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The Fabulous Fifties
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Fifties Toys & Crazes

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A few of the words

HULAHOOP
Wham-O sold around 25 million hula hoops in just four months after launching the toy in 1958, one of the fastest-selling crazes in history.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FRISBEE
The Frisbee also launched through Wham-O in 1957, inspired by the pie tins of the Frisbie Baking Company of Connecticut, which students had been tossing for years.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CROCKETT
Davy Crockett, the 1954 Disney television series, ignited a coonskin cap craze so fierce that genuine raccoon fur was briefly in short supply across America.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SLINKY
Richard James invented the Slinky in 1943 when a tension spring fell off his workbench and kept going, by the mid-1950s it had become one of the best-loved toys in the world.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Fifties Toys & Crazes, free and large-print. Hula hoops spinning on every lawn, coonskin caps on every head, and a Frisbee sailing across a golden afternoon.

About Fifties Toys & Crazes

The 1950s playground was a place of glorious invention, a hula hoop could keep fifty million children spinning for weeks, a tin cap gun could turn a quiet garden into the Wild West, and a Slinky tumbling down the stairs felt almost like magic. Toy shops filled their windows with Frisbees, yo-yos, and packs of Topps trading cards, while television brought Davy Crockett to life and sent children clamouring for coonskin caps. It was an era when a simple disc of plastic or a coil of steel could become the most coveted object in the neighbourhood.

How to play

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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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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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