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
- TRIVET
- A trivet, a three-legged stand set between a pot and the table, takes its name from the Latin 'tripes,' meaning three feet. Cast-iron trivets were a prized piece of kitchen equipment long before modern pot holders.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PILOT
- The pilot light, a tiny standing flame inside older gas stoves, burned continuously to ignite the burners on demand. Many cooks swore by its gentle warmth for proofing bread dough on a cold day.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- HEARTH
- Before the modern range, the hearth was the stove, a wide fireplace fitted with iron cranes and hooks for hanging pots directly over the fire. The word itself comes from Old English and is rooted in the idea of burning and warmth.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SIMMER
- A true simmer sits just below a boil, small, lazy bubbles rising from the bottom, never a full rolling surge. Generations of cooks passed down the art of 'keeping it at a simmer' for soups, stews, and sauces that reward patience.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Old Stove: a free large-print word search
The Old Stove, a free, large-print word search glowing with burners, kettles, and the quiet warmth of a kitchen that never really cools down.
About The Old Stove
The stove has stood at the center of home life for generations, a cast-iron range that radiated heat into cold mornings, a gas burner turned low under a pot of Sunday gravy, the kettle beginning its slow, building whistle. Learning to cook meant learning to listen: to the hiss of a skillet, the rattle of a lid, the particular sigh of steam escaping from something almost ready. Even the smallest details, the pilot light's blue needle of flame, the worn black dial, the trivet set out for a hot pot, held their own quiet ceremony.
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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