or any other planet!

The Biggest Word Search Book in the Universe: 1,328 Puzzles (Volume 1) by Charles Waterford

The Biggest Word Search Book in the Universe: 1,328 Puzzles (Volume 2) by Charles Waterford

The Biggest Word Search Book in the Universe: 1,328 Puzzles (Volume 3) by Charles Waterford

The Biggest Word Search Book in the Universe: 1,328 Puzzles (Volume 6) by Charles Waterford

Pro Tip:

Maribeth K. from Topeka, KS writes that she solved the "loose leaf mess" that happens when you drop printouts to the floor: print out 10 booklets at a time, double-sided. Then use a three-hole punch and arrange the 70 sheets of paper into a three-ring binder. In this way she makes a 140 page word search book with 240 puzzles which she confidently handles whenever she feels the urge to solve.

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1,328 puzzles with 27,000+ words

The Biggest Bible Word Search Book on Earth: Over 1,300 Verses & Puzzles (Volume 1) by Charles Waterford

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All verses from King James Bible

The WORLD'S BIGGEST Word Search Book: 1,072 Puzzles (Volume 3) by Charles Waterford

Up for a challenge?

Try the World's First Crossword Puzzle from 1913

The WORLD'S BIGGEST Word Search Book: 1,072 Puzzles (Volume 5) by Charles Waterford

Did you know?

The first documented word search was published in 1968. You can find it in the March 1st edition of the Selenby Digest. This aptly named "sell and buy" digest was a small, want ad newspaper distributed for free in grocery stores in Norman, Oklahoma. The puzzle was constructed by Norman E. Gibat and featured the cities and towns of his home state. A second puzzle using street names came out a week later. While the Digest was short-lived and Norman of Norman did not publish puzzles after that, area teachers immediately saw their value as a teaching aid and started using them in their classrooms. Word apparently spread and the rest, as they say, is history.