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
- KITTY
- Kitty Hawk, North Carolina was chosen partly for its steady winds and soft sand dunes, ideal for glider experiments and forgiving crash landings.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DAYTON
- The Wright Cycle Company in Dayton, Ohio gave the brothers a workshop, steady income, and the mechanical intuition that made their engine and propeller designs possible.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PROPELLER
- Orville and Wilbur treated the propeller as a rotating wing, applying the same lift-and-drag thinking, a leap in logic that set their design apart from rivals.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- GLIDER
- Before the Flyer, the brothers made over 700 glider flights at Kitty Hawk between 1900 and 1902, quietly solving the puzzle of control in the air.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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About The Wright Brothers
On the morning of December 17, 1903, on a strip of windswept dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright climbed aboard a spruce-and-canvas machine and rose into a cold Atlantic headwind for twelve historic seconds. He and his brother Wilbur had spent years studying bird flight, stitching muslin over wooden frames, and testing gliders in the open air, all of it funded by a modest bicycle repair shop back home in Dayton, Ohio. The Flyer they built weighed just over 600 pounds and was steered by a hip cradle, yet it opened a door that the whole world would one day walk through.
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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