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
- SMOKESTACK
- Tall brick smokestacks became the skyline of industrial cities, some mill stacks in Manchester rose over 300 feet to push soot above the rooftops and the workers below.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SPINDLE
- Richard Arkwright's water-powered spinning frame, patented in 1769, allowed a single worker to tend dozens of spindles at once, transforming cotton textile output almost overnight.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CANAL
- Before the railways arrived, an ambitious network of canals, over 4,000 miles of them in Britain by the early 1800s, carried heavy coal and iron by barge at a fraction of the road haulage cost.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- COKE
- Abraham Darby first smelted iron with coke rather than charcoal at Coalbrookdale in 1709, a quiet breakthrough that eventually freed iron production from the limits of woodland and changed industry forever.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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About The Industrial Age
In the late 18th century the landscape of Britain, and soon the world, was remade by fire and iron. Rivers that once powered simple grain mills now drove cotton spindles by the thousands, while coal-fired furnaces lit the night sky above foundry towns with an orange glow. The locomotive tied it all together, hauling raw materials in and finished goods out, and turning a world of slow distances into something startlingly, irreversibly new.
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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