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
- LOCKS
- The canal's locks raise and lower ships up to 85 feet, using gravity-fed chambers that fill and drain without a single pump.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PACIFIC
- Counterintuitively, the Pacific entrance of the canal sits slightly east of the Atlantic entrance, the isthmus bends in a way that surprises most maps.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TUGBOAT
- Small but mighty tugboats guide cargo ships through the canal's tight channels, where currents and crosswinds leave little room for error.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PASSAGE
- A complete transit of the canal typically takes 8 to 10 hours, compared to the weeks-long voyage around Cape Horn that ships once had to endure.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Panama Canal Opens for Business: a free large-print word search
Panama Canal word search, free & large-print. On August 14, 1914, the waterway that joined two oceans swung open, and the world shrank.
About The Panama Canal Opens for Business
On August 14, 1914, the Panama Canal opened to commercial traffic, and the first ships slipped through a narrow ribbon of water connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. What had once meant a grueling voyage around the tip of South America, nearly 8,000 extra miles, was now a passage of roughly 50 miles through jungle and stone. Locks lifted vessels up and over the Continental Divide, a feat of engineering that rewrote the map of global trade almost overnight.
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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