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
- INSULIN
- Insulin was first used to treat a human patient in January 1922, saving the life of a 14-year-old boy in Toronto, one of medicine's most dramatic turning points.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BUBBLEGUM
- Bubble gum was invented in 1928 by Walter Diemer, an accountant at the Fleer Chewing Gum Company. It was pink simply because that was the only food colouring he had to hand.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TALKIES
- The first feature-length talkie, The Jazz Singer, astonished cinema audiences in 1927, and within two years silent films had all but vanished from screens.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PENICILLIN
- Alexander Fleming noticed that a stray mould had killed bacteria on a petri dish in his London laboratory in 1928, a famously accidental discovery that would eventually save hundreds of millions of lives.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Twenties Firsts word search
Twenties Firsts: a free large-print word search
Twenties Firsts, a free, large-print word search celebrating the brilliant inventions born in a single, extraordinary decade.
About Twenties Firsts
The 1920s crackled with invention. In living rooms across America, voices floated in from nowhere over broadcast radio; on city streets, neon signs blazed their first electric colours against the night. Laboratories, kitchens, and garages alike were busy changing everyday life, from the medicine cabinet to the breakfast table, in ways that still shape the world today.
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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