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
- POSTMARK
- A postmark is both a date and a place, the tiny ink circle that tells you exactly where and when a letter entered the mail stream, sometimes the only record a family had of a distant relative's whereabouts.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- LEDGER
- The store ledger tracked credit accounts for whole families across seasons, written in careful columns by hand, some rural ledgers from the 1800s survive today as vivid records of everyday life.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- INKWELL
- A shared inkwell sat at the counter so customers could address envelopes on the spot, and a careful postmaster refilled it without being asked, a small, reliable act of hospitality.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CANCEL
- Canceling a stamp, drawing lines or pressing an ink die across it, prevented reuse and became an art form; elaborate hand-cancels from 19th-century American post offices are prized by collectors today.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Post Office Window: a free large-print word search
General store post office word search, free and large-print. Brass boxes, ink stamps, and the quiet weight of a bundle passed across a wooden counter.
About The Post Office Window
In small towns across America, the general store and the post office were often one and the same, a single room where neighbors collected their mail, settled their accounts, and traded the news of the week. The postmaster might also be the storekeeper, keeping the ledger on one side of the counter and the ink pad and canceling stamp on the other. Letters arrived tied in string, bundles were weighed on a brass scale, and the brass-fitted mailboxes lining the wall gave every family a small, dignified square of their own.
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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