Player guide

How to play World Word Search

Find every hidden term, learn from its verified discovery card, then use the mastery quiz to retrieve what you learned.

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1. Sign in

Choose Sign up on the game page and continue with Google. Your account stores your chosen username, puzzle history, quiz points and leaderboard result. Educators can create a school profile; Sunday-school teachers can create a church profile; learners join the relevant organisation with its seven-character code.

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2. Choose a focused topic

The free daily challenge changes topic by date. A category puzzle keeps all ten answers inside one coherent subject. For each signed-in learner, the server allocates ten terms that have not previously appeared in that learner’s chosen category, then builds a new personal grid.

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3. Find and trace words

Words may run horizontally, vertically or diagonally in any of eight directions. Drag or touch from the first letter to the last in one straight line. A correct word stays coloured on the grid and adds 100 word-search points.

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4. Study the discovery card

Open a found word to read its definition, context, significance, three points to remember, related careers and cited links. The card is part of the activity—not an optional decoration—because the quiz uses the same knowledge.

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5. Use help responsibly

Hint marks the two endpoints of one unfound word and adds a ten-second time penalty. Answer key is available from the puzzle tools and reveals directions and start/end coordinates, like the answers section in a printed puzzle book.

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6. Complete the mastery quiz

After all ten words are found, the ten-question quiz opens automatically. Questions test recall, comprehension, connections and application. Each correct answer adds 50 quiz points, which are combined with word-search points on the leaderboard.

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7. Continue learning

Review any incorrect explanation, then choose another puzzle in the same subject. New category puzzles introduce unseen vocabulary for that learner; quiz review supplies the repetition needed for retrieval practice without recycling hidden answers.