Buried Words: Word Search

Buried Words is a word search game with a definition for every word and a mystery word hidden in every grid. Play in English or French: choose the language of the grids in your profile. A grid of letters hides a list of words, each with its definition right below it: you know what you are looking for. Once every word is found, the letters left over make the mystery word. You only get its definition to write it. THE GRIDS • Two sizes, chosen before each grid: a small grid of 10 × 10 letters, or a large one of 15 × 24 hiding many more words. • Words read in a straight line, in all 8 directions: across, down or diagonally, forwards or backwards. They may cross. • Every word has at least 4 letters. The grid is written in capitals without accents: "éclair" reads ECLAIR. • Every grid is new, dealt for you when you start it. THE GAME • Slide your finger from the first letter of a word to the last, or from the last to the first: the word is circled in color and checked off the list. • The grid stays still; only the list of words scrolls, each word with its definition. • Stuck? Each grid gives you hints: a hint lights up the first letter of a word to find, then, once every word is found, writes in a letter of the mystery word. Once the grid's own are used, a hint costs a grid, after you confirm it. • On a phone, a large grid fills the screen: the list of words slides up over it with a swipe, and back down to give you the grid. On a tablet, the list stays beside the grid. THE MYSTERY WORD • Once every word is found, the letters left over light up: they make the mystery word, scrambled. • You only get its definition and its number of letters: type it on the game's keyboard. A small grid hides a common word, a large one a longer answer, a common word or phrase. • As many tries as you like, with no penalty. • At the end: the mystery word with its full definition, the whole grid and all its words with their definitions. AT YOUR OWN PACE • No timer: one game at a time, which you leave and resume whenever you like, even on another device. • No ads, no notifications. YOUR GRIDS • You start with a ration of grids, which refills every day the first time you open the game: starting a grid draws on it, at the price home shows for its size; resuming the grid in progress costs nothing. • Not enough grids left? Come back the next day. • To play more, optional purchases, each paid once, no subscription: a booklet of 50 or 150 grids, to finish at your own pace, with no expiry date; or the Double Ration, twice as many grids a day and twice as many in reserve, for good. • The shop opens from your profile, or when you have no grid left. GOOD TO KNOW • Sign in with your Google or Apple account. • An Internet connection is needed to start a grid, write the mystery word and take a hint, paid or not: the game's server deals every grid and keeps your game on your account. Without a network, you keep finding words; they are sent as soon as the connection is back. • You can delete your account from your profile. Definitions from Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org) and the French Wiktionary (fr.wiktionary.org), the work of their contributors, extracted via kaikki.org — CC BY-SA 4.0 license. English word list derived from SCOWL, Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson.

• Smoother tracing: every cell under your finger is picked up. • Past the free hints, a hint now asks you to confirm before it uses up a grid. • Sound now stops when the app goes to the background. • The update screen now appears whenever a new version is required. • Offensive or generic player names are no longer accepted.