Published Puzzle Books

Besides the 16,000+ free printable puzzles available on our site, we have published puzzle books at great prices. Whether you seek thousands of puzzles in a single volume or pocket-sized travel companions, themed or un-themed puzzles, or unconventional word searches, crosswords, fill-ins, or rules for word games, we have them all. So browse the thumbnails below. We're sure you'll find something you like and at a price you'll love!

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.

★ ★ ★ New Book Series ★ ★ ★

Our newest book series Super Dense Word Search: 150 Jam-Packed Puzzles (Volumes 1–4) is now available!

Super Dense Word Search: 150 Jam-Packed Puzzles (Volume 1)

Super Dense Word Search: 150 Jam-Packed Puzzles (Volume 2)

Super Dense Word Search: 150 Jam-Packed Puzzles (Volume 3)

Super Dense Word Search: 150 Jam-Packed Puzzles (Volume 4)

★ ★ ★ New Book ★ ★ ★

Our book British And American Word Search: Showdown Edition is now available!

British And American Word Search: Showdown Edition by Charles Waterford

★ ★ ★ Our Proudest Book Series ★ ★ ★

The World's Largest Collection Of Themed Word Search Puzzles is published across five books. Each book has:

1,200 puzzles with 24,000 words
20 words in each 20x22 grid
1 unlisted word in each puzzle
300 ‘hidden’ bonus puzzles
solutions in easy-to-read format

The World's Largest Collection Of Themed Word Search Puzzles (Book 1 of 5) by Charles Waterford

The World's Largest Collection Of Themed Word Search Puzzles (Book 2 of 5) by Charles Waterford

The World's Largest Collection Of Themed Word Search Puzzles (Book 3 of 5) by Charles Waterford

In all, the complete collection boasts a total of 6,000 puzzles with 120,000 words — enough to keep even the most serious word searcher busy for quite a while.

The World's Largest Collection Of Themed Word Search Puzzles (Book 4 of 5) by Charles Waterford

The World's Largest Collection Of Themed Word Search Puzzles (Book 5 of 5) by Charles Waterford

Best of all, every puzzle is organized by a fun theme. These themes include food, animals, hobbies, sports, popular culture, and plenty of wordplay. But there is so much more. Crack open the book and take a look!

Crosswords, Fill-ins & Word Game Books

This fast 'n easy crossword book is sure to please novice and expert alike. Same goes for this fill-in book, which offers its own unique puzzle challenge. And learning a fun new word game for your next get-together has never been easier with this one-of-a-kind rule book.

A Hundred Fast ‘n’ Easy Crosswords (Volume 1) by Charles Waterford

A Hundred Fill-In Puzzles (Volume 1) by Charles Waterford

250 HOMEMADE WORD GAMES: RULES, STRATEGIES, EXAMPLES by Charles Waterford

Word Search Puzzles

★ Biggest Word Search Books ★

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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

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.