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The Midnight Countdown

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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

BALL
The Times Square ball made its debut on December 31, 1907, a 700-pound iron-and-wood sphere lit by 100 incandescent bulbs.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
AULD
"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish phrase meaning roughly "old long since", or times gone by, and Robert Burns published his version of the song in 1788.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CONFETTI
After each Times Square celebration, the cleanup crew collects nearly 3,000 pounds of confetti from the surrounding streets.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TWELVE
The stroke of twelve has marked the new year since ancient Rome, when the calendar day was reckoned to turn at midnight.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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New Year countdown word search

The Midnight Countdown: a free large-print word search

New Year countdown word search, free and large-print. Ten… nine… eight… the ball drops, the glasses clink, and a fresh year begins.

About The Midnight Countdown

For one electric minute every December 31st, the whole crowd leans in together, eyes on the clock, breath held, voices rising from ten all the way down to one. The Times Square ball has been dropping since 1907, descending exactly 70 feet in 60 seconds while a million people crane their necks upward into the cold. When midnight finally strikes, the horns blow, the confetti falls, and strangers cheer each other like old friends.

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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