4/16/2012

5 Techniques to Creating a Customized Word Search Puzzle Which Has Answer Key

By Zeta C Donairee


Steps to making a personalized word search puzzle with answer key include going to the "Make Your Personal Word Search" site, placing details for the puzzle, customizing your puzzle, selecting certain features, and completing your puzzle.

Word search puzzles are exciting and entertaining games that can be performed by any age. They can be used for educational purposes, to entertain your children and keep them busy, while you are trying to pass the time, or even at events. Depending on the difficulty level and size of the puzzle, there are occasions that you could really utilize some help from an answer key, like some individuals would do with a Scrabble Word Finder for their particular scrabble games. Thankfully you can create your own word search puzzle with answer key.

Head to "Make Your Own Word Search" site

On the site of 'Make Your Personal Word Search." there is a puzzle grid where you can place at most fifty four words. The grid is made up of 3 columns with eighteen boxes inside each one. While you can place as many as fifty four words, you should have a minimum of 15 of these words for your own grid.

Place details for the puzzle

In the appropriate box below the grid, place the title of your puzzle game. There are also boxes for your name and for a short description of your puzzle that you may or may not fill based on your own personal desire.

Personalize your puzzle

On the box for the puzzle's colour, choose among 15 unique colors. There's also a box for the colour of the background where you can choose the color that you like. Nevertheless, you may also prefer to stick with the default colors, which is white for the background and red for the letters. Then, choose the font sizes for the puzzle grid as well as the word list. If you want to change the style of the font from "nothing unique" to something in particular, you may also do so by browsing through the number of choices. Next, type in the size of the PDF page and also the PDF font style according to the size of your paper and your particular desires. You also have an option if you want all the letters to be in uppercase, lowercase, or how you've the words entered.

Pick certain features

Determine and key in the number of rows and columns that you wish the puzzle to have, as well as the directions for the words such as forward/backward and up/down only, reverse or diagonal directions only, or let the terms go in all directions. After those choices, there are check boxes which you can choose for certain specific features that include sort word list, terms at the end of the page, amount of columns for the words at the page's bottom level, grid lines, lacking vowel, grid coordinates on the puzzle, and also mathematics equation.

Finish your puzzle

Once you have selected the specific details and features of your puzzle game, you may want to review them to be sure that they match what you want. Then, at the bottom of the page you will see a button with the terms "Make Puzzle," which you will click so you can move on to the next phase and page. You will then notice what your completed puzzle appears like. Locate the "Printable PDF" and click on it to print out your puzzle. Print your answer key, too, by hitting "Answer key PDF."

If you are creating a puzzle for kids, just make sure that the words and difficulty level are appropriate for the children's ages.




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