Make your own word search puzzle
This page allows you to create word search puzzles using your words. It has been used by many types of people, with teachers and students being groups that stand out.
Please enter a set of words. When you are done, hit the "Puzzle" button to generate a word search puzzle. Once the puzzle is displayed, you can use the "Printable HTML" or "Printable PDF" buttons to get a clean page suitable for printing with your web browser.The puzzle that is generated will remain on this server for about two months. If you want to ensure that you have a copy of the generated puzzle, make sure you save a copy.
If you have any comments or questions, feel free to leave a message with: wordsearch@armoredpenguin.com
When you generate your puzzle, you will have the opportunity to see an answer key as well as list the puzzle where others can see it. Please keep the listed puzzles to a "G" type rating so that people of any age can enjoy them. Also, only list puzzles of general use. Classmate names are not interesting to anyone outside of the class, while a vocabulary test might well be interesting to the general public.
You can see the currently listed puzzles.
I have taken some of those puzzles that people have listed, and put them into a Best Of... listing.
Enter a word list. If you want, you can call up an Alphabet chart to use for cutting and pasting letters that are hard to type. This chart will come up in a separate window.
Some people find this word list form too small, or want to have hidden words. There is another form with many more words, but large puzzles will take a long time to generate. Be patient.
Tip: To make puzzles harder, use the alternate input form, and create misspelled words. Use the checkbox next to these words so that they are not listed in the wordlist for the puzzle.
I originally wrote a word search generator long ago for a contest put on by a magazine called Micro Cornucopia. It is long since dead, and unfortunately nothing has risen to take its place. However, this program has lived on in a variety of forms.
Over the years, I've received many messages from students, teachers, and parents who have used the program for school work as well as a way to give a pleasant diversion from the normal grind.
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