Rugby word search
The All Blacks, the Black Ferns and a haka before kick-off. Twenty rugby words in a fourteen by fourteen grid, from first five to the Ranfurly Shield.
- All Blacks
- Black Ferns
- Bledisloe Cup
- Conversion
- Eden Park
- First five
- Goal posts
- Haka
- Halfback
- Hooker
- Lineout
- Maul
- Mouthguard
- Penalty
- Ranfurly Shield
- Referee
- Ruck
- Scrum
- Tackle
- Try
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Name
| N | C | A | R | E | F | E | R | E | E | R | A | N | T |
| D | O | P | H | A | A | L | L | B | L | A | C | K | S |
| T | N | E | O | B | B | T | H | Y | C | N | F | I | V |
| E | V | S | O | L | L | B | A | P | R | F | O | F | M |
| E | E | H | K | A | E | K | L | C | E | U | U | I | O |
| E | R | G | E | C | D | S | F | T | K | R | H | R | U |
| D | S | L | R | K | I | C | B | T | R | L | T | S | T |
| E | I | I | L | F | S | R | A | R | M | Y | E | T | H |
| N | O | N | E | E | L | U | C | F | C | S | N | F | G |
| P | N | E | L | R | O | M | K | E | H | H | S | I | U |
| A | C | O | L | N | E | U | F | Y | A | I | L | V | A |
| R | T | U | S | S | C | R | U | C | K | E | N | E | R |
| K | A | T | R | L | U | P | E | N | A | L | T | Y | D |
| M | G | O | A | L | P | O | S | T | S | D | E | R | U |
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- All Blacks
- Black Ferns
- Bledisloe Cup
- Conversion
- Eden Park
- First five
- Goal posts
- Haka
- Halfback
- Hooker
- Lineout
- Maul
- Mouthguard
- Penalty
- Ranfurly Shield
- Referee
- Ruck
- Scrum
- Tackle
- Try
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About this word search
The All Blacks have won the Rugby World Cup three times, in 1987, 2011 and 2015, and the Black Ferns won their sixth title at Eden Park in 2022. Before a test the All Blacks perform a haka, most often Ka Mate, composed by the Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen, with words across, down or diagonally, never backwards. Ranfurly Shield is the longest with fourteen letters, then Bledisloe Cup with twelve. Try is only three letters and haka, ruck and maul four. All Blacks, Black Ferns and first five run together without spaces. The K turns up in eight words, from haka to Black Ferns, and the F in five, from referee to Ranfurly Shield.
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