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★★★ We now have 1980's Movie puzzles! Woo-hoo! ★★★
Are you looking for free word search, crossword, fill-in, sudoku, maze, and other puzzles? Well, you've come to the right place!
Word Search Crossword Fill-in Sudoku Maze Other Puzzles
This massive page gives you access to over 16,000 fully-printable puzzles. We have puzzles in various shapes, sizes, and styles. 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.
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★★★ Word Search Puzzles ★★★
Overall, we have over 10,000 word search puzzles with 280,000 hidden words. These puzzles come in various categories:
Regular Extreme Dense Irregular Themed Bible Large Print Online
★ Regular Word Search ★
Each of these 100 booklets 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 2,400 puzzles with 48,000 words for you to solve – if you dare to print them all out.
➤ Biggest Word Search Book in the Universe
Word Search 1 Word Search 2 Word Search 3 Word Search 4 Word Search 5
Fun Facts:
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.
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★ Extreme Word Search ★
These 100 extreme booklets are more challenging than regular word searches. Each booklet has 12 word search puzzles with solutions, and each puzzle hides 48 words in a large 34×32 letter grid. That makes for 1,200 puzzles with over 57,000 words.
➤ The World's Biggest Word Search Book
Word Search 1x Word Search 2x Word Search 3x Word Search 4x Word Search 5x
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.
Word Search 6x Word Search 7x Word Search 8x Word Search 9x Word Search 10x
★ Super Dense Word Search ★
Do you like word searches with lots of words? Then check these puzzles out. We've taken our standard 22×20 letter grid and jam packed it with as many words as we could fit. In fact, our software occasionally crashed while we were making them, requiring us to make adjustments to the word list. We eventually settled on forty words per puzzle.
We then made a few calculations. Like how, on average, each word list accounts for 64% of all letters in the grid. That means 6 out of every 10 letters in the grid belong to a word to be found. We think that makes for a pretty dense puzzle, while still making it challenging.
Here are some statistics: this collection has 100 booklets. In each booklet there are 12 puzzles, and each puzzle has 40 words hidden in a 22×20 letter grid. That makes a total of 1,200 puzzles with 48,000 words.
➤ Our Super Dense Word Search Book Series
Super Dense 1 Super Dense 2 Super Dense 3 Super Dense 4 Super Dense 5
Did you know?
Our puzzles are published twice a week in two different U.S. newspapers. And yours can too!
If you are a newspaper editor and are interested in having our puzzles appear in your publication, we invite you to Contact Us at anytime for details. We also encourage subscribers to contact their daily or weekly newspapers to let them know about us.
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★ Irregular Word Search ★
For those of you looking for something a little different, we have created eight different types of irregular word searches. The setup is the same as regular word search puzzles. You are given a list of words and these words are hidden in a grid of letters. But instead of the words being found in straight lines, these words are hidden in crazy shapes.
➤ Our Irregular Word Search Book Collection
Exactly which shapes are we talking about? Numbered below you'll find the following word search shapes:
Squares Corners Rectangles Horseshoes Donuts Big Squares Two Bricks 4-Letter L's
Since these are irregular word searches you may not have seen before, we've included instructions on how to solve them. Each of these eight types have 10 booklets of 10 puzzles, or 800 puzzles with 16,000 words in total.
1. Word Search Squares
Instructions: All words in the following puzzles are found in the shape of a square. Since each word is a 4-letter word, its solution will be 2×2 in size. Words rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise. Letters follow each other up, down, left, or right, but never diagonally.
Letters may be used for more than one word. The solutions are formatted as the example above, with the first letter of each word highlighted.
➤ Word Search Squares
Squares 1 Squares 2 Squares 3 Squares 4 Squares 5
Squares 6 Squares 7 Squares 8 Squares 9 Squares 10
2. Word Search Corners
Instructions: All words in the following puzzles are found in the shape of a right angle, or a corner. Each corner solution has two arms of equal length. Since each word is a 5-letter word, each arm is three letters long, with the middle letter shared by both arms.
The first letter of a word always begins at the end of one arm, and proceeds horizontally or vertically for two additional letters. It then turns 90° up, down, left, or right for the final two letters. There are no diagonal moves.
Letters may be used for more than one word. The solutions are formatted as the example above, with the first letter of each word highlighted.
➤ Word Search Corners
Corners 1 Corners 2 Corners 3 Corners 4 Corners 5
Corners 6 Corners 7 Corners 8 Corners 9 Corners 10
3. Word Search Rectangles
Instructions: All words in the following puzzles are found in the shape of a rectangle. Since each word is a 6-letter word, its solution will be 2×3 in size.
