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Fairy Tales & Fables

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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

FABLE
Aesop's fables, tales of animals whose choices teach a lesson, were being collected and retold as far back as the 6th century BC in ancient Greece.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DRAGON
In Western fairy tales the dragon guards the castle and must be slain; in Chinese folklore the dragon is a benevolent, rain-bringing creature of imperial power, two very different beasts sharing one name.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CURSE
The wicked fairy's curse is a cornerstone of the classic tale: Sleeping Beauty's enchanted sleep and Rumpelstiltskin's bargain both turn on a doom spoken aloud and a clever reversal to undo it.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BEAST
Beauty and the Beast traces its written roots to an 18th-century French story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in 1740, though similar transformation tales are far older.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Fairy Tales & Fables

Every culture on earth has told stories of clever peasants and sleeping princesses, of beasts with hidden hearts and wolves with silver tongues. The fable sharpens its lesson to a fine point, a tortoise crossing a finish line, a crow dropping stones into a pitcher, while the fairy tale opens wide into wonder, where a single wish can shatter a curse or seal one forever. These stories shaped the moral imagination of childhood and never quite let go.

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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