Ten words are hidden in the grid. Find them all by dragging from a word's first letter to its last.
Words run in any straight line, so across, down, diagonally, forwards or backwards. There is no clock and nothing to lose.
Read the list beside the grid. Those ten words are all hidden in the letters, and everything else is filler.
When you spot one, drag from its first letter to its last. Let go and the word lights up on the grid and gets struck off the list.
A drag has to be a straight line. Across, down and both diagonals all count, and any of them can run backwards.
The counter above the grid shows how many you have left. Find all ten and the puzzle is done, and your progress is kept if you leave and come back.
All eight. Left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top, and all four diagonals.
Yes. Words cross, and a letter you have already used for one word can belong to another one as well.
They are filler, drawn mostly from the letters in the hidden words so that they blend in rather than standing out as noise.
Yes. The calendar button under the grid opens the previous puzzles, and every puzzle has a number you can share with someone else.
Word Search is the puzzle almost everyone has done at some point, and it holds up because it asks for attention rather than cleverness. There is nothing to work out, only something to notice.
The quickest way through a grid is to hunt the rare letters first. A J, a Q, an X or a Z narrows a word down to a handful of places, and the rest of it is sitting right next to them.
A new puzzle goes up every day, built from the date, so everyone playing that day gets the same ten words in the same grid.