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Difficult Word SearchesThese word searches are intended to be very difficult to complete. They are made on large grids with more than 40 words of any size spelled in any direction; forward, backward, up, down, or diagonal. To view or print a difficult word search puzzle click on its title.
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These printable word searches will be sure to challenge even the most advanced puzzler. You’ll find three different levels of hard word searches below, each growing in difficulty based on the number of words you need to find.
There are the hard word searches with 30-39 hidden words, the very hard word searches with 40-49 words you’ll need to find, and the extremely hard word searches with 50 or more hidden words. I suggest starting with the first section and then moving on to the other puzzles after you feel confident that you can tackle them.
If these puzzles aren’t challenging enough for you, you can also consider making your own hard word search. Trade with a friend and see who can complete theirs the quickest.
Many other free word searches are available for just about every holiday and season as well as daily word searches, online puzzles, and word searches just for kids. Both adults and kids will love the challenge and fun these puzzles bring.
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Printable Hard Word Searches
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These word searches are considered hard because they have 30-39 hidden words to find. Can you find them all?
- Famous Artists: There are 30 names of famous artists hidden in this hard word search puzzle.
- Healthy Foods: You’ll need to find 31 hidden healthy food words in this word search puzzle.
- Famous Cars: This hard word search has 32 famous cars that need to be found.
- Arguments: A tough word search puzzle with 33 hidden words.
- Here Comes the Bride: A 33-word puzzle all about weddings.
- The Beach: There are 34 beach words in this word search puzzle.
- Music Artists: Find the names of 34 music artists.
- Busy Schedule: Can you find all 35 words in this word search printable?
- Movie Night: There are 36 movie titles hidden in this word search.
- Lots of Words: A generally hard word search with 38 non-related words.
- Famous American Football Players: Find 38 famous American football players in this puzzle.
- Dogs: Find 38 breeds of dogs in this hard word puzzle.
- Have Fun: A general word search with 38 words to find.
- Your Body: You’ll need to find 39 words to solve this science word search puzzle all about the body.
- United States of America: There are 39 hidden words in this hard word search over the USA.
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Printable Very Hard Word Searches
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40-49 words that you’ll need to find.
- World Capitals: This is a very hard word search puzzle with 40 world capitals to find.
- The Great Lakes Basin: Find 40 things you might discover in the Great Lakes basin.
- Baseball Players: Find 42 names of famous baseball players in this word search.
- Health Issues: Find 42 health issues in this very hard word search puzzle printable.
- Les Miserables: Here’s a 42 word hidden word search puzzle that’s all about everyone’s favorite musical.
- The Great Lakes: There are 45 hidden words in this word search puzzle.
- Horse Breeds: 46 names of horse breeds are hidden in this difficult word search puzzle.
- Pearl Harbor: Print out this very hard word search puzzle and find all 48 words.
- What’s the Point: Here’s a fun word search printable where you’ll need to find 48 words or phrases that all have points associated with them.
- Hilarious Movies: If you like funny movies, you’re going to love this word search! There are 48 titles of some of the best comedies out there all hidden within this tough word search puzzle.
- Relationships: This printable word search puzzle has 49 words hiding in it.
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Printable Extremely Hard Word Searches
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Watch out for these extremely hard word search puzzles with 50 or more hidden words. Pick one with unfamiliar words you to increase the difficulty and make it your own personal hardest word search.
- Strange Words: Can you find all 50 strange words in this word search puzzle?
- European Countries: Find the 50 countries in Europe in this extremely hard word search puzzle.
- Fifty States: You’ll need to find all 50 states to complete this word search puzzle.
- Fifty State Capitals: Another extremely hard word search puzzle where you’ll need to find 50 state capitals.
- Camping: You’ll have to find 50 camping words in this puzzle.
- Popular Girls Names: Find 50 of the most popular names for girls.
- Popular Boys Names: There are 50 names of boys in this word search.
- Harry Potter Word Search: Find 50 Harry Potter-related words to solve this word search.
