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Stamp Collecting

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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

PERFORATE
The tiny holes separating stamps from a sheet are called perforations, their spacing, measured in teeth per 2 cm, is recorded as the 'perf gauge' and can be the key difference between a common stamp and a rare one.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
WATERMARK
Watermarks were pressed into stamp paper during manufacture as a security measure. Collectors use a watermark fluid or detector tray to reveal them, since the same design printed on two different watermarked papers can have very different values.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PHILATELY
The word philately was coined in 1864 by French collector Georges Herpin, combining Greek roots meaning 'love of exemption from tax', a nod to the prepaid postage a stamp represents.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HINGE
A stamp hinge is a small folded strip of glassine used to mount stamps in an album. Unused (mint) stamps with original gum are far more desirable if they have never been hinged.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Stamp collecting word search, free and playable online right now. Leaf through the album, press a hinge, and find every mark that makes a stamp worth saving.

About Stamp Collecting

A single stamp holds more history than it seems, a cancellation ink that once marked a letter's journey across a continent, a watermark pressed into the paper before the design was ever engraved. Collectors parse the tiniest details: the spacing of perforations, the shade of an overprint, the faint ghost of a plate number in the margin. Albums fill slowly and satisfyingly, each mount and hinge a small act of preservation.

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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