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In 2022, word-finding challenges have taken the world of puzzles and crossword puzzles by storm. Such brainwashers have existed for years, from the decades-old game of Bulls and Cows, via the Mastermind board game of the 1970s, to the recent Word Rage. Everyone has a simple challenge to break code: use a series of puzzles to identify a series of four or five letters, numbers or colors, and then be told after each guess whether each letter, number or color is a) part of the series and b) in the correct position.
We are pleased to introduce our own word search game, PlusWord, which combines the challenge of a code-breaking puzzle with the content of our well-known crossword puzzles. PlusWord is easy and fast to play, and consists of a thumbnail version of our Quick Crossword Puzzle, in which some squares are colored; the letters in those shaded boxes let you work out the additional five-letter PlusWord.
The initial concept for the game originated almost two decades ago, in the form of a cryptic crossword puzzle put together for a few friends, in which a group of cells in the middle of the grid acted as a further puzzle in which ‘ led a number of stained cells. to a Word-style challenge.