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Costumes

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WITCH
The pointed hat and broomstick became the defining witch image largely through 19th-century American illustrations and storybooks.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
VAMPIRE
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula fixed the cape-and-fangs vampire look that Halloween costumes have echoed ever since.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SKELETON
Glow-in-the-dark skeleton suits became a Halloween staple after phosphorescent fabric became widely available in the mid-20th century.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DISGUISE
The word disguise traces back through Old French to a root meaning 'to change one's appearance', exactly the spirit of Halloween night.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Halloween costumes word search, free and playable online the moment you land here. Witch is in there somewhere, and so is pirate.

About Costumes

Halloween night turns the whole neighborhood into a moving parade of invention, a sheet-white ghost drifting past the porch light, a tiny pirate rattling a plastic sword, a witch's pointed silhouette against a harvest moon. The right costume carries its own magic: slip on the cloak, pull down the mask, and for one night you are entirely someone else. It's a tradition as old as the holiday itself, rooted in the idea that on this particular night, the line between worlds, and identities, grows beautifully thin.

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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