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
- VALVES
- Early radio sets ran on glass vacuum valves, called tubes in the US, that had to warm up for a minute or two before any sound emerged, lending the ritual of switching on the set a quiet, almost ceremonial patience.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CONSOLE
- The floor-standing console radio reached peak popularity in America through the 1930s and 1940s, with makers like Zenith and RCA designing cabinets tall enough to double as a room's centerpiece.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SERIAL
- Daytime serials, so tightly linked to their soap-brand sponsors that they became known as soap operas, kept millions of listeners returning each weekday from the early 1930s onward.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CROONER
- Crooners like Bing Crosby thrived on radio because the microphone rewarded soft, intimate singing, a style that would have been lost in a theater but felt like a whisper directly in the listener's ear.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Round the Radio: a free large-print word search
Old-time radio word search, free and large-print, where the warm dial glow and a crooner's voice held a whole family still.
About Round the Radio
Before television, the radio console was the largest, most beloved piece of furniture in the parlor, a cathedral-shaped cabinet of polished walnut or mahogany with a softly lit tuning dial that glowed amber in a darkened room. Families pulled their chairs close on winter evenings to catch the serial dramas, comedy hours, and big-band broadcasts that crackled in over the airwaves. The announcer's voice, the sponsor's jingle, the sudden rush of static when a storm rolled through, all of it was the texture of home.
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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