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A few of the words
- ARROYO
- A dry desert streambed that can fill in minutes during a flash flood — the Spanish word for 'brook' traveled north with the Southwest's early settlers.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BADLANDS
- South Dakota's Badlands National Park preserves some of the richest Oligocene fossil beds on Earth, laid down roughly 30 million years ago.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TUMBLEWEED
- The iconic rolling tumbleweed is actually Russian thistle, a plant that arrived in South Dakota with flaxseed shipments in the 1870s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BUTTE
- A butte is a flat-topped hill narrower than a plateau — the word comes from French and entered American English through the fur-trade era of the early 1800s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Plains & Deserts: a free large-print word search
Plains & Deserts — a free, large-print word search roaming the wide-open American landscape: canyon walls, prairie wind, butte shadow, and silent dunes.
About Mind & Trivia
From the wind-combed shortgrass of the Great Plains to the sun-baked flats of the Sonoran and Mojave, America's open country stretches farther than the eye can follow. Ancient water carved the canyons and arroyos; wind shaped the dunes and left the buttes standing like red sentinels above the valley floor. Out here the sky is the biggest thing on the map, and the silence has a texture all its own.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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