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Tide Pool Treasures

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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

BARNACLE
Barnacles cement themselves headfirst to rock and spend their lives kicking food into their mouths with feathery legs, one of the sea's most resourceful architects.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
LIMPET
A limpet always returns to the exact same spot on its home rock, grinding a scar into the stone that fits its shell like a key in a lock.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GOBY
The goby is one of the most common tide-pool fish in North America, small enough to shelter under a pebble and quick enough to vanish before you blink.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CHITON
Chitons have been grazing on algae-covered rocks for more than 500 million years, their eight overlapping shell plates flexing perfectly with every curve of the stone.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Tide pool word search, playable online right now. Low tide leaves the rocks crowded with anemones and barnacles, a hermit crab hauling its borrowed shell.

About Tide Pool Treasures

A tide pool is one of nature's most patient galleries, left behind twice a day as the ocean pulls back, each shallow basin holds a world in miniature. Rough-textured barnacles ring the highest rocks, limpets graze slow trails across wet stone, and a bright orange starfish stretches across a mossy patch in no particular hurry. Peer closely enough and the water reveals hermit crabs negotiating new shells, sea urchins tucked into crevices, and a small sculpin holding perfectly still against the gravel bottom, invisible until it isn't.

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    Find 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.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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