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Puzzle of the week: Musical Word Search

February 1, 2013

As a new addition to our blog, we will be offering a puzzle of the week. Each puzzle will be selected from one of our unique puzzle books. Today’s puzzle is an oddly shaped word search from Uncle John’s Bathroom Puzzler: Word Search. So grab a pencil–erasers are encouraged–and get searching! Start by printing a PDF of the puzzle.  And when you are done, check out the answers.

Musical Word Search

For your reading pleasure, here is the history of Word Search from Wikipedia.

A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that is letters of a word in a grid, that usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Often a list of the hidden words is provided, but more challenging puzzles may let the player figure them out. Many word search puzzles have a theme to which all the hidden words are related. The puzzles have, like crosswords and arrowords, have been very popular in the United Kingdom, and – also in common with these latter puzzles – have had complete magazines devoted to them.

Word searches are commonly found in daily newspapers and puzzle books. Some teachers use them as educational tools for children, the benefit being that young minds can learn new words and their spellings by intensively searching for them, letter by letter, in the puzzle.