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The Castle Keep

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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

PORTCULLIS
That heavy iron or oak grating could be dropped in seconds, its name comes from the Old French for 'sliding door,' and many keeps had two, creating a deadly trap between them for any intruder who slipped through the first.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MERLON
The solid upright sections of a battlement are merlons; the gaps between them are crenels. Together they gave archers cover while still allowing them to aim, a silhouette so iconic it became the symbol of a castle the world over.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SPIRAL
The clockwise spiral stair was a deliberate defensive design: an attacker climbing upward found his sword arm pressed against the central newel, while the defender above had open swinging room.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DUNGEON
The word shares its root with 'donjon,' the French term for the great tower itself, over centuries the name slipped downward, from the lord's lofty strongroom to the dark chambers at its base.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Castle keep word search, free to play online in the stone-walled world where PORTCULLIS and BATTLEMENT hold the walls.

About The Castle Keep

At the heart of every medieval castle stood the keep, the last refuge, the lord's residence, and the most heavily defended point of all. Its walls could run ten feet thick, its stairways wound clockwise so a right-handed defender could swing his sword freely on the descent. Below lay the dungeon, often not a pit of horror but simply the lowest stone-vaulted chamber, pressed into the earth for strength and cold storage alike.

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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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