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
- PROPOLIS
- Bees seal every gap in the hive with propolis, a resinous mixture gathered from tree buds that acts as a natural antimicrobial varnish.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ROYAL
- Royal jelly is the rich secretion fed exclusively to a developing queen; the same egg that becomes a worker will become a queen if her diet changes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SWARM
- When a colony swarms, the old queen leaves with roughly half the workers, a spectacular mid-air cloud that is the hive's way of reproducing itself.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BROOD
- The brood, eggs, larvae, and pupae, is kept in the warm heart of the comb, where worker bees regulate the temperature to a steady 95 °F.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Beehive word search, and it won't cost you a thing. Comb, wax, honey, the quiet hum of ten thousand wings.
About The Beehive
Inside a hive, geometry reigns. Worker bees build each six-sided cell to a precision that engineers still marvel at, filling them with cured nectar or carefully tended brood. The queen moves through it all in a slow, purposeful procession, attended, fed, and never still for long. In the warmth of the cluster, winter becomes something the colony simply waits out together.
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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