Hard forest word search
Undergrowth, trillium and the black bear: twenty-eight forest words in a big eighteen by eighteen grid for older hikers. Some are hidden backwards or diagonally, so take your time.
- Acorn
- Bark
- Barred owl
- Black bear
- Blue jay
- Bracken
- Canopy
- Chestnut
- Chipmunk
- Clearing
- Hazel
- Holly
- Lichen
- Log pile
- Paper birch
- Park ranger
- Pine cone
- Raccoon
- Sap
- Stag
- Stream
- Toadstool
- Trail
- Trillium
- Undergrowth
- White-tailed deer
- Woodland
- Yew
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Make your own versionIn the forest, extra hard
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Find these words
- Acorn
- Bark
- Barred owl
- Black bear
- Blue jay
- Bracken
- Canopy
- Chestnut
- Chipmunk
- Clearing
- Hazel
- Holly
- Lichen
- Log pile
- Paper birch
- Park ranger
- Pine cone
- Raccoon
- Sap
- Stag
- Stream
- Toadstool
- Trail
- Trillium
- Undergrowth
- White-tailed deer
- Woodland
- Yew
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About this word search
The Barred owl has a call that birders put into words as who cooks for you, and a startled White-tailed deer raises the white underside of its tail like a warning flag. Raccoon comes from a Powhatan word that English colonists in Virginia borrowed.
White-tailed deer is the longest entry and stretches most of the way across the grid. Words can travel in any direction here, reversed included, so check both ends of every promising run of letters. Yew and Sap are the hardest, three letters each.
Chestnut has a story of its own. The American chestnut once filled eastern forests, until a blight in the early twentieth century killed billions of trees. Older hikers may enjoy looking that up after the puzzle.
Ways to use this word search
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