- Our Family: There are 50 family words to find in this word search printable.
- Self Help: You’ll need to find 50 words to solve this puzzle.
- Gardening: There are 50 hidden words that all have to do with gardening in this hard word search printable. Make it more of a challenge by finding the Lady Bird Johnson quote with the remaining letters.
- Flowers of the 50 States: Can you find the name of each state flower? There are 50 to find!
- Golden Age of Hollywood: Find 50 actors and actresses’ names in this difficult word search puzzle.
- Box Office Hits: Relive your favorite movies with this free hard word search puzzle that asks you to find 50 box office hits.
- Bio-mechanics: There are 50 bio-mechanics words to find in this very difficult word search puzzle.
- ’80’s Cartoons: This is an extra difficult puzzle because the titles of the ’80’s cartoons are so long. Good luck finding all 50 of them!
- Accounting: Find 55 accounting terms in what’s one of the more difficult word search puzzles. If you enjoy this puzzle you may also enjoy free math word puzzles.
- Deserts of the World: There are 60 deserts hidden within this tough word search puzzle. The remaining letters spell out a secret message.
- Around the House: There are an unbelievable 100 words to find in this extra-tough word search puzzle. Can you find all the words that you can find around the house?
- Harry Potter: In this hard word search printable, you’ll need to find a whopping 180 words that all have to do with the Harry Potter universe.
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Themed Word Search Puzzles
Difficulty level: hard
Here are 275 word search puzzles organized into fun categories. Everything from Arcade Games to Zombies, Fabrics to Junk Food. Hunt around, you might find something of interest.
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The difficulty level of these puzzles is hard: there are 15 words hidden in 22 × 20 letter grids, with 9 additional unlisted words which may, or may not, be related to the puzzle’s theme. These unlisted words are provided with the puzzle’s solution.
Each puzzle (and its solution) is formated to print out nicely on standard 8.5″ × 11″ paper. Click the [direct link] below the embedded PDF file if you have trouble printing. The puzzle should then directly download and open on your device. You can print it from there.
By the way, we add new puzzles to this page sporadically. So if you like them, be sure to come back.
We also have themed word search puzzles of medium difficulty. As well as puzzles you can solve online.
Did you know?
Historically, there are two men who compete for the title of inventor of the word search puzzle. One man, a Spaniard named Pedro Ocón de Oro, is said to have published his Sopa de Letras (or Soup of letters) sometime in the 1960s. While this claim is not completely verifiable, we do know for certain that Norman E. Gibat first published a word search in the Selenby Digest on March 1, 1968 in Norman, Oklahoma. This makes the word search puzzle just over 60 years old, considerly younger than the equally popular crossword puzzle, which has been around for well over 100 years.
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Instructions
This challenging word search puzzle will help you to practise spelling words that English learners often make mistakes with. Can you find the twenty words hidden in this word search puzzle?
Click on the first and last letter of each word as you find them. The words go across from left to right and down from top to bottom. Tap a question mark to show any words you can’t find.
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Use a question mark to show a word if you get stuck.
This game works best in portrait view on some mobile devices.
Challenge elementary aged students with this difficult back to school word search.
The puzzle is free to download and print.
The word search is most suited for elementary kids in grades 3 to 6 who can handle a tougher level of difficulty.
If you prefer a different level, check out these back to school word searches for kids 4th grade and younger, or this 5th grade or 6th grade puzzle.
A word search for kids is a great way to work on spelling right off the back, but in a fun, low key way. While they are hunting for each word, they will be focusing on the individual letters that make up a word.
Back to School Words
This hard level word search has 35 hidden words for kids to find and circle. The words can be found in every possible direction: forwards, backwards, upside down – horizontally, vertically and diagonally.
