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Fri, 18 May 2012

What are the rules of Wordsearch?

Wordsearch is one of the most known and familiar of all puzzles, and the rules will change depending on the puzzle.

However in every puzzle the words will be hidden in a grid of letters, and you must find those words in the grid.

Words will nearly always overlap unless stated otherwise, though of course in a good puzzle no word should ever be fully hidden within another word!

Words are normall placed forwards, backwards, up and down.

In many puzzles the words are also place diagonally in any of the four diagonal possibilities, unless stated that the words are only placed forward, back, up and down.


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