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Seventies Toys & Games

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PONG
Atari's Pong, released in 1972, is widely credited as the game that brought video gaming into the living room for the very first time.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SPIROGRAPH
Spirograph was invented by British engineer Denys Fisher, who first exhibited it at the 1965 Nuremberg Toy Fair before it conquered playrooms worldwide through the 1970s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CLACKERS
Clackers — two hard acrylic balls on a string swung until they cracked together — were so enthusiastically hazardous that several countries moved to ban them during the 1970s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MASTERMIND
The code-breaking board game Mastermind was invented in 1970 by Israeli postmaster Mordecai Meirowitz and sold over 50 million copies in its first decade.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Seventies toys & games word search — free and large-print. Bounce back to space hoppers, Pong, Clackers, and the joyful clutter of a 1970s playroom.

About Nostalgia & Eras

The 1970s playroom had a particular kind of magic — the rubbery tang of a space hopper, the satisfying clack of plastic beads, the glow of the very first home video game flickering on a television set. Toy shops were treasure caves of bright injection-moulded plastic, balsa-wood gliders, and die-cast metal, all promising impossible adventures before teatime. Whether you were spinning a Spirograph into perfect hypnotic circles or plotting your next move in Mastermind, the decade gave children a playtime unlike any before or since.

How to play

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    Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
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    It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
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    Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.

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