Words begin anywhere and rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise. Or they begin in a corner and zigzag up, down, left and right (but never diagonally).
Letters may be used for more than one word. The solutions are formatted as the example above, with the first letter of each word highlighted.
➤ Word Search Rectangles
Rectangles 1 Rectangles 2 Rectangles 3 Rectangles 4 Rectangles 5
Rectangles 6 Rectangles 7 Rectangles 8 Rectangles 9 Rectangles 10
4. Word Search Horseshoes
Instructions: All words in the following puzzles are found in the shape of a horseshoe. Since each word is a 7-letter word, its solution will be 3×3 in size, minus the center and one side space. Words begin at the end of one arm, and then travel to the end of the other arm. There are no diagonal moves.
Letters may be used for more than one word. The solutions are formatted as the example above, with the first letter of each word highlighted.
➤ Word Search Horseshoes
Horseshoes 1 Horseshoes 2 Horseshoes 3 Horseshoes 4 Horseshoes 5
Horseshoes 6 Horseshoes 7 Horseshoes 8 Horseshoes 9 Horseshoes 10
5. Word Search Donuts
Instructions: All words in the following puzzles are found in the shape of a donut. Since each word is an 8-letter word, its solution will be 3×3 in size, minus the center space. Words rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise. There are no diagonal moves.
Letters may be used for more than one word. The solutions are formatted as the example above, with the first letter of each word highlighted.
➤ Word Search Donuts
Donuts 1 Donuts 2 Donuts 3 Donuts 4 Donuts 5
Donuts 6 Donuts 7 Donuts 8 Donuts 9 Donuts 10
6. Word Search Big Squares
Instructions: All words in the following puzzles are found in the shape of a square. Since each word is a 9-letter word, its solution will be 3×3 in size.
The first letter of a word always begins in a corner or in the center:
If a word begins in a corner, it proceeds vertically (up-down-up or down-up-down) or horizontally (right-left-right or left-right-left) to end up in the opposite corner, or else spirals inward to the center in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
If a word begins in the center, it spirals outward to a corner in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
The path of a word never crosses itself and never moves in a diagonal direction.
Letters may be used for more than one word. The solutions are formatted as the example above, with the first letter of each word highlighted.
➤ Word Search Big Squares
Big Squares 1 Big Squares 2 Big Squares 3 Big Squares 4 Big Squares 5
Big Squares 6 Big Squares 7 Big Squares 8 Big Squares 9 Big Squares 10
7. Word Search Two Bricks
Instructions: All words in the following puzzles are found in the shape of two staggered bricks. Since each word is a 4-letter word, each of the two bricks has two letters.
Words begin at the edge of one brick and then move up, down, left, or right until the shape is filled out. There are no diagonal moves.
Letters may be used for more than one word. The solutions are formatted as the example above, with the first letter of each word highlighted.
➤ Word Search Two Bricks
Two Bricks 1 Two Bricks 2 Two Bricks 3 Two Bricks 4 Two Bricks 5
Two Bricks 6 Two Bricks 7 Two Bricks 8 Two Bricks 9 Two Bricks 10
8. Word Search 4-letter L's
Instructions: All words in the following puzzles are found in the shape of the capital letter L. Since each word is a 4-letter word, the longer segment of the L has 3 letters, the shorter 2, with one letter shared by both segments.
Words begin at one end of the L, and then move up, down, left, or right until the shape is filled out. There are no diagonal moves.
Letters may be used for more than one word. The solutions are formatted as the example above, with the first letter of each word highlighted.
➤ Word Search 4-letter L's
Letter L's 1 Letter L's 2 Letter L's 3 Letter L's 4 Letter L's 5
Letter L's 6 Letter L's 7 Letter L's 8 Letter L's 9 Letter L's 10
★ Large Print Word Search ★
These 100 large print booklets each have 10 full page puzzles with 10 full page solutions. Each puzzle has 14 words hidden in a 16×14 letter grid. Both the words and the grid letters have a 26-point font size. In total there are 1,000 puzzles with 14,000 words.
➤ Our Large Print Word Search Book
Large Print 1 Large Print 2 Large Print 3 Large Print 4 Large Print 5
Large Print 6 Large Print 7 Large Print 8 Large Print 9 Large Print 10
★ Themed Word Search ★
New ➤ Special movie puzzles page
To date we have 550 themed puzzles across two difficulty levels. You can find these word searches on two separate pages. The medium level hides 15 words, and the hard level hides 24 words in a more dense grid. Check these pages out!
