Supernatural

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A brass lantern and candlestick stand on a wooden desk beside a folded travel blanket.

ALPHA
ANGEL
ARCHANGEL
CASTIEL
COLT
CROWLEY
DARKNESS
DEMON
DJINN
EMPTY
FUNKY TOWN
GABRIEL
GHOSTFACERS
GHOULS
HEAVEN
HELL
HELLHOUND
IMPALA
LEVIATHAN
LUCIFER
NEPHILIM
POSSESSION
ROWENA
RUGARU
SALT
SHAPESHIFTER
SULFUR
TABLET
VAMPIRE
WINCHESTER

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Monsters, demons, and angels populate this long-running series about two brothers. Hunt for Sam and Dean Winchester, the angel Castiel, demon-king Crowley, and weapons like the Colt itself.

Supernatural word search printable sheet, 30 words to find — Supernatural word search, printable sheet

Tips for Solving Word Search Puzzles

Words in this puzzle run in all eight directions: across, down and diagonally, and some of them read backwards. Knowing the rules narrows the search before you start.

How hints work

Press and hold a word in the list beside the puzzle above, or hold Space or Enter on it from the keyboard, and a ring fills while you wait. After five seconds every cell where that word's first letter appears is outlined in the grid. Keep holding another six seconds and the outlines narrow to only the places where its second letter follows on. Let go and the outlines clear. A word found with help keeps its outline, in the grid and in the list, so you can see afterwards which ones needed a hint. Hints are available while the clock is running, not while the puzzle is paused.

Ways to find a stubborn word

Check the edges for long words. A long word needs a long straight run of cells, and the outer rows and columns are where those runs tend to begin or end. Trace the border first.
Hunt the rare letter, not the first one. A word that contains a J, Q, X, Z, K, W or V is easier to find by that letter than by its opening one: there are far fewer of them on the grid, and each one you find is a candidate to read outward from in every allowed direction.
Search the open ground. Once several words are marked, the remaining ones are hiding in the areas nothing crosses yet. Give the untouched patches your attention before re-reading rows you have already combed.
Look for doubled letters and fixed pairs. LL, OO, EE, TH and QU stand out at a glance. Find the pair, then check whether the rest of the word runs from it.
Scan one direction at a time. Run your eye along every row looking only for the word's first two letters, then down every column, then along the diagonals if the puzzle allows them. One direction per pass is faster than switching on every cell.
Read the endings. If words here can run backwards, an ending like ING, TION or ER is as good a handle as the start: spot it, then read back the other way.
Take the longest words first. They have the fewest possible positions, and marking them carves the grid into smaller regions for everything shorter.
Pause when you are stuck. Pause stops the clock. A fresh look after a minute away finds what a tired one keeps missing, and Shuffle gives you a new arrangement of the same words if you would rather start over.

What the words in this puzzle mean

ALPHA: The first of a monster species, the source every later one descends from.
ANGEL: Warriors of heaven who need human permission to take a vessel.
ARCHANGEL: The four oldest and strongest angels — Michael, Lucifer, Raphael and Gabriel.
CASTIEL: The angel who pulls Dean out of hell and becomes the brothers' closest ally.
COLT: A revolver made in 1835 whose bullets kill almost anything.
CROWLEY: A crossroads demon who talks his way up to King of Hell.
DARKNESS: Amara, God's sister, locked away before creation and released in season eleven.
DEMON: A human soul twisted in hell, possessing bodies and betrayed by black eyes.
DJINN: A monster that traps victims in a satisfying illusion while feeding on them.
EMPTY: The void where angels and demons go when they die, where nothing is supposed to wake.
FUNKY TOWN: The line ending season eleven, and fan shorthand for the show's cliffhangers.
GABRIEL: The archangel hiding as the Trickster, who kills Dean repeatedly in one famous episode.
GHOSTFACERS: The amateur ghost-hunting crew whose web series parodies the brothers' work.
GHOULS: Monsters that eat the dead and take the appearance of whoever they consume.
HEAVEN: Run by angels and made of the best memories of the dead, each in a private world.
HELL: Where souls are tortured until they become demons, ruled in turn by Lilith, Crowley and others.
HELLHOUND: The invisible dog that comes to collect a soul when a crossroads deal falls due.
IMPALA: Dean's black 1967 Chevrolet, treated by the show as a third main character.
LEVIATHAN: God's first monsters, locked in Purgatory until they escape in season seven.
LUCIFER: The archangel who fell, and the series' central antagonist across several seasons.
NEPHILIM: The child of an angel and a human, forbidden and enormously powerful.
POSSESSION: How demons operate — which is why the brothers wear anti-possession tattoos.
ROWENA: A centuries-old Scottish witch, Crowley's mother, who becomes an ally.
RUGARU: A human who slowly turns into a cannibal monster once the hunger takes hold.
SALT: A line of it holds back ghosts and demons; rock salt rounds work at a distance.
SHAPESHIFTER: A monster that sheds its skin to take another person's form.
SULFUR: The residue left where a demon has been, and the brothers' first clue at a scene.
TABLET: Stone records of God's word, holding the trials that can close heaven or hell.
VAMPIRE: Killed by beheading rather than stakes, and hunted by the Alpha's descendants.
WINCHESTER: The family name of Sam and Dean, the brothers the whole series follows.

Supernatural Word Search Answer Key

Checking a finished sheet, or stuck on the last word? The Supernatural Word Search Answer Key marks all 30 hidden words in the grid and lists the row, column and direction each one starts from. It prints on its own sheet, so you can hand out the puzzle and keep the answers.

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