PATHWORDS WORD SEARCH EXTREME Object: Use the Colored Puzzle Pieces to Cover All the Letters Printed on Your Challenge Card

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Instructions and Solutions PATHWORDS WORD SEARCH EXTREME Object: Use the colored Puzzle Pieces to cover all the letters printed on your challenge card. Each puzzle piece must cover a single word that can be read forward or backward (not scrambled) and no blank spaces can appear under a Puzzle Piece. ThinkFun’s Brain Fitness games are designed as a fun way to help you exercise your Setup: brain. The 80 challenges will stretch your mental muscles, strengthening speed, focus, and memory. We recommend that you start with the beginner level and work 1. Select a challenge from the challenge booklet. through the challenges progressively. Just 15 minutes of play a day will reduce stress 2. Select the required Puzzle Pieces as shown on the right side of each and provide a good brain workout. You’re on your way to a healthier brain! challenge card: For word search lovers who want a little extra brain workout, this is the game for you! – Select only the Puzzle Pieces shown. In this amalgamation of polyominoes and word search, players select a challenge and then place the pieces onto the challenge so that the letters under each piece spell a – All Puzzle Pieces are used. word either forward or backward. Not only will this game give your vocabulary a run for its money, it will strengthen your visual perception and reasoning skills. ??? – The number of question marks equals the number of pieces you need to use but you will have to decide which pieces they are! Includes: • 80 Challenges • 8 Puzzle Pieces • Instructions & Solutions

2 3 Steps To Play: ACCEPTABLE WORDS: 1. Place the colored Puzzle Pieces on the challenge so the letters under each PathWords® challenges use only words that can be found in a standard Puzzle Piece spell a single, complete word when read forward or backward. English dictionary. Abbreviations, prefixes or suffixes are not used, nor are For a correct solution: words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe, nor are proper nouns that require a capital letter. a. Words covered correctly by a Puzzle Piece will not be scrambled. b. Puzzle Pieces must be entirely within the challenge boundary. About the Inventor: c. All letters on the challenge must be covered by Puzzle Pieces. Derrick Niederman has been creating word and number puzzles for more than thirty years. His first crossword puzzle was published by the New York d. No portion of a Puzzle Piece can cover an empty spot. Times in 1981, the same year he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. e. When an icon is shown on the grid, use the word that represents the Dozens of Niederman’s crossword puzzles have been published in the Times icon to make up a word. For example, “B”, “R” and “&” can be combined and other leading publications. Niederman has published several volumes of to make the word “BRAND”. Be careful with challenge 80, we’ve made it math puzzles and is the author of the recreational mathematics book Number especially tricky! Freak as well as the co-author of the quantitative reasoning classic, What the Example: CHALLENGE CHALLENGE Numbers Say. Niederman is also the creator of the geometric puzzle 36 Cube, introduced by ThinkFun in 2008. OE OG L D OE OG L D Z TM AR AO RR T Z TM AR AO RR T E BB RU EG AI H E BB RU EG AI H Challenge Developement By: Y S HG TN Y S HG TN Derrick Niederman and Tyler Somer

Blank challenge Correctly solved challenge 2. When every letter is covered and all colored pieces spell a word, YOU WIN! 4 5 Solutions – Beginner

1 5 9 11 15 19 COP APRON AGE ALPHA FIFE CHIC EACH RARE DEBUT MET FIFTH WHICH LIMB THICK STIR PLAY FIFTY WITCH PLANT SIGHT SWAN TORE FILTH WITH WRECK FLUFF 2 6 10 BLOOM CHICK FALL BONGO CHUCK FILM LOGO CLICK ILL 12 16 20 MOON CLUCK LLAMA LATEX COWBELL CUMIN PLATE COWBOY HUMID SPLAT COWHIDE TULIP COWLICK TUNIC 3 7 SCOWL UNIT DEAN CIVIC HUM CIVIL 13 17 LACE INK CONIC LIPS LICIT MIMIC GOING NOW (WON) SILK ICON TEAL IGLOO TERSE LOGIC

