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Puzzles and Games: Letter Grids

September 4, 2027

Here are the six trees we found: beech, elm, oak, larch, neem, may. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)

From The Children's Newspaper, 1961.

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#tree #letter grid #boggle

May 26, 2023

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From Lighted Pathway, 1979.

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#satan #word game #word search #word puzzle

April 2, 2020

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In honor of the Stay Home Zine Fest: this puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 13
• 8-letter words: 3

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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#word grid #boggle

October 28, 2019

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"The wizard represented himself as the fountainhead of all knowledge. He knew the secrets of the past, present, and future." From Magician's Magic by Paul Curry, 1965.

Note that the 9-letter grid forms a rather difficult Boggle-style game board. How many words can you find? Here are some clues:

1. To obtain by deceit (4 letters).

2. An alcohol molecule containing two hydroxyl groups (4 letters).

3. A temporary release (4 letters).

4. Having a strong, disagreeable smell (4 letters).

5. (Archaic) having obeyed; from Arabic, a servant or worshipper (4 letters).

6. Put to death (obsolete form) (4 letters).

7. About 2.2 pounds (4 letters).

8. To open a locked door by sliding a thin piece of plastic between the door edge and frame to force open a spring lock (4 letters).

Answers [highlight to view]: 1. bilk; 2. diol; 3. bail; 4. olid; 5. abid; 6. kild; 7. kilo; 8. loid. Three-letter words: aid, ail, bad, bid, bio, cid, dab, dib, ilk, jib, jol, kid, lib, lid, oik, oil, old.

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#vintage illustration #wizard #magician #vintage magic

November 22, 2017

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This puzzle grid, which reads "No upcoming notices or alerts," contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 50
• 8-letter words: 20
• 9-letter words: 6

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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July 7, 2017

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This letter grid for mirror-flashed code (from The Girl of Ghost Mountain by Joseph Allan Dunn, 1921) can serve as a Boggle puzzle.

We found several five-letter words relating to: an obstinate person; a collector of dirty water; a swelling protuberance; a portable illumination; another word for "cusk"; a second growth of hay in one season; a monetary unit replaced by the forint; and a plate for consecrated bread.

Here are all 18 words we think are contained within the grid (including archaic ones). Highlight the black to reveal the text: bigly, bigot, bilge, bilgy, bulge, bulgy, glims, gowks, newly, oaten, paten, pengo, rowen, torch, torsk, works, wrote, zorch

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January 23, 2015

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 14
• 8-letter words: 1

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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January 15, 2015

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? One of the 7-letter words sounds like the C-word.

• 7-letter words: 13
• 8-letter words: 3

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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June 26, 2014

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? The ten-letter word may take some time to unscramble.

• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 8
• 10-letter words: 1

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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June 23, 2014

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 9
• 8-letter words: 3

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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June 21, 2014

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? The 9-letter word is most mysterious.

• 7-letter words: 17
• 8-letter words: 6
• 9-letter words: 1

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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March 1, 2014

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This puzzle grid contains several big words, including one as blue as the sky. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 16
• 8-letter words: 4
• 9-letter words: 2

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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February 3, 2014

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Today's puzzle grid, an Emily Dickinson quotation, appears over a dear reader's bookcase.

There's an 8-letter word that means unconfident.
There's a 9-letter word that refers to plants with four petals.
There's a 7-letter word that refers to fig trees, and another that belongs in the kitchen.

• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 6
• 9-letter words: 1

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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September 7, 2013

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 7
• 8-letter words: 3

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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August 3, 2013

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 4

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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August 29, 2010

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 11
• 8-letter words: 4
• 9-letter words: 1

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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March 3, 2010

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 13
• 8-letter words: 4
• 9-letter words: 2

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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February 8, 2010

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 14
• 8-letter words: 6
• 9-letter words: 1

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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January 17, 2010

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 31
• 8-letter words: 11
• 9-letter words: 1

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

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January 7, 2010

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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 13
• 8-letter words: 2

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

Click to display solutions

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Attleboro Odlox writes:

I found "clonings" as my first word and that was enough of an achievement to earn me three hours of bad television. Or so I rationalized. If cloning is not there, don't tell me. I didn't click on the answers. As soon as I saw I-N-G-S I knew the God of the Grid wouldn't be so cruel as to give us that convenient coda without providing at least one word to pin it to.

Nada writes:

Are gabions the elemental particles of insubstantial talk?

Prof. Oddfellow responds:

Good call, Nada!

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