Indiana Word Search
Indianapolis is the state capital and home to the Indianapolis 500 auto race. People from Indiana are called Hoosiers, though nobody is certain where the word came from.
Indiana word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- basketball
- corn
- dune
- farm
- hoosier
- limestone
- popcorn
- race car
- river
- steel
Indiana word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- basketball
- cardinal
- corn
- dune
- farm
- fort wayne
- hoosier
- indianapolis
- lake michigan
- limestone
- peony
- popcorn
- race car
- river
- steel
Indiana word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- basketball
- cardinal
- corn
- dune
- farm
- fort wayne
- gary
- hoosier
- indianapolis
- lake michigan
- limestone
- peony
- popcorn
- race car
- river
- south bend
- speedway
- steel
- tulip tree
- wabash
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Words in the Indiana word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- corn
- Indiana's leading crop, planted on millions of acres
- race car
- Race cars circle the Indianapolis Motor Speedway each May
- basketball
- A longtime passion in Indiana, played in gyms in every town
- farm
- Farms use about two thirds of Indiana's land
- limestone
- Indiana limestone built the Empire State Building and many capitols
- dune
- Tall sand dunes line Indiana's Lake Michigan shore
- river
- The Wabash and Ohio rivers help form Indiana's borders
- popcorn
- Indiana grows more popcorn than almost any other state
- hoosier
- The nickname for a person from Indiana
- steel
- Steel mills along Lake Michigan once employed tens of thousands
- indianapolis
- Indiana's capital and largest city, in the middle of the state
- fort wayne
- Indiana's second largest city, in the northeast
- lake michigan
- The Great Lake touching Indiana's northwest corner
- cardinal
- The northern cardinal is Indiana's state bird
- peony
- The peony has been Indiana's state flower since 1957
- tulip tree
- The tall tulip tree is the state tree of Indiana
- wabash
- Indiana's official state river, flowing across the state
- speedway
- The oval track where the Indianapolis 500 is run
- south bend
- A northern Indiana city on the St. Joseph River
- gary
- A steel city on Indiana's Lake Michigan shore
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