Examples of medium puzzles (275 more):
Chickens Sharks Earrings Bond Girls
Examples of hard puzzles (275 more):
Apples Tigers Bedroom Kitten Names
★ Themed Booklets ★
We also have booklets with an overall common theme. That means one theme for all 24 puzzles in the booklet. With 100 themed booklets, that makes 2,400 themed word searches for you to solve.
Booklets either have puzzles with 20 hidden words, 40 hidden words, or a mixture of both. Those in the latter two categories have an asterisk* after their file name. If you print them all out, you'll have 65,000 words to find.
➤ Our Collection of 6,000 Themed Word Searches
Boy Names Ned's Words Rings* U-Words Big Places
Did you know?
We recently published what we think is the largest collection of themed word search puzzles in the world. At least we have not seen any other publication that even comes close. We think this collection makes a great gift for the puzzle lover in your life.
By the way, you can print out the first twelve puzzles right here for free. The odd-one-out puzzles 'hidden' in this collection can also be found on this site.
Rhyming Words* Homophones 1* 7-Letter #1* Small 1* American vs. British 1*
★ Bible Word Search ★
This Bible word search collection was created using the King James Version. The collection contains 100 booklets. That's 1,200 puzzles and verses with over 24,000 searchable words. We hope you find it uplifting!
Special Instructions: Hidden in each grid are the words of the biblical verse appearing next to it – provided it is three letters or more. This includes the name of the biblical book. Multiple instances of a word mean there are multiple instances hidden in the medium-sized 20×22 letter grid.
Note that the verses were intentionally left unmarked in the production of these booklets. In this way, readers may first delight in the Written Word of God before undertaking their search.
Pro tip: Circle, underline, or highlight all words three letters or more before you begin each puzzle. This creates a readily identifiable 'list' of words to be found. Then cross them out as you find them to keep track of your progress.
➤ The Biggest Bible Word Search Book on Earth
Bible Verses 1 Bible Verses 2 Bible Verses 3 Bible Verses 4 Bible Verses 5
Bible Verses 6 Bible Verses 7 Bible Verses 8 Bible Verses 9 Bible Verses 10
★ Online Word Search ★
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 35 themed puzzles.
Animals Universities Colors Flowers Languages
Best Picture Hit Songs Big Cities Animal Homes NFL Teams
★★★ Crossword Puzzles ★★★
We also have crossword puzzles! Current count is 120 easy ones. Most have 13×13 grids, but some have larger 19×19 grids. Note that the larger crosswords are labeled with an asterisk*.
➤ Our Crossword Puzzle Book
Crossword 1 Crossword 2 Crossword 3 Crossword 4 Crossword 5
Here's a blast from the past.
Try the World's First Crossword Puzzle from 1913
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★★★ Fill-in Puzzles ★★★
We also have 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**.
➤ Our Fill-in Puzzle Book
Fill-in Puzzle 1 Fill-in Puzzle 2 Fill-in Puzzle 3 Fill-in Puzzle 4 Fill-in Puzzle 5
Fill-in Puzzle 6 Fill-in Puzzle 7 Fill-in Puzzle 8 Fill-in Puzzle 9 Fill-in Puzzle 10
★★★ Sudoku Puzzles ★★★
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.
How to play:
Fill in the blank cells with a number 1–9.
Each row must contain the numbers 1–9 exactly once each.
Each column must contain the numbers 1–9 exactly once each.
Each 3×3 box must contain the numbers 1–9 exactly once each.
(Each of the two diagonals can contain duplicate numbers.)
Sudoku Puzzles 1 Sudoku Puzzles 2 Sudoku Puzzles 3 Sudoku Puzzles 4 Sudoku Puzzles 5
Sudoku Puzzles 6 Sudoku Puzzles 7 Sudoku Puzzles 8 Sudoku Puzzles 9 Sudoku Puzzles 10
★★★ Other Puzzles ★★★
Besides word searches, crosswords, fill-ins, and sudoku puzzles, we have collections of lesser known, but equally fun, puzzles for your solving pleasure. These include thousands of full-page mazes to navigate through, and number blocks which put the mathematical part of your mind to work. There are also criss-cross puzzles where you fill grids with opposites, and odd-one-out puzzles where you have to guess which word does not belong. Finally, we crafted scrambled puns where you have to solve anagrams, and a little something we call even steven puzzles. Check out all six of these puzzle types below!
