My daughter had a little phase of being into Word Searches. I found it to be a cool dad moment when I was like “I’ll make you a tool to make them!” . That’s what she was into. She liked doing them OK, but she really liked the idea of making them. So my tool starts with a blank grid where you can type in your words, then fill in the blanks with random letters, then print it.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this type of simple game with simple well-defined interactions is rife for front-end developer experimentation.

Interestingly, I’ve found most takes on HTML/CSS/JavaScript Word Searches to be more about the experience of solving them, which is just as interesting!…