Hard New Zealand film word search
Heavenly Creatures, Smash Palace and Once Were Warriors, with the directors and actors who made them. Twenty-eight words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, hidden in all eight directions. For film buffs who stay until the end of the credits.
- Anna Paquin
- Boy
- Cast
- Geoff Murphy
- Gollum
- Goodbye Pork Pie
- Heavenly Creatures
- Hobbiton
- Jane Campion
- Karl Urban
- Lee Tamahori
- Niki Caro
- Once Were Warriors
- Orcs
- Pai
- Peter Jackson
- Rena Owen
- Roger Donaldson
- Sam Neill
- Sleeping Dogs
- Smash Palace
- Taika Waititi
- Temuera Morrison
- The Piano
- Utu
- Weta Workshop
- Whale Rider
- Wilderpeople
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionNew Zealand film, extra hard
Name
| L | B | J | A | N | E | C | A | M | P | I | O | N | H | I | N | D | A |
| S | R | O | I | R | R | A | W | E | R | E | W | E | C | N | O | R | R |
| E | N | F | Y | A | H | A | N | T | E | G | D | H | D | A | S | T | E |
| R | O | N | E | C | L | N | I | I | D | W | G | G | I | P | I | A | L |
| U | S | Y | C | Y | T | O | U | H | I | E | N | O | O | E | R | F | P |
| T | D | H | I | N | A | R | Q | K | R | T | T | N | G | T | R | E | O |
| A | L | P | T | I | I | C | A | U | E | A | H | K | S | E | O | S | E |
| E | A | R | N | K | K | S | P | T | L | W | E | A | R | R | M | L | P |
| R | N | U | E | I | A | A | A | U | A | O | P | R | C | J | A | E | R |
| C | O | M | W | C | W | M | N | V | H | R | I | L | T | A | R | E | E |
| Y | D | F | O | A | A | N | N | G | W | K | A | U | A | C | E | P | D |
| L | R | F | A | R | I | E | A | N | T | S | N | R | O | K | U | I | L |
| N | E | O | N | O | T | I | B | B | O | H | O | B | I | S | M | N | I |
| E | G | E | E | D | I | L | I | A | V | O | H | A | F | O | E | G | W |
| V | O | G | R | T | T | L | N | F | L | P | Y | N | L | N | T | D | E |
| A | R | P | S | E | I | P | K | R | O | P | E | Y | B | D | O | O | G |
| E | C | A | L | A | P | H | S | A | M | S | M | U | L | L | O | G | W |
| H | C | I | A | L | E | E | T | A | M | A | H | O | R | I | R | S | P |
Find these words
- Anna Paquin
- Boy
- Cast
- Geoff Murphy
- Gollum
- Goodbye Pork Pie
- Heavenly Creatures
- Hobbiton
- Jane Campion
- Karl Urban
- Lee Tamahori
- Niki Caro
- Once Were Warriors
- Orcs
- Pai
- Peter Jackson
- Rena Owen
- Roger Donaldson
- Sam Neill
- Sleeping Dogs
- Smash Palace
- Taika Waititi
- Temuera Morrison
- The Piano
- Utu
- Weta Workshop
- Whale Rider
- Wilderpeople
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About this word search
The New Zealand film story runs from Roger Donaldson's Sleeping Dogs in 1977, with a young Sam Neill, and Smash Palace in 1981 to Geoff Murphy's Utu, and on to Lee Tamahori's Once Were Warriors in 1994, with Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison. Anna Paquin won an Oscar as a child for The Piano, Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for playing Pai in Whale Rider, and Peter Jackson made Heavenly Creatures years before Gollum and the orcs of Middle-earth.
Eighteen by eighteen, in all eight directions. Heavenly Creatures is the longest at seventeen letters, then Once Were Warriors at sixteen and Temuera Morrison at fifteen. At the other end, Boy, Utu and Pai are only three letters. Utu reads the same backwards, so you will find it either way. The Q appears only in Anna Paquin, a good place to start.
Pick one film from the grid you have never seen and watch it this month. Many older New Zealand films and clips can be found on NZ On Screen.
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