Wordfinder (The Globe and Mail)
The Globe and Mail's daily word search: find every listed word hidden in the grid.
Every day: One new word search grid each day, the same for every reader, chosen by the date in Toronto, with earlier grids in an archive. New puzzle: Midnight Eastern Time (Toronto).
Wordfinder is the classic word search on The Globe and Mail's puzzle page. A new grid of letters and a list of words arrives each day for every reader, and you hunt each word down.
About Wordfinder (The Globe and Mail)
Wordfinder is one of the daily puzzles on The Globe and Mail's puzzles and crosswords page, next to the Globe Mini, the Daily Crossword, the Daily Cryptic and Sudoku. The paper sums it up in four words: words hide, you seek.
Each day's grid is chosen by the date in Toronto, so every reader works on the same letters that day. It plays in the browser, and the archive page keeps earlier grids if you want to catch up.
There is no clue solving and no guessing here: the words to find are listed, and the work is in spotting them. That makes it a calm warm-up before the paper's crosswords, and a good daily puzzle for younger or newer solvers.
How to play Wordfinder (The Globe and Mail)
- Open Wordfinder on The Globe and Mail's puzzles page and press Play.
- Read the list of words hidden in the grid.
- Find a word in the letters.
- Drag across its letters from the first to the last to mark it.
- Keep going until every word on the list is found.
Tips
- Scan for an unusual letter such as Q, Z, X or J first; words containing them are quick to spot.
- Look for the first two letters of a word together rather than the first letter alone.
- Once the easy words are gone, look along the diagonals, where words are hardest to see.
Questions
Is Wordfinder a daily puzzle?
Yes. The Globe and Mail lists Wordfinder as a daily puzzle, and the grid changes with the date in Toronto.
Where is the Wordfinder archive?
It is at /puzzles-and-crosswords/wordsearch/archive/ on The Globe and Mail's site.
Is Wordfinder free?
It plays on the newspaper's ad-supported puzzle page. The page marks only the Giant Crossword as being for subscribers.
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