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
- VHS
- JVC introduced the VHS format in Japan in 1976, and it went on to dominate home video through the 1980s and 1990s, outselling rival formats around the world.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BETAMAX
- Sony's Betamax launched in 1975 and lost the format war to VHS by the late 1980s, despite many engineers arguing it offered a sharper picture.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CLAMSHELL
- The hinged plastic clamshell case became the rental store's signature packaging — sturdy enough to survive thousands of check-outs and still show off the cover art.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TRACKING
- Adjusting the tracking dial was a near-universal skill in the nineties — a few careful turns could rescue a snowy, rolling picture and save movie night.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Rewind the VHS: a free large-print word search
Rewind the VHS — a free, large-print puzzle evoking home-video nights of rewinding tapes, browsing rental shelves, and that satisfying click of the cassette dropping in.
About Rewind the VHS
On a Friday evening in the nineties, the ritual began at the video store — scanning wall-to-wall shelves of clamshell cases, debating which movie to bring home, and hoping the last renter had actually rewound the tape. Back home, the VCR whirred to life, the tracking lines shimmied into focus, and the room went quiet as the studio logo filled the screen. That hand-written sticker on the spine — "Be Kind, Rewind" — was a small but sincere request, a piece of the shared courtesy that made the whole neighborhood feel like one big lending library.
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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