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
- KNEAD
- Cats knead soft surfaces, paws pressing in a rhythmic push-pull, a comfort behavior that begins in kittenhood and never quite leaves them.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BLINK
- A slow, deliberate blink from a cat is widely read as a sign of trust and ease; many cat owners blink back, and mean every word of it.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- VELVET
- The soft fur of a cat's inner ear and the bridge of the nose has a texture that genuinely rivals velvet, one of those small tactile pleasures that is hard to oversell.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PURR
- Cats purr at a frequency generally between 25 and 150 Hz, a range that has been associated in research with promoting bone density and tissue repair.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Contented Purr: a free large-print word search
The Contented Purr, a free, large-print word search celebrating the velvet paw, the slow blink, and a cat in perfect, drowsy bliss.
About The Contented Purr
A purring cat is one of the quietest forms of contentment the world has to offer. The steady rumble, felt as much as heard, seems to slow everything around it, the afternoon light, the breathing of the room, the turning of the clock. Kneading paws, a tucked muzzle, whiskers gone still: every small signal says the same warm thing.
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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