Word Search Quiz

Your goal is to go from:                                        To:

This type of quiz should be familiar to many people since it is essentially a word search puzzle such as you may have done with pencil and paper. There are some additional features, however. As it is designed to be educational, if you hold the cursor over one of the words in the list, a definition of the word will pop up.

To play:

1. When you start, notice that the yellow box to the right is selected.  When you click and drag the mouse over letters that form a word from the list, they will be highlighted in that color:

2. You may select any of the four colors.  This is a good idea, although not necessary, in order to keep selected words separate from each other (many overlap).  The word in the word list was clicked on, thus making its color the same as the highlighted word, again a good idea to keep track of your progress.
3. Words are placed in the grid vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.  When you drag the mouse diagonally, you will almost certainly highlight letters you didn't mean to.  You can avoid this by clicking letters individually.  You can correct mistakes by right clicking on the letter, returning the background color to white.

4. Pressing the Picture Check button will show how many letters remain to be selected.  when this reaches 0, you can display the picture by passing the mouse over the white area.  The number could be less than 0 if you have selected to many letters.

4. When you believe the quiz is completed, press the Check Answers button.  WARNING: Once you press this button, there is no going back!  Remember that you can click the Picture Check button to confirm you have selected enough letters.  The first picture below shows the completed quiz prior to pressing the Check Answers button, and the second show the quiz after pressing Check Answers:

5. Notice that missed letters are highlighted in red.  Had the Picture Check Button been clicked prior to Check Answers, you would have seen:

6. Passing the mouse over the white area will not display the picture.  To see the picture, you may enter the number 0 into the box next to Picture Check, then pass the mouse over the white area to show the picture:

 

Each time you start this puzzle, or click the refresh button in your browser, the quiz will appear with different letters surrounding the words to be selected.  You might be surprised how much impact that can have on the difficulty of the quiz.  There are many ways in which you can choose to solve the quiz, including color selections and the use of the Picture check button.  There are no right and wrong ways in which to do these quizzes.  Just have fun!