US State Word Searches

Each of these puzzles is about one state and nothing else. The word list is that state's own vocabulary — its capital, its nickname, the largest cities, the rivers and the mountain ranges, the state bird and the state flower — so working through one is nearer to a geography lesson than to a general word hunt.

All fifty are here, alphabetically from Alabama to Wyoming, one page per state. Each one is the state as a whole; the capitals and the larger cities have pages of their own, filed in the Geography topic and on the US city page.

Forty-nine of the fifty are in the hard tier, which for a state page is rather the point; South Dakota is the one medium. Words read in all eight directions on grids from 15×15 up to 27×27, and the lists run long — Hawaii and New York hide forty words each, California thirty-seven. Print one with its answer key if you would rather check the last three than hunt them.

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