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
- SHAVE
- Burma-Shave's roadside poems ran from 1925 to 1963, placing a sequence of small red signs a hundred feet apart so drivers read one rhyming line at a time, a jingle strung along the shoulder of the road.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- COPYWRITER
- The copywriter's job was brutal economy: a billboard headline had to land in roughly three seconds, the time a passing driver's gaze could spare.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TURNPIKE
- America's toll turnpikes, like the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which opened in 1940, became prime billboard corridors, funneling thousands of cars past the same painted panel day after day.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- LETTERING
- Before vinyl printing, every billboard was hand-lettered by a sign painter, a skilled trade that blended calligraphy, color theory, and the ability to work on scaffolding thirty feet in the air.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Roadside Billboard: a free large-print word search
Roadside billboard word search, free and large-print. Relive the painted signs, witty slogans, and neon glow that lined every American highway.
About The Roadside Billboard
Long before the interstate bypass, the American road was a gallery. Towering billboards rose from cornfields and desert flats, selling soap, cigarettes, and motor oil in a headline you had to read at sixty miles an hour. The best copywriters of the mid-century knew that a driver's eye stays for only a blink, so every letter was oversized, every color punchy, and every slogan sharp enough to echo in the car for the next fifty miles.
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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