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Level 3, Challenging

Diamond Series: Challenging large-print word search books

The most challenging level of the Word Hunt: large print, rare and remarkable words in all eight directions, and a featured word on every page with its pronunciation, meaning and origin.

All eight directions, with overlaps and near misses

How the puzzles work

Words run
Words hide in all eight directions, with overlaps and near misses.
Words to find
20 per puzzle
Letter grid
16 × 16
Letter size
18 pt, bold
Paperback
8.5 × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm), 140 pages
On every page
A featured word with how to say it, what it means and where it came from, plus a hidden gem
In the back
A Treasury of Words (all 100 featured words, A to Z) and a full answer key

Books in the Diamond Series

Cover of The Big Easy-Read Word Hunt: Words Worth Knowing, with pastel rainbow lettering on a dark purple cover inside a gem-cut frame, a Large Print badge, a Level 3 badge, a Diamond Series · Challenging ribbon, the line 100 Large-Print Word Searches · 2,000 Words, and a sample grid where WHIM runs down, SAGE slants down, and APLOMB, GUSTO and ZEAL run across

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The Big Easy-Read Word Hunt: Diamond Series, Words Worth Knowing

  • 100 large-print word search puzzles at the challenging level, one per page
  • 2,000 rare and remarkable words to find, 20 in every puzzle
  • A word worth knowing on every page, such as PETRICHOR, the earthy smell of rain on dry ground, with how to say it, what it means and where it came from
  • Words run in all eight directions and often cross
  • Near misses to watch for: the start of a word that stops a letter or two short
  • The word list is in no particular order
  • A hidden gem on every page: the featured word is hidden in the grid too, but not in the list
  • A Treasury of Words: all 100 featured words gathered A to Z
  • 16 × 16 letter grids, printed at 18 pt in bold
  • Full answer key in the back
  • Paperback, 8.5 × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm), 140 pages

Themes include: Balderdash! · Chatterboxes · A Parliament of Owls · Latin Phrases · Secret Names of Things

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The Big Easy-Read Word Hunt: Diamond Series, Words Worth Knowing

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Cover of The Big Easy-Read Word Hunt: Winter Words, with icy blue lettering on a dark night-sky cover lit by the northern lights inside a gem-cut frame, a Large Print badge, a Level 3 badge, a Diamond Series · Challenging ribbon, the line 100 Large-Print Word Searches · 2,000 Words, and a sample grid between snow crystals where RIME runs down, FIRN slants down, and BOREAL, GELID and FLOE run across

Large print · Paperback · On Amazon now

The Big Easy-Read Word Hunt: Diamond Series, Winter Words

  • 100 large-print winter word search puzzles at the challenging level, one per page
  • 2,000 rare winter words to find, 20 in every puzzle
  • A winter word worth knowing on every page, such as SASTRUGI, the wavelike ridges of hard snow shaped by the wind, with how to say it, what it means and where it came from
  • Words run in all eight directions and often cross
  • Near misses to watch for: the start of a word that stops a letter or two short
  • The word list is in no particular order
  • A hidden gem on every page: the featured word is hidden in the grid too, but not in the list
  • A Treasury of Words: all 100 featured words gathered A to Z
  • 16 × 16 letter grids, printed at 18 pt in bold
  • Full answer key in the back
  • Paperback, 8.5 × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm), 140 pages

Themes include: Words for Snow · Aurora Borealis · Sled Dogs · The Roaring Game · From the Norse Sagas · Puddings and Possets

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The Big Easy-Read Word Hunt: Diamond Series, Winter Words

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