4 8 14 18 BOX ADULT BONY ERR FLAME FAULT BOY HURRY JAZZY GOLD HOBBY MARRY ORDER HAUL HOLLY MYRRH LAUGH ONLY ROAR RUMOR

6 7 Solutions – Intermediate

21 24 27 29 CLIP CITY ACORN DAIS EMU ICY CORK MAPLE GRAM IMPLY KOALA MAX NURSE LILY LOCAL YOGA LYRIC OAK ROAN

22 25 HERON ARMY RAID LAIR (RIAL) 28 30 TYPE GLOVE ABBEY BUCKEYE WASTE VAN BARB HOCKEY BULB HOKEY EBB SOCKEYE LOBBY TURKEY TABBY TURNKEY 23 26 BOOST BUY OOPS DUTY SHOO JUMPY ZOO JURY RUMMY TRULY

8 9 Solutions – Intermediate

31 34 37 39 BAYOU BOW ALLAY ACHE BERET GENE APPLY ACME SEA OXEN AWRY ALE THING PIANO HAPPY CACHE KAYAK CAMEL YAWN PEACH PLACE

32 35 COUCH DUET COUGH ILK 38 40 GHOUL MASH EKE INN GOUT QUITE EWER KNOWN LOUT LEVEL NOON YOU LEVER (REVEL) NOUN YOUTH WEEK ONION UNION

33 36 APPLE POOR PAPER POT (TOP) PIPE ROTOR PUPA SORT PUPIL SPORT UPPER STOOP TORSO TROOP

10 11 Solutions – Advanced

41 44 47 49 ALPHABET AMBER BULLDOG GAMMA AMUSED MAMBA CATALOG MAGMA APHID MAMBO CATHODE MAMA AXIOM MERE DOGMA MANNA DETAILS MOM PLACATE PAPAL EMPIRE MORE SCATHE SAGA RHODIUM TOCCATA STAUNCH

42 45 48 50 ADD AWE APEX ISSUE DADO HELIX ERASE MESS DIODE ONCE PLAID MISS ODDS PLOT TILE SENSE SIDED SINUS UDDER SUM

43 46 LOWER CYCLE MODEL DENY MOLAR EDDY OLIVE ENEMY ZEBRA RHYME RYE

12 13 Solutions – Advanced

51 54 57 59 EGO GURU AVID (DIVA) BISHOPRIC ELOPE LUAU LIVE (EVIL) CROOKED GEODE LUG LIVID KNIGHTHOOD OOZE USURP VALID QUEENLY OZONE USURY VALVE SPAWNING PEKOE VIE STRIKING

52 55 BUGLE CALF BULGE DEMUR 58 60 CLUE EBONY AUK ADVANCE DUEL HIRE KICK CARAVAN EDUCE USE KINK CAREFUL FUGUE WHISK KIOSK DISCARD KNACK SCARCE SKINK VANITY SKUNK 53 56 BUD (DUB) AGENT JUNCO BLOCK ROUGE HAT STUCK IDYLL INTO MUSE SATIN VENUE

14 15 Solutions – Expert

61 64 67 69 ANGER AUDIO AGONY AROMA ARTS DART BAIL BURRO CREAK DUNCE BLADE LEIS FOLIO PANEL BRAVE MOCHA OASES ROBOT PALE TORTE ODD RUG THIN SLEPT ZONED WAXEN

62 65 68 70 TOOTH COAT ACE AGAIN TOT HEATH ERODE AGING TOUT JOUST EXILE AIM TROT (TORT) MOVIE FILED ALIAS TRUTH OWL FRANK ALMS TUTOR PUMA REAL LILAC SPATE REEL (LEER) MAGIC TOWER STAIN SLIM

63 66 ALLOT APACE AORTA AQUA BUNK CUES CARGO QUEST ION QUIRE LAVA RUE SQUID TROLL

16 17 Solutions – Expert

71 74 77 79 ACRE AIL ABACI LET BALSA BREED ATONE LODESTAR BAY CRUSH IRKS MUSTARD BEIGE ELAN ITCH PODIA BROOM LYRE KRAIT RINK GNAWS PYLON QUAIL SCORE IDOL UNZIP QUOTE STARTING URGED STY STARTLED

72 75 78 80 ASKEW ADAGE AWAY CHARTER CRY HEX CURIO FRANC EXERT LORE INFER GENIE OUTDO NYLON LOSER POSTAGE RADII TOGA OUCH RESET RIND TRACE TAX UNBUCKLE TRADE VERVE UPSTAGED WALL VINYL WHO

73 76 CHIEF ANDANTE CHIVE BANDSTAND IMPEL HANDBAG ISLE HANDLER KNIFE HANDOUT PIER IBEX TIE IRON YIELD PANDA

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