Scrambled Puns Criss-Cross Odd-One-Out Number Blocks Mazes Even Stevens
★★★ Number Blocks ★★★
Never heard of number block puzzles? Well, if you like sudoku, you just might like these puzzles too. Especially if you're interested in keeping your mind sharp. That's because you'll need to break out your addition skills in order to solve them. See the instructions below on how to play.
Booklets 1–150 contain the popular 3×3 and 4×4 puzzle sizes. The larger – and more challenging – puzzles will be found in booklets 151–190. There's also a variety of difficulty levels within each booklet. By the way, you can hide the solutions by folding along the vertical line on each page (which makes it easy to flip over when it comes time to cheat, haha). In total, there are over 800 puzzles in this collection. Good luck!
Instructions:
The missing numbers are integers between 1 and 5.
The numbers in each row add up to totals to the right.
The numbers in each column add up to totals at the bottom.
The diagonal lines also add up to totals in the corners.
Number Blocks 1 Number Blocks 2 Number Blocks 3 Number Blocks 4 Number Blocks 5
Number Blocks 6 Number Blocks 7 Number Blocks 8 Number Blocks 9 Number Blocks 10
★★★ Scrambled Puns ★★★
You may remember the Jumble® word game from the newspapers and TV guides of the past. If you do, our collection of original scrambled pun puzzles should look familiar. The only thing missing is the humerous illustration. (Hey, we're on a budget!)
If you have trouble remembering how to solve these types of puzzles, see the instructions below. As of right now, we have one hundred booklets of two puzzles each. That's a total of 200 scrambled puns for your solving pleasure. Click on a booklet and tell us what you think. We bet you'll like them.
Instructions:
Solve the anagrams in the top part of the puzzle.
Use the circled letters from the words in the top part
to complete the final word or phrase at the bottom.
Each circled letter is used just once.
Scrambled Puns 1 Scrambled Puns 2 Scrambled Puns 3 Scrambled Puns 4 Scrambled Puns 5
Scrambled Puns 6 Scrambled Puns 7 Scrambled Puns 8 Scrambled Puns 9 Scrambled Puns 10
★★★ Criss-Cross Puzzles ★★★
There are many different styles of Criss-Cross puzzles. Most are pretty similar to crosswords, where you write words into an interlocking grid based on clues. Except that a criss-cross grid is usually less dense and less complex.
All the clues in our criss-cross collection are antonyms. In other words, you need to write the word that means the opposite of the clue word. We have ten booklets of ten puzzles each, making a total of 100 puzzles of criss-cross opposites.
Criss-Cross 1 Criss-Cross 2 Criss-Cross 3 Criss-Cross 4 Criss-Cross 5
Criss-Cross 6 Criss-Cross 7 Criss-Cross 8 Criss-Cross 9 Criss-Cross 10
★★★ Mazes ★★★
Our collection of mazes is finally here! Each booklet has 10 full page mazes and solutions. Currently there are 150 booklets or 1,500 mazes you can print out and navigate at your leisure.
These mazes come in two formats – corner-to-corner and prison escape – with a variety of different path styles. Note that every two rows has a different format and path style. If you want a booklet with a mixture of formats and path styles, see the last eight rows or Mazes 111–50.
Mazes 1 Mazes 2 Mazes 3 Mazes 4 Mazes 5
Mazes 6 Mazes 7 Mazes 8 Mazes 9 Mazes 10
★★★ Odd-One-Out Puzzles ★★★
If you've never solved odd-one-out puzzles, no worries. They are pretty simple to learn. You're given four words, and you guess which word doesn't belong with the other three. For example, given the words BLUE, GREEN, HOUSE, and PURPLE, which word is the odd-one-out? Obviously, it's HOUSE because it is not a color. But some of these puzzles can be pretty tough to solve.
We've created thousands of odd-one-out puzzles as a 'hidden' bonus for our newest themed word search book collection. You can check them out for free on these pages:
Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5
★★★ Even Steven Puzzles ★★★
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.
Even Stevens 1 Even Stevens 2 Even Stevens 3 Even Stevens 4 Even Stevens 5
Even Stevens 6 Even Stevens 7 Even Stevens 8 Even Stevens 9 Even Stevens 10
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.
★★★ Guessing Games ★★★
Our newest addition to the page! These guessing games are not printable, but they are pretty fun. Play right from your device. And maybe learn a little something too!
Puns Colors Birds US Capitals US States Presidents Companies Tickers
