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Plains & Deserts

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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

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 roaming the wide-open American landscape: canyon walls, prairie wind, butte shadow, and silent dunes.

About Plains & Deserts

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

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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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