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The Open Road

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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

TURNPIKE
America's first turnpike opened in Pennsylvania in 1794, charging travelers a toll to use its smooth, graded surface, a luxury compared to the muddy roads of the time.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BILLBOARD
The classic Burma-Shave roadside signs, introduced in 1926, became beloved American landmarks, a series of small boards spaced along the highway, each carrying one line of a rhyming jingle.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DINER
The roadside diner traces its roots to horse-drawn lunch wagons of the 1870s in Providence, Rhode Island, evolving into the gleaming chrome-and-neon icons that still dot American highways today.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HORIZON
On the flat stretches of the Great Plains, the horizon sits a clean 3 miles away at eye level, making it the ultimate symbol of the open road's endless promise.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Open Road: a free large-print word search

Open road word search, free and large-print. Chase the horizon across sun-baked asphalt, roadside diners, and miles of wide-open sky.

About The Open Road

A particular kind of freedom only comes when the highway unspools ahead of you, the radio finds a good song, and the next town is just a dot on the map. Roadside diners, hand-painted billboards, and the slow drift of mile markers are the true landmarks of the American road trip. Crossing the plains on old Route 66 or winding through mountain switchbacks, the open road has always promised that the best part of the trip is the trip itself.

How to play

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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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    Choose 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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