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Roaring Nightlife

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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

SPEAKEASY
The name came from the instruction to 'speak easy', keep your voice down and your whereabouts secret. New York alone is estimated to have had over 30,000 by the mid-1920s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SHIMMY
The shimmy was a shoulder-shaking dance that scandalised polite society and became a signature move of the flapper generation, irresistible on a crowded dance floor.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CHARLESTON
Named after Charleston, South Carolina, this high-kicking, heel-flicking dance swept the world after its Broadway debut in 1923 and never really left the dance floor.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BOOTLEG
The term 'bootlegger' dates back to the 1880s, when smugglers concealed flasks inside their boot tops, a trick that found renewed purpose the moment Prohibition began in 1920.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Roaring Twenties nightlife word search

Roaring Nightlife: a free large-print word search

Roaring Twenties nightlife word search, free and large-print. Step inside a smoky speakeasy, hear the jazz, and find the words hidden in the dark.

About Roaring Nightlife

When Prohibition locked the front door, the party simply moved downstairs. Speakeasies bloomed in basements and back rooms across America, lit by low lamps and loud with the trumpet and the drum. Flappers in satin and pearls packed the dance floors, doing the Charleston until the small hours while the city hummed with a restless, glittering energy that no law could quite snuff out.

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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    Choose 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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