Fill your basket with this vegetables word search: 54 vegetables from PEA and YAM to CAULIFLOWER and HORSERADISH, with both the American and British names for several, ZUCCHINI and COURGETTE among them. Twelve hide in each 12×12 grid. No app, no sign-up and no interstitial before play; it works offline and plays from the keyboard.
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The vegetables list has plenty of letters that the fill rarely makes, a lot of doubled letters, and a few traps where one word hides inside another. Work in this order and most grids fall quickly.
ZUCCHINI has the only Z, as well as a double C. JICAMA has the only J and SQUASH the only Q. K appears in KALE, LEEK, OKRA, ROCKET, KOHLRABI, ARTICHOKE and PUMPKIN, and V only in CHIVE and ENDIVE. Find the rare letter first, then check its eight neighbours for the next letter of the word.
The list is full of them: CARROT, BROCCOLI, LETTUCE, CABBAGE, SHALLOT, PEPPER, EGGPLANT, COURGETTE, FENNEL, MUSHROOM and WATERCRESS each have a pair, and BEETROOT has two, EE and OO. A doubled letter is rare in fill and looks the same from both ends.
BEET is inside BEETROOT, RADISH inside HORSERADISH, CORN inside SWEETCORN and CRESS inside WATERCRESS. Only one of each pair is ever in a grid, so a short word you spot inside a longer list word is not a separate find. YAM and PEA, the two three-letter vegetables, are best left for a final row-by-row sweep.
The vegetables list has 54 words, from YAM and PEA to CAULIFLOWER and HORSERADISH at eleven letters and WATERCRESS at ten. Six-letter words are the most common: CARROT, POTATO, TOMATO, GARLIC, CELERY, RADISH, TURNIP, SQUASH and FENNEL.
Roots and bulbs lead: CARROT, POTATO, ONION, GARLIC, LEEK, SHALLOT, BEET, RADISH, TURNIP, PARSNIP, YAM and GINGER. Then the greens (CABBAGE, KALE, LETTUCE, SPINACH, CHARD, CRESS), the flower heads and stalks (BROCCOLI, CAULIFLOWER, ARTICHOKE, ASPARAGUS, CELERY, FENNEL), the squash family (PUMPKIN, SQUASH, ZUCCHINI, CUCUMBER) and the pods and seeds (PEA, BEAN, LENTIL, OKRA, EDAMAME, CORN).
The list deliberately covers both sides of the Atlantic. ZUCCHINI and COURGETTE, EGGPLANT and AUBERGINE, ARUGULA and ROCKET, RUTABAGA and SWEDE are pairs that name the same vegetable, and both halves can appear in one grid. BEET and BEETROOT are the exception: one sits inside the other, so they never do.
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The vegetables grid fits a phone screen at the default size, and every letter can be reached with the arrow keys and chosen with Space or Enter. Tidy Puzzles runs entirely in your browser: there is no app to install, no account to create and no interstitial before you can play. After the first visit the game also works offline, because each puzzle is generated on your device from a seed. Every board can be played with the keyboard alone, on a phone or a desktop, and your stats and unfinished puzzles stay in this browser rather than on a server.
The list has 54. Each 12×12 grid hides 12 of them.
The list includes American and British names, so the puzzle works for both. Both can appear in the same grid.
CAULIFLOWER and HORSERADISH, at eleven letters. They appear only on grids of 12×12 and larger.
It is on both lists: a fruit by botany, a vegetable in most kitchens.
Yes. Pick Vegetables on the printable word search page for a PDF with an optional solution page.
The mixed grid, with words from all twenty themes.
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Any theme as a PDF, with a solution page.
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Grids that need only singles.
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