Word Search Maker
Make your own word search in seconds. Type a title and your words, choose how hard it should be, and press Make puzzle. Play it here, print it with the answer key, or send someone a link to the exact same puzzle.
Fall Harvest word search (Medium)
Find these 12 words
Across, down and diagonal
- Acorn
- Apple
- Bonfire
- Cider
- Corn maze
- Harvest
- Hayride
- Leaves
- Maple
- Pumpkin
- Scarecrow
- Sweater
Press Print for a clean sheet with just the puzzle and word list. Turn on Show answers first to print the answer key. Your words stay in your browser and in the share link; nothing is saved on our side.
How to make a word search
- Give it a title. It prints at the top of the page.
- Type your words, one per line or with commas between them. Spaces and punctuation are dropped in the grid, so "ice cream" hides as ICECREAM.
- Pick a difficulty. Easy hides words across and down, medium adds diagonals, and hard hides them in any direction, backwards included.
- Press Make puzzle. Don't like the layout? Shuffle letters gives you a new grid with the same words.
- Print it, play it on screen, or copy the share link so someone else gets the same puzzle.
Tips for a good puzzle
Twelve to twenty words is about right for one page. Fit my words picks the smallest grid that holds them, and you can choose a bigger one if you want more filler letters to search through.
Mix short and long words. A list of only long words makes a big grid, and a list of only three-letter words is over too fast.
Personal words make the best puzzles: names at a family reunion, inside jokes for a birthday, the couple's favorite places for a bridal shower, or old street names and songs for a parent who loves puzzles. Turn on Large print before printing for anyone who prefers bigger letters.