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
- MARQUEE
- Theater marquees became a fixture of American Main Streets in the 1910s and 1920s, when silent-film houses sprouted in towns of nearly every size. The bold lettered signs out front were designed to be read from a moving car, or a slow stroll.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BARBERSHOP
- The red-and-white rotating pole outside a barbershop is one of America's most recognized street symbols, with roots stretching back to medieval Europe, where barbers also performed minor surgery, the red representing blood and the white representing bandages.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BANDSTAND
- Open-air bandstands became a beloved feature of small-town Main Streets and town squares during the late 1800s, when community band concerts on warm summer evenings were a primary form of public entertainment.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- GAZEBO
- The word 'gazebo' has been part of the American landscape vocabulary since at least the mid-18th century, and the roofed, open-sided structures became a centerpiece of town greens and courthouse squares across the country.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Main Street word search, free and large-print. Awnings, lampposts, a marquee glowing at dusk, everything that makes a little town feel like home.
About Main Street
Every small town has one: a Main Street where the barbershop pole still spins, the diner specials are chalked on a board, and the clock tower tells the same dependable time it always has. Storefronts lean shoulder to shoulder, their awnings striped in faded canvas, casting cool shadows over the sidewalk on a summer afternoon. A slow stroll from one end to the other might take ten minutes, but somehow it always takes longer, there's a bench to rest on, a neighbor to greet, and a marquee up ahead worth stopping to read.
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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