Word search maker
Make your own word search on any topic, in about a minute. Give it a title and between 10 and 30 words, and you get a puzzle that plays in the browser, prints as a free PDF with its solution, and has its own link you can send to anyone.
Your recent puzzles
Made in this browser. They live here only, so keep the secret edit links if you clear your history.
The rules, in plain language
- Between 10 and 30 words. Fewer than 10 makes a puzzle that is not worth sharing.
- Words can be 3 to 14 letters long.
- Letters only. Spaces and dashes are allowed but are removed from the grid, so NEW YORK hides as NEWYORK.
- Accents come off the grid the way word searches work, but the letter N with a tilde stays: ARANA hides with its own letter.
- Stick to one theme. A puzzle about one topic is far more fun to solve than a random list.
- Your words hide across, down and diagonally, forwards and backwards. The grid grows with your list.
What happens when you submit
We build the grid, render a printable PDF and a separate solution sheet, and give your puzzle its own permanent link. Nothing is published to our galleries and search engines are asked not to index it: it is yours to share, not ours to promote.