New Zealand film word search
Whale Rider, Goodbye Pork Pie and a hobbit hole in the Waikato. Twenty words from New Zealand film and the people who made it, for a night in with the popcorn.
- Boy
- Cast
- Cinema
- Embassy
- Goodbye Pork Pie
- Hobbiton
- Jane Campion
- Matinee
- Middle-earth
- Niki Caro
- Orcs
- Oscar
- Peter Jackson
- Popcorn
- Taika Waititi
- 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
Name
| I | A | T | A | I | K | A | W | A | I | T | I | T | I |
| W | I | W | E | T | A | W | O | R | K | S | H | O | P |
| N | J | A | N | E | C | A | M | P | I | O | N | N | T |
| O | R | R | W | H | A | L | E | R | I | D | E | R | N |
| G | O | O | D | B | Y | E | P | O | R | K | P | I | E |
| O | S | C | A | R | S | H | O | B | B | I | T | O | N |
| R | W | B | O | Y | E | M | B | A | S | S | Y | P | T |
| C | M | I | D | D | L | E | E | A | R | T | H | B | H |
| S | A | W | I | L | D | E | R | P | E | O | P | L | E |
| R | R | E | N | P | N | I | K | I | C | A | R | O | P |
| P | E | T | E | R | J | A | C | K | S | O | N | T | I |
| C | A | S | T | P | C | I | N | E | M | A | T | F | A |
| E | E | Y | I | M | A | T | I | N | E | E | P | T | N |
| U | T | U | U | M | S | P | O | P | C | O | R | N | O |
Find these words
- Boy
- Cast
- Cinema
- Embassy
- Goodbye Pork Pie
- Hobbiton
- Jane Campion
- Matinee
- Middle-earth
- Niki Caro
- Orcs
- Oscar
- Peter Jackson
- Popcorn
- Taika Waititi
- The Piano
- Utu
- Weta Workshop
- Whale Rider
- Wilderpeople
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About this word search
Peter Jackson filmed The Lord of the Rings across New Zealand, and the Hobbiton set near Matamata still draws visitors. Weta Workshop in Wellington made the armour and creatures, and the city's Embassy Theatre held the world premiere of The Return of the King in 2003. Jane Campion's The Piano won the top prize at Cannes in 1993, Niki Caro brought Whale Rider to the screen in 2002, and Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople became one of the most popular local films ever. Long before that, Goodbye Pork Pie sent a yellow Mini the length of the country.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Goodbye Pork Pie fills a row at fourteen letters. Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, Weta Workshop and Wilderpeople have twelve. Two films are the shortest at three letters: Boy, from 2010, and Geoff Murphy's Utu from 1983. Cast and Orcs have four. Middle-earth loses its hyphen and becomes MIDDLEEARTH, with a double E. The J only appears in Peter Jackson and Jane Campion, and Taika Waititi is crowded with I's and T's.
Perfect before a movie night with the whānau. Find the words while the popcorn is popping, then match each film to its director before the opening credits roll.
Ways to use this word search
With your coffee
Print a sheet for a quiet moment at the kitchen table or in your armchair. Start with the regular version and save the hard one for when you really have time for it.
On the go
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Bring the sheet to your book club, a night in with friends or a visit to your parents and see who finds every word first. Or play online and find out 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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