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
- COCONUT
- Split coconut shells clapped rhythmically in a sandbox were the standard radio trick for horse hoofbeats, simple, reliable, and remarkably convincing through a speaker.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CELLOPHANE
- Crinkled slowly near a microphone, a sheet of cellophane produced a remarkably convincing fire crackle, one of the most beloved tricks in the sound effects toolkit.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- FOLEY
- Jack Foley pioneered synchronized sound effects for film at Universal in the late 1920s, and his name became the enduring term for the craft on both stage and screen.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- THUNDER
- A large, thin sheet of metal, sometimes called a thunder sheet, was shaken or struck to produce rolling thunder, a staple of both radio studios and live theater.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Sound Effects Man: a free large-print word search
Old-time radio sound effects word search, free and large-print. Coconut shells, creaking doors, and thunder sheets conjured whole worlds from a bare studio floor.
About The Sound Effects Man
Before television, the radio drama was the most vivid entertainment in the home, and the sound effects man was its quiet magician. He stood just off-microphone with a tray of props: half coconut shells clapped together for a galloping horse, a sheet of thin metal rippled slowly for distant thunder, loose gravel walked through by hand to suggest boots on a path. Audiences heard a full world and never once questioned it, because the craft was that good.
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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