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
- LEVITTOWN
- William Levitt's first mass-produced suburb on Long Island was completed in 1951, housing more than 17,000 families on land that had been farmland just years before.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CRABGRASS
- The suburban lawn became a near-obsession in the 1950s, so much so that the first edition of a famous lawn-care manual was devoted almost entirely to defeating crabgrass.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CARPORT
- The open-sided carport, cheaper and breezier than a full garage, became a signature feature of the low-slung ranch houses that spread across the Sunbelt through the 1950s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CHROME
- Chrome was everywhere in the 1950s home: on kitchen appliance handles, dinette chair legs, and of course on the sweeping tail-fin bumpers of the family car parked out front.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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1950s suburban dream, free & large-print. New-laid lawns, the smell of barbecue smoke, and a gleaming station wagon in every driveway.
About Suburban Dream
After the Second World War, American families moved outward in their millions, out of the cities and into freshly bulldozed subdivisions where the streets smelled of new timber and wet concrete. Developers like William Levitt turned potato fields into instant neighbourhoods almost overnight, offering young families a patch of lawn, a modern kitchen, and a mortgage they could actually afford. It was a world of pastel refrigerators, rotary lawnmowers on Saturday mornings, and the particular pride of a freshly painted picket fence standing white and straight in the summer sun.
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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