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
- MARQUEE
- The word marquee traces back to the French word for a large tent, a fitting ancestor for the grand canopy of lights that announces a show above a Broadway entrance.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PLAYBILL
- Playbill has been the iconic program of Broadway since 1884, its yellow-and-black cover becoming one of the most recognized images in American theater.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- LIMELIGHT
- Before electric spotlights, theaters used actual burning lime to create an intense white glow, and to bathe a star performer in the limelight became an expression that has never faded.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- FOOTLIGHT
- Footlights, the row of lights along the front edge of the stage, were once candles or gas flames, casting that warm, upward glow onto performers' faces that painters of the 19th century loved to capture.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Great White Way: a free large-print word search
Broadway word search, free and large-print. Lose yourself in marquee glow, velvet curtains, and the electric hush before the overture begins.
About The Great White Way
Broadway's storied stretch of Manhattan blazes with marquee lights that have announced legends for well over a century. Inside those grand theaters, every detail conspires to create the spell, the gilded balconies, the deep rumble of the orchestra pit, the charged silence just before the curtain rises. When the final note fades and the house erupts into a standing ovation, there is nothing quite like it on earth.
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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