Hard Christmas Word Search

Long Christmas words, most of them eight letters or more, hidden in every direction including backwards and diagonally, with filler letters taken from the words themselves. For adults, or children who find the ordinary one too quick.

All 29 christmas words

Each game picks 16 of these (16 on hard):

CANDLELIGHT · CAROLERS · CELEBRATION · CHESTNUTS · CHIMNEY · DECORATIONS · EVERGREEN · FESTIVITIES · FRANKINCENSE · FRUITCAKE · GARLAND · GINGERBREAD · ICICLES · MARSHMALLOW · MISTLETOE · NATIVITY · NUTCRACKER · ORNAMENTS · PEPPERMINT · POINSETTIA · REINDEER · SLEIGHBELLS · SNOWFLAKE · SNOWGLOBE · STOCKINGS · TINSEL · WASSAIL · WREATH · YULETIDE

How to play

Every word in the list is hidden in the grid, in a straight line.
Drag across a word from its first letter to its last. On a phone you can also tap the first letter, then the last.
Found words stay highlighted and are crossed off the list. Find them all to finish.
Easy puzzles only run left to right and top to bottom. Medium adds diagonals. Hard runs in all eight directions, backwards too.

Levels

Level	Grid	Words	Directions
Easy	10×10	8	across and down
Medium	12×12	12	across, down and diagonal
Hard	14×14	16	every direction, backwards too

Questions

What makes it hard?

Longer words, all eight directions, and filler letters that come from the hidden words, so there are false starts everywhere.

Can I print it?

Yes: printable hard Christmas word search, 15×15 with an answer key.

Does every word appear only once?

Yes. After the letters are filled in, every word is checked in all eight directions; a board where a word shows up twice is thrown away.

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