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Words hide across, down, and diagonally.
On Easy they keep to across and down; Hard hides them in all eight directions — including backwards.
Boardee Arcade · Word games
Word Search
Find hidden words in a letter grid.
The puzzle that settles a room. Put this week's spelling list in a grid and it becomes quiet, purposeful hunting — perfect for early finishers, soft starts, or the ten minutes before the bell.
Also known as: word find · hidden words
👥 1–4 Players✨ AI fills the content
- Free for teachers · students never need accounts
How to play
Find every hidden word in the grid.
That's the goal — no rules to teach. Here's how a round of Word Search runs.
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Drag across the letters to select a word.
A finger on the touchboard works like the mouse — and a trace counts forwards or backwards. Wrong trail? A quick red flash and the hunt goes on.
Find them all to complete the puzzle.
Found words lock in colour and strike off the list — the round ends the moment the last one lands, or when the timer runs out.
Ways to play
One word list, three ways to hunt it
The same Word Search works as a front-of-class hunt, a live device race, or take-home practice. Pick at press-play — nothing to rebuild.
On the big screen
Project one grid and the whole class hunts together — students call the hiding spots while you (or the kid whose turn it is) drags. No devices, no setup, no codes.
Zero devices · zero prepLive on their devices
Students go to boardee.app/join and type the six-digit code — phones, tablets, chromebooks, any browser. Everyone races the same puzzle on their own screen, and the leaderboard counts words found.
Join code or QR · no student accountsIn their own time
Share one play link and the same puzzle becomes homework, a soft start or early-finisher work. Results roll in as each student finishes — words found and time, no chasing.
One link · results tracked for youWhat can you hide?
Any word list is a puzzle
Spelling words, unit vocab, French verbs — if you can list it, the grid can hide it. Type the topic; AI writes the list and builds the puzzle.
This week's list
SpellingVLNCXBPRFRIENDKJFMVLNBPYTRUQWGSDKJF
FRIEND→across
Unit vocabulary
ScienceVLNCXBPRUQZHWGKYGRENEBPYTRUQWGSDKJF
ENERGY←backwards
French words
LanguagesWGSMKJFLNCEBPYUQZRWGSJFMCLNCPYTIUQZ
MERCI↓down
Landforms
GeographyWDSDKJFLNEXBPYUQZLWGSJFMVTNCPYTRUAZ
DELTA↘diagonal
Ancient Egypt
HistoryPYTRUQZGSDKEFMNCXLPYTQZIWGSDFNVLNCX
NILE↗diagonal
Shape names
MathsWGPDKJFLNRXBPYUQIHWGSJFSVLNCPYMRUQZ
PRISM↓down
The library
Word Search is one shape of twenty-five
The Arcade is a library of classroom games that all drink from the same topic box. When the grid's been solved, the identical word list becomes a crossword, a Wordee round or a matching game — same topic, new game, zero re-typing.
- 25 game types, from quiz shows to word puzzles
- One topic box fills any of them in under a minute
- Save your rounds and relaunch them any lesson
Three ways in
Three ways to get a Word Search
Ready-made from the Discover shelves, AI-built from your topic, or typed by hand — every door ends at the same play button.
Grab one ready-made
Search the Discover shelves — curated games plus rounds shared by other teachers. Find one that fits and press play.
Ask AI to build it
Type what you're teaching and the Arcade writes your Word Search in under a minute. Check it, tweak anything, play.
Type it yourself
Every Word Search has a plain editor underneath — your exact list, row by row, no AI in the loop.
Built for the classroom
AI fills it. You press play.
Every Arcade game starts from the same box: type what you're teaching and the content writes itself — questions, words, clues — ready for the board at the front of the room.
- Real content on your topic and grade — skim, edit or reroll before the class sees it
- Big type and chunky buttons, readable from the back row
- Students join with a code and a name — no accounts, ever
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Game types in the Arcade — one topic box fills them all
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From typing a topic to pressing play
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Student accounts — a code and a first name is the whole login
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Steps every time: type it, check it, play it
I typed 'the water cycle' and had a class quiz in ten seconds flat. It's the first tool my whole department adopted.
FAQ
Good to know
How many students can play at once?
As many as join. Put one grid on the projector and let tables race to spot words, or run a live round where every student hunts the same puzzle from their own device.
Do students need their own devices?
No. It works fully on the projector. For individual play, students join from any browser with a code, or you can share a play link — nothing to install.
Can AI build a puzzle on my topic?
Yes. Give it a topic and grade level — or paste your own word list — and it builds the grid in under a minute. Ready-made packs are there when you're in a hurry.
Can I make it easier or harder?
Grid sizes run from 8×8 up to 20×20, with easy, medium and hard settings — Hard hides words in all eight directions — plus a timer you can set and a word list you can show or hide.
Do students need accounts?
Never. Students join with a code and a name — no emails, no passwords. Teachers don't need an account to try it either.
Same box, different shape
More word games
Same three steps, different game. Type a topic and pick your shape.
What are you teaching tomorrow?
Type it in, check the content, press play. The Arcade does the rest.