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The Saloon

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A few of the words

FARO
Faro was the most popular card game in the American West during the 1800s, faster and simpler than poker, it was a fixture of nearly every real and fictional frontier saloon.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BARTENDER
In classic TV Westerns like Gunsmoke, the bartender was often the longest-running supporting character, a steady presence behind the bar across hundreds of episodes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PIANO
The saloon piano, usually slightly out of tune, became one of the most recognizable sounds of the TV Western, its lively ragtime tunes a signal that trouble (or fun) was about to begin.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GUNSLINGER
The word 'gunslinger', evoking a pistol drawn in one smooth swing, became so closely tied to Western storytelling that it crossed from fiction back into American everyday speech.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Saloon word search puts you behind the swinging doors, poker chips stacked, a piano nobody's playing well. Play it online, no sign-up needed.

About The Saloon

Push through those swinging doors and the whole frontier world rushes in, the clink of glasses, the low roll of the piano, and the shuffle of cards across a felt-covered table. The TV Western saloon was equal parts refuge and flashpoint: a place where drifters warmed themselves, deals were struck over whiskey, and the sheriff's arrival could silence a room in an instant. Faro tables, wanted posters tacked to the wall, and the smell of sawdust on the floor made it the beating heart of every dusty frontier town on the small screen.

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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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