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
- LIFELINE
- On Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, contestants could use a lifeline, phone a friend, ask the audience, or go fifty-fifty, to survive a question they couldn't crack alone.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PODIUM
- Game show podiums evolved from simple standing lecterns into sleek, backlit consoles fitted with buzzers, score displays, and microphones, a small stage within the stage.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BUZZER
- The earliest TV quiz shows used handheld bells before the now-iconic electronic buzzer became the sound synonymous with a correct, or heartbreakingly wrong, answer.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- JACKPOT
- The word jackpot traces back to a 19th-century poker term for a pot that keeps building until someone holds a strong enough hand, a fitting ancestor for every grand prize on television.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Quiz Master word search
The Quiz Master: a free large-print word search
The Quiz Master, a free, large-print word search set in the world of podiums, buzzers, and perfectly timed questions.
About The Quiz Master
The quiz master stands center stage, calm, unhurried, card in hand, while contestants lean forward, fingers hovering over the buzzer. Every question is a small drama: the pause before the answer, the half-held breath in the studio audience, the scoreboard clicking upward one hard-won point at a time. From black-and-white panel shows to prime-time spectacles with swelling orchestras, the format has always been the same elegant contest, knowledge against the clock, and the host holding all the answers.
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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