This holidays word search collects 66 words for celebrations all year: GIFT, RIBBON and BALLOON, winter SLEIGH and TINSEL, autumn PUMPKIN and COSTUME, a spring BUNNY and summer FIREWORKS. Twelve hide in each 12×12 grid. No app and no sign-up, nothing to dismiss before play, offline play after one visit and full keyboard control.
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The holidays list has no Q, X or Z at all, so the usual trick of starting with the rarest letter needs adjusting. Any of those three letters you see in the grid is fill and can be ignored.
K appears in CAKE, COOKIE, MASK, STOCKING, PUMPKIN, BASKET, FIREWORKS and TURKEY. W appears in BOW, WRAP, WREATH, SWEETS, FIREWORKS and SNOWMAN. V is in VACATION, FESTIVAL and VALENTINE. None of these letters is common in the fill, so each one is worth checking.
RIBBON, BALLOON, DINNER, COOKIE, SWEETS, HOLLY, REINDEER, CONFETTI, BUNNY and BANNER all have a doubled letter, and BALLOON has two. Doubles look the same from both ends, so they catch backwards words.
CELEBRATION (eleven letters) and DECORATION (ten) are easy to see once you look. On a 12×12, CELEBRATION fills eleven of the twelve cells in its line, so it starts or ends at the edge. Band the long words early: they use up letters that would otherwise hide BOW, PIE and EGG. Those three are best found last, with a slow row-by-row sweep for their first letter.
The holidays list has 66 words, written for celebrations in general rather than any single holiday, so it suits a class or family of any background. It runs from BOW, PIE and EGG to CELEBRATION at eleven letters, with six- to eight-letter words such as RIBBON, LANTERN, COSTUME and ORNAMENT making up the middle.
Much of it is universal: PARTY, GIFT, PRESENT, CARD, CANDLE, CAKE, FEAST, DINNER, FAMILY, FRIENDS, PARADE, FESTIVAL, TRADITION and CONFETTI. Then each season gets a corner. Winter brings SLEIGH, REINDEER, SNOWMAN, STOCKING, CHIMNEY, CAROL, HOLLY, MISTLETOE, TINSEL, WREATH and GARLAND. Autumn has PUMPKIN, HARVEST, COSTUME, MASK and TURKEY. Spring has EGG, BUNNY and BASKET, with HEART and VALENTINE nearby, and summer is PICNIC, BARBECUE, BEACH, SUNSHINE, VACATION and FIREWORKS.
MISTLETOE has a silent T, and BARBECUE is spelled the long way.
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The list has 66. Each 12×12 grid hides 12 of them.
No single holiday: the words are about celebrations in general, with a corner for each season.
Start with K, W and V, since the list has no Q, X or Z, then use doubled letters such as the LL and OO in BALLOON.
Yes. The printable page makes a PDF of up to six grids, with an optional solution page.
CELEBRATION, at eleven letters, which appears only on grids of 12×12 and larger.
The mixed grid, with words from all twenty themes.
Breakfast to dessert: 66 foods and dishes.
Passports, transport and places to stay.
Any theme as a PDF, with a solution page.
Flip and match pairs on 4×4 or 6×6 boards.
Klondike with turn 1 or turn 3.
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