Word search

The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box.

Like crosswords and arrowords, these puzzles have become very popular and have had complete books and mobile applications devoted to them.

was originally designed and published by Norman E. Gibat in the Selenby Digest on March 1, 1968, in Norman, Oklahoma, although the Spanish puzzle creator Pedro Ocón de Oro was publishing "Sopas de letras" (Spanish "Soup of Letters") before that date.

[citation needed]There is a very likely possibility James Patrick Carr of Villa Grove, Illinois created this puzzle before 1968.

There is proof predating Gibats 1968 of PC's puzzles in Villa Grove High School sporting event brochures.

Selenby was a small want-ad digest distributed free at Safeway and other stores in the town.

Word search puzzles have been popular on the internet with Facebook games such as the 2013 Letters of Gold.

The mid-70s CBS game show "Now You See It" was a made-for-TV adaptation of a word search puzzle.

Snaking puzzles either hide words in a random fashion, or are designed to trace out a path in a definite shape, like a square, rectangle, horseshoe, or donut.

Some teachers, particularly those specializing in English as a Second Language (ESL), use word search puzzles as an instructional tool.