Sopa de Letras (El Mundo)

About Sopa de Letras (El Mundo)

Sopa de letras is the Spanish name for a word search, and El Mundo, the Madrid newspaper, publishes a new one every day on its games pages. The grid of letters hides a list of Spanish words, running across, down or on the diagonal, and the job is to find and mark each one until the list is done.

It is a calm puzzle compared with the paper's crossword or Palabro: no clues to crack, just careful scanning, which El Mundo pitches as training for concentration. The game runs in the browser after a short advert, and a free El Mundo registration keeps your progress on any device. Earlier grids are in an archive.

The words are Spanish, so it suits Spanish speakers and learners who want to practise vocabulary, and anyone who likes a relaxed daily puzzle next to El Mundo's sudokus, Memory and news quiz.

How to play Sopa de Letras (El Mundo)

1. Open Sopa de Letras on El Mundo's games page.
2. Read the list of words to find.
3. Find each word in the grid and drag across it to mark it.
4. Keep going until every word on the list is found.

Tips

• Look for unusual letters such as Ñ, Z or Q first; they narrow down where a word can be.
• Scan for the first two letters of a word together rather than one letter at a time.
• Check the diagonals once the straight lines run dry.

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