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
- SALISBURY
- Salisbury steak — ground beef shaped into a patty and smothered in brown gravy — became one of the most beloved TV dinner entrées of the 1950s and '60s, named for 19th-century physician James Salisbury.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ALUMINUM
- Those iconic segmented trays were stamped from thin aluminum foil, light enough to balance on your knees and hot enough to warrant a careful first peel at the corner.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- COBBLER
- A fruit cobbler tucked into the dessert compartment was a signature of the original Swanson tray — peach or apple, bubbling just slightly at the edges when it came out of the oven.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SECTIONED
- The divided, sectioned tray was the whole point: gravy stayed with the turkey and never touched the peas, preserving the architecture of a proper dinner plate in miniature.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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About The TV Dinner
The TV dinner arrived in American homes in the early 1950s, and it changed the evening meal forever. A partitioned aluminum tray held everything in its place — turkey and gravy in one pocket, peas and corn in another, a tidy square of cobbler or brownie tucked into the corner — and the whole thing slid straight from freezer to oven. Eating in front of the set stopped being a guilty pleasure and quietly became a ritual, warm tray balanced on the lap, the glow of the screen filling the room.
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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