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The Moon

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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

GIBBOUS
A gibbous moon, more than half lit but not yet full, comes from the Latin 'gibbosus,' meaning humped. It's the phase most people see and can't quite name.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MARE
The broad dark plains on the Moon's surface were named 'maria' (seas) by 17th-century astronomers who mistook them for actual bodies of water. Mare Tranquillitatis, the Sea of Tranquility, is where Apollo 11 landed in 1969.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CRESCENT
The crescent phase appears just after a new moon or just before, a slender silver sliver that has guided sailors, poets, and calendar-makers across every culture on Earth.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ECLIPSE
A total lunar eclipse turns the Moon a deep copper-red as Earth's shadow falls across it, a color sometimes called a 'blood moon,' caused by sunlight bending through Earth's atmosphere.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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the moon word search

The Moon: a free online word search

The Moon word search is playable online, no sign-up needed. Just the quiet pull of craters, phases, and that particular silver light.

About The Moon

The Moon has been humanity's most intimate companion in the night sky, close enough to show a face, distant enough to stay mysterious. Its phases have marked calendars for thousands of years, from the slim crescent low on the horizon to the swollen fullness of a harvest moon flooding fields with pale silver light. The dark plains the ancients called maria, and the craters carved by long-ago collisions, make every clear night an invitation to simply look up.

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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