Improve the mood you‘re in
Sitting down to tackle a word search and that feeling that comes with successfully finding a word has some seriously good effects on your mood. It stimulates the brains ‘reward molecule’, making you feel motivated and happy.
Also question is, how do you make a hard word search?
How to Make Your Own Word Search Puzzle
- Step 1: Pick a Theme. You can choose anything you like, and take inspiration from anywhere.
- Step 2: Decide on Your Grid Size and Number of Hidden Words.
- Step 3: Starting Your Grid.
- Step 4: Filling in the Grid, and Determining the Difficulty Level.
Also, what does it mean when you are good at word searches?
Improve the mood you‘re in
Sitting down to tackle a word search and that feeling that comes with successfully finding a word has some seriously good effects on your mood. It stimulates the brains ‘reward molecule’, making you feel motivated and happy.
What is the best word search app?
10 best word games, word puzzle, and word search games for Android!
- Bonza Word Puzzle.
- Crossword Puzzle Free.
- Jumbline 2.
- Letterpress.
- Typeshift.
Do word searches help your brain?
Studies have shown that word search and other puzzles can help improve memory, focus, vocabulary, and overall mental acuity.
Write Your Answer
Word searches are a great way to have a little fun while exercising your brain.
If you like word searches and love a good challenge, this particular word search is deemed one of the hardest to crack.
While it may seem simple at first, the tricky part is that there are only three letters repeated throughout the entire word search, making your eyes start to see double and causing all sorts of confusion.
That is, unless you get lucky and quickly come across that hidden “dog.”
The answer to this tricky word search is posted on the next page, but we want you to try it out for yourself first before peeking at the answer.
Some say going through each individual letter until you finally come across the hidden “dog” really works.
And before you think this may be a trick, the two occurrences of the word “dog” written out above and below the puzzle don’t count.
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Take a crack at it, and be honest when you tell us how long it took you to find it. We can assure you, there is a hidden “dog” within the word search, so keep at it!
When you’re ready for the answer, keep reading.
Is this what you found? Did it take you as long as it took us?
Think you’ve got the hang of this? Ready to try another?
Find The Cat
Here’s tricky puzzle for you! Can you spot the cat?
Can you spot the cat? pic.twitter.com/MCLcmL4Zie
— Gergely Dudás – Dudolf (@thedudolf) December 20, 2015
Stumped? Click here to find the cat.
Find The Queen
Here’s another good one:
Can you find the Queen hidden among all the corgis?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEa3-83SrNz/
Other Puzzles To Test Your Brain
Want more puzzles? Here is a puzzle with squares.
Coffer illusion. There are 16 circles in this picture.https://t.co/PZ3s9t7gBD pic.twitter.com/TnuUoxe6dT
— rebecca roache (@rebecca_roache) August 5, 2017
There is also a puzzle here where you will need to find the circles. So many shapes!
And one with snowmen. Can you find the panda?
Wheel of Fortune Puzzle Stumps Internet
And here’s one that made the rounds on the internet from Wheel of Fortune earlier this year.
From its humble beginnings as a daytime show in the 1970s to its cult following today, Wheel of Fortune has earned the nickname “America’s Game.”
A podcast host who goes by the Twitter handle “Twitter’s Good Boy” shared a screenshot of the unfortunate puzzle, which has had thousands of likes, retweets and guesses.
https://twitter.com/twitersgoodboy/status/862086751480885248
Along with “Suck it dork,” incorrect answers ran the gamut from this…
DUCK AT WORK
— MrMunk00 (@MrMunk00) May 9, 2017
… to this…
https://twitter.com/TheOrchidShow/status/862237105405218816
… to this, as well as a few guesses not suitable for all audiences.
PICK AT PORK
— POBODY’S NERFECT in Canada (@davegrapes) May 10, 2017
The actual correct answer was “Back at work,” which the contestant guessed in under one minute.
[h/t: Little Things]
Table of Contents
- What is the hardest word puzzle?
- What is the world’s largest word search?
- How do you make a hard word search?
- What is the trick to word search?
- How do you create your own word search?
- How do you play word search?
- What is the word search?
In 1996, the mathematical logician George Boolos (above) published a paper describing “the hardest logic puzzle ever” which he attributed to the logician Raymond Smullyan. The puzzle has gained much attention. Here it is in all its glory: “Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random.
What is the world’s largest word search?
The largest word search puzzle has 10,500 words in a total of 129,600 letters, and was created by Ashish Dutt Sharma (India), in Rajasthan, India, as measured on 18 October 2015.
How do you make a hard word search?
– Increase the number of diagonals and backward-placed words. People tend to find words written forward, and either horizontally or vertically placed, easiest to find. Therefore by increasing the number of words backwards and diagonally placed, you can make them trickier to find in the grid.
What is the trick to word search?
A common strategy for finding all the words is to go through the puzzle left to right (or right to left) and look for the first letter of the word (if a word list is provided). After finding the letter, one should look at the eight surrounding letters to see whether the next letter of the word is there.
How do you create your own word search?
To make a word search, enter your list of words in the large area provided. You can type these by hand or paste them in from another document, such as a word processing document or a spreadsheet. Just make sure that you have one word per line. Next, enter values for the height (letters down) and width (letters across)…
How do you play word search?
How to Play Word Search Puzzle on PC 1 Install BlueStacks and run the installer 2 Complete one-time setup 3 Word Search Puzzle Go to the search bar at the top-right corner and search for Word Search Puzzle 4 Click the icon then click install on the Google Play screen.
What is the word search?
Definition of search (Entry 2 of 2) 1a : an act of searching a search for food go in search of help. b : an act of boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas in exercise of right of search.
Word searches are usually a fun way to spend time while forcing your brain to think critically, but this particular word search is being called one of the hardest out there!
It might seem simple at first: there are only three letters repeated throughout this entire thing, but within the first few seconds it’ll cause your eyes to see double and your brain to check out.
Unless you get lucky and just come across the answer, the only way to properly figure this word search out is just by going through each individual letter until you finally come across the hidden “dog!“
We have the answer on the next page to this fun brainteaser, but do your best to find the hidden dog, and be honest when you let us know how long it took until you found it yourself!
Move on to the next page for the answer!
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In our letter grid, which you can download here, you will find the 17 known types of fundamental particle (we have let you off the antiparticles), the 20 standard amino acids that make up life’s proteins and all 118 officially named elements in the periodic table.
Fair warning: the words you are looking for can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal, and go backwards as well as forwards. And because we know how clued-up you are, we aren’t going to give you any of the words.
Oh ok then, if you’re really stuck you can find the complete word list here – and the completed solution here.
Good luck!
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