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Chocolate Gelt

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GELT
Gelt comes from the Yiddish and German word for money. Giving gelt to children during Hanukkah is a tradition recorded as far back as the 17th century in Eastern Europe.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DREIDEL
The four-sided spinning top gives the gelt game its stakes. Each Hebrew letter on its faces, nun, gimel, hey, shin, tells a player to take nothing, take all, take half, or put one in.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FOIL
The glittering gold and silver foil wrapping that makes chocolate gelt so festive is a deliberate nod to real coins, and it makes the prize pile look every bit as rich as a treasure chest.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
POUCH
Chocolate gelt is classically sold and gifted in small net or mesh pouches, the coins tumbling together inside, ready to be stacked, counted, and inevitably eaten before the game ends.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Hanukkah chocolate gelt word search, playable online right now. Those gold-foil coins and dreidel winnings are hiding in the grid.

About Chocolate Gelt

Every Hanukkah, a familiar rustling sound fills the room, small mesh pouches and foil-wrapped chocolate coins changing hands around the dreidel game. Gelt, the Yiddish word for money, has been tied to Hanukkah celebrations for centuries, first as real coins given to children and teachers, later as the chocolate imitations wrapped in gleaming gold or silver foil that became a beloved tradition across American Jewish households. When the dreidel lands on gimel, the whole pot is yours, and if the pot happens to be piled with chocolate coins, winning has never tasted sweeter.

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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 color on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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