Play a music word search with 73 words: instruments from HARP and OBOE to XYLOPHONE, the theory of CHORD, TEMPO and CLEF, and styles from JAZZ and BLUES to OPERA and LULLABY. Twelve hide in each 12×12 grid. No app, no sign-up and no interstitial first; it works offline after your first visit and plays from the keyboard.
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The music list has more rare letters than most, which makes it one of the friendlier themes once you know where to look. The harder part is telling similar instrument names apart.
JAZZ has a J and a double Z, a run the fill almost never produces. XYLOPHONE and SAXOPHONE hold the only Xs, BANJO has a J, and K turns up in KEY, KEYBOARD, UKULELE, SPEAKER, ROCK and FOLK. V is in VERSE, VIOLIN and VIOLA.
VIOLIN and VIOLA share their first four letters, and HARMONY and HARMONICA their first six, so read to the end before you drag. BASS sits inside BASSOON and KEY inside KEYBOARD; the generator never picks both, so a short word inside a longer one is not a separate find.
RHYTHM has no A, E, I, O or U, only a Y. In a grid of fill weighted towards vowels, a run of consonants like that stands out once you look for it. Doubles help too: the LL in CELLO, BALLAD and LULLABY, the SS and OO in BASSOON, the CC in ACCORDION. Each pair reads the same from both ends, so it also catches backwards words.
The music list has 73 words. Only KEY has three letters, and TAMBOURINE and MICROPHONE are the longest at ten. Four- and five-letter words make up more than half the list: SONG, TUNE, BEAT, NOTE, HARP, TUBA and DRUM, CHORD, SCALE, PIANO, VIOLA and FLUTE.
The orchestra is here almost in full: strings (VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, HARP), woodwind (FLUTE, CLARINET, OBOE, BASSOON), brass (TRUMPET, TROMBONE, TUBA, HORN) and percussion (DRUM, CYMBAL, TAMBOURINE, TRIANGLE, XYLOPHONE). Beyond it sit GUITAR, BANJO, UKULELE, PIANO, ORGAN, ACCORDION and HARMONICA. The theory words, MELODY, HARMONY, RHYTHM, TEMPO, PITCH, TREBLE, CLEF and STAFF, sit beside the song words VERSE, CHORUS and LYRIC, and the people: SINGER, CONDUCTOR and COMPOSER.
Genres close the list: JAZZ, BLUES, ROCK, FOLK and OPERA, with the song types BALLAD, ANTHEM and LULLABY. UKULELE is one to spell carefully, with no double letter at all.
The timer pauses when the tab is hidden, and Music stats (played, won, win rate, best and average time) stay in this browser. The first two hints are free; once ads are enabled, more cost a short ad or a 30-second wait. Every grid has a code such as A7K3Q to replay or share, and the printable page makes music sheets.
The music grid plays the same on a phone, a tablet on a music stand or a desktop, with tap, drag or the keyboard. Tidy Puzzles runs entirely in your browser: there is no app to install, no account to create and no interstitial before you can play. After the first visit the game also works offline, because each puzzle is generated on your device from a seed. Every board can be played with the keyboard alone, on a phone or a desktop, and your stats and unfinished puzzles stay in this browser rather than on a server.
The list has 73. Each 12×12 grid hides 12 of them.
More than twenty-five, covering the orchestral families plus GUITAR, BANJO, UKULELE, ACCORDION and HARMONICA.
It has no vowels except Y, so its run of consonants looks unusual among fill letters that follow English frequency.
It makes a quick vocabulary warm-up, and the printable page turns it into PDF sheets with an optional solution page.
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Last updated 2026-09-27. Written and maintained by the Tidy Puzzles team; puzzles are generated on your device. How it works.