Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- MACKEREL
- The mackerel tabby — named for its fish-bone stripes — is considered the most common tabby pattern, its thin parallel lines running down the flanks like ribs.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CALICO
- Calico cats are almost always female; their tri-color coat requires two X chromosomes to carry both the orange and black color genes side by side.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TUXEDO
- A tuxedo cat's black-and-white bicolor pattern is sometimes called 'piebald' — and Sylvester the cartoon cat is one of the most famous tuxedo cats in pop culture.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BLAZE
- A blaze is a stripe or flash of contrasting color running down the center of a cat's face — a striking feature seen clearly in many tortoiseshell and bicolor cats.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Markings & Colors: a free large-print word search
Cat coat markings & colors word search — free and large-print. Tabby swirls, calico patches, the bright blaze of a ginger chin.
About Markings & Colors
Every cat wears a coat that is entirely its own — no two tabbies share quite the same swirl, no two calicos the same scatter of orange and black. The genes behind a cat's coloring are a quiet kind of alchemy: a single gene on the X chromosome is responsible for the warm flame of ginger, which is why nearly all orange cats are male. From the bold tuxedo contrast to the barely-there silver smoke drifting through pale fur, a cat's markings are a map worth studying in a sunny afternoon light.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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