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Surf & Hot Rods

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A few of the words

WOODIE
The woodie wagon, a station wagon with real wood paneling, became the unofficial chariot of surf culture, roomy enough to haul longboards to the break at dawn.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PIPELINE
The Banzai Pipeline on Oahu's North Shore was already legendary by the mid-1960s, a wave so powerful and hollow it defined what serious surfers chased.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DEUCE
The 1932 Ford, known as the Deuce, was the hot-rodder's canvas of choice throughout the 1960s, its simple steel body a natural for chopping, channeling, and chrome.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
KOOKIE
"Kookie" Kookson from the TV show 77 Sunset Strip made the hair-combing, surf-slang-talking California cool kid a nationwide sensation right as the decade began.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Surf & Hot Rods, a free, large-print puzzle soaked in California sun, salt air, chrome bumpers, and the distant thunder of a perfect wave.

About Surf & Hot Rods

In the early 1960s, two worlds collided on the sun-bleached streets and beaches of Southern California: the hot-rod garages of the San Fernando Valley and the board-waxing shacks at Malibu and Huntington Beach. Kids cruised Pacific Coast Highway in chopped coupes and woodie wagons piled high with longboards, while AM radio poured out reverb-drenched guitar and those impossibly bright harmonies. It was a whole season that felt like it could last forever, bonfires after dark, baggies and bare feet, the smell of sunscreen and exhaust hanging in the warm Pacific air.

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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