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We built WordsDesk: free word searches to play online or print, plus a maker for your own words
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We built WordsDesk: free word searches to play online or print, plus a maker for your own words

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Posted on Nov 11

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Word searches are one of those puzzles everybody knows. Teachers print them for a quiet ten minutes, parents keep a few for long trips, and plenty of adults do one with their morning coffee. Most sites that offer them give you a fixed sheet, a pile of ads, and the same handful of words every time.

So we built WordsDesk , a free word search site where each puzzle is fresh, playable in the browser and printable on one clean page.

What the site does

A puzzle of the day on the homepage . It rotates through the themes and the three levels by date. Drag across a word (or type it) and it turns dark in the grid and crosses off the list. A timer runs, and when you finish you see your time and your best time for that theme and level.

New puzzle, no repeats. Every theme and level page has a New puzzle button. It picks fresh words from that theme's list and does not reuse a word you've already had on that page until the whole list is used up.

Three levels.…

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