There are school words like:
- school, teacher, students, learn, subjects, grades, homework, recess, elementary
School subjects:
- Art, Drama, English, Geography, Health, History, Language Arts, Math, Music, Physical Education, Social Studies, Spelling, Science
Other things kids learn in school:
- alphabet, numbers, reading, writing
School supplies:
- backpack, books, crayons, pencil, scissors
Things you might see at school:
- classroom, desk, friends, library
Free Printable Word Search
The challenging back to school word search puzzle can be downloaded free below. The pdf comes with an answer sheet.
More Back to School Printables
Here are some more free printable back to school word puzzles:
- back to school word searches for grades 2, 3 & 4
- 5th grade back to school word search
- 6th grade back to school word search
- back to school crossword puzzles for 2nd, 3rd & 4th grade
- back to school word scrambles
- back to school fill in puzzles
Answer Key
Here is the answer key for this back to school word search:
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Success starts with a sharper mind! Pattern recognition is essential for intelligence. Increase your IQ for happiness, satisfaction & success in life! Prevent mental decline with daily puzzle solving! Rejuvenate your brain! #1 Best Seller in difficult Word Search Puzzles. Increase your brain’s effective IQ with daily Word Search puzzle solving. Your IQ (Intelligence Quotient) is considered the leading determinant of your financial and personal success. Puzzle-solving cuts Alzheimer’s risk — according to the latest scientific research!This book contains three hundred word search puzzles, with two puzzles on each page. The method for solving each puzzle should be familiar to you if you have worked word search puzzles before. However, the format is unique. Each puzzle has nineteen words listed in a vertical column. The word search puzzle is next to the list of words in a box of letter squares eighteen letters by eighteen letters. The solutions can be found vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, either forward or in reverse order.
How to Solve Word Search Puzzles
In order to achieve success at any task, one needs to know the best way to accomplish the goal of that task. With word search puzzle solving, the goal, of course, is to solve the puzzle. To do so, there are a number of methods one can use. They are as follows:•Take a Quick LookGlance at the puzzle and mark the ones you see immediately first. •Develop a StrategyAs you work your word search puzzle, a strategy will help you to work faster and more efficiently1)Check the beginning letters.One successful strategy is to look for the beginning letter of the word for which you are searching. Then look at the box immediately to the left and right, above and below, and in both diagonal directions for the remaining letters. At this point, you should see the complete word.2)Work each row in one direction. For example, work all the rows across first. Then choose another direction, maybe backward across. Continue until the puzzle is completed.3)Work the list.Some word search puzzle solvers simply work down the list, looking for each word. Of course, you want to go ahead and mark any other words you see.•Work in sections.Whichever method of solution you choose, work your word search puzzle in sections. You don’t want to repeatedly do the same area of your puzzle.•Take a break.If you get stuck, stop and come back to the puzzle later.•Work cooperatively.You can work a puzzle as a cooperative effort. Working with someone else can be fun and make puzzle solving easier.•Relax. Don’t become frustrated. Each consecutive puzzle should get easier. Go with the flow.•Have fun!Puzzle-solving is supposed to be an enjoyable activity. Remember to make it one.What Are the Benefits of Word Search Puzzles?Working word search puzzles provides many benefits for our minds.•As mentioned previously, we can actually increase our effective IQ.•Also, word search puzzles provide our minds with exercise for stimulation and maintenance.•In addition, puzzles are good for your mind’s cognitive (thinking and memory) development. •These puzzles provide great opportunity to improve the brain’s overall health and longevity; there is less memory loss at an advanced age, as well as the delayed onset and reduced risk of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.•Scientific studies have found that our brains actually reorganize in response to new challenges; a word search puzzle provides such a challenge.“THE IMPACT OF ORDINARY ACTIVITIES LIKE LISTENING TO THE RADIO, READING NEWSPAPERS, PLAYING PUZZLE GAMES, AND VISITING MUSEUMS…AFTER 4 YEARS, THE RISK OF DEVELOPING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE WAS 47 PERCENT LOWER, ON AVERAGE, FOR THOSE WHO DID THE ACTIVITIES MOST OFTEN THAN FOR THOSE WHO DID THEM LEAST FREQUENTLY.” – NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING.
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