Hard pirates word search
Skull and crossbones, a message in a bottle and a quartermaster keeping order: twenty-eight pirate words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For older kids and grown-ups who fancy a proper treasure hunt.
- Anchor
- Bosun
- Buccaneer
- Cannon
- Captain
- Compass
- Crow's nest
- Cutlass
- Doubloon
- Eye patch
- Galleon
- Gold coins
- Hammock
- Hook
- Island
- Jolly Roger
- Map
- Message in a bottle
- Mutiny
- Parrot
- Plank
- Quartermaster
- Rigging
- Shipwreck
- Skull and crossbones
- Spyglass
- Telescope
- Treasure chest
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 versionPirates, extra hard
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| C | H | R | E | B | G | H | P | I | I | S | L | A | N | D | I | N | E |
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| G | G | P | L | C | A | P | T | A | I | N | A | U | F | L | B | O | M |
| S | N | I | O | C | D | L | O | G | L | F | S | B | P | N | K | N | I |
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| E | G | S | I | N | Y | A | N | C | H | O | R | E | L | T | T | O | T |
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Find these words
- Anchor
- Bosun
- Buccaneer
- Cannon
- Captain
- Compass
- Crow's nest
- Cutlass
- Doubloon
- Eye patch
- Galleon
- Gold coins
- Hammock
- Hook
- Island
- Jolly Roger
- Map
- Message in a bottle
- Mutiny
- Parrot
- Plank
- Quartermaster
- Rigging
- Shipwreck
- Skull and crossbones
- Spyglass
- Telescope
- Treasure chest
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About this word search
The golden age of piracy, in the late 1600s and early 1700s, was over long before Europeans settled in New Zealand. Its words live on in stories: the quartermaster who kept order and shared out the loot, the bosun in charge of the rigging and the buccaneers of the Caribbean.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Skull and crossbones is the longest with eighteen letters, so it stretches from one edge of the grid to the other. Message in a bottle has sixteen, and Treasure chest and Quartermaster thirteen. Map has three letters and Hook four. Look for the Q in Quartermaster, the J in Jolly Roger and the Y in Mutiny and Spyglass. All multi-word names run together without spaces.
Play it as a race in pairs: one reads a word aloud, the other hunts for it. Swap after each find, and whoever spots Skull and crossbones gets to be captain.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the ferry or the bach. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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