A letter grid with words hidden in every direction, including backwards and diagonally. Find them all to clear the board.
About Word Hunt
Word search is the puzzle everyone has done on the back of a menu, and the reason it works is that it asks for pattern recognition rather than vocabulary. You are not trying to think of words — you are given the list. You are just trying to find shapes in noise, which is a completely different and oddly soothing kind of effort.
The grids here run words in all eight directions, which is where the difficulty actually lives. Left-to-right words are found almost instantly because you read that way anyway. Diagonals are much harder, and backwards diagonals hardest of all, since nothing about how you normally read helps you. Most people find the last two or three words on any grid are the ones running up and to the left.
The technique that beats scanning is to hunt first letters rather than whole words. Pick a word from the list, look only for its starting letter across the grid, and check the eight directions from each hit. It is slower per letter and dramatically faster overall, and it makes the diagonals stop being a wall.
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How to play Word Hunt
Find each word from the list hidden in the letter grid. Words run in all eight directions, including backwards and diagonally. Drag across a word to select it.
Controls
Click and drag across the letters, or swipe on touch screens.
Tips & tricks
- Hunt the first letter of one word rather than scanning for whole words.
- Backwards diagonals are the hardest — check them deliberately at the end.
- Cross words off the list as you go so you stop re-hunting them.
Frequently asked questions
Is Word Hunt unblocked at school or work?
Word Hunt runs inside its publisher's player, which is a plain web page — no plugin, no installer, no app store — so it loads on a Chromebook or a locked-down school or office laptop the same way any other page does. Whether it opens comes down to your network's filter rather than the game itself, and there is nothing to install either way.
Who made Word Hunt?
Word Hunt comes from an independent studio and is featured here through our partner network; the rights belong to its original developers.