Jobs Word Search Marathon — Hard 20x20

Every direction allowed, on the widest board available: this one is measured in sittings rather than in a single burst of attention.

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Directions
across, down, diagonal and backwards

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Words to find

  • ACCOUNTANT
  • ARCHITECT
  • BAKER
  • BARBER
  • CHEF
  • DENTIST
  • DOCTOR
  • ELECTRICIAN
  • ENGINEER
  • FARMER
  • LAWYER
  • LIBRARIAN
  • MECHANIC
  • MUSICIAN
  • NURSE
  • PHOTOGRAPHER
  • PILOT
  • PLUMBER
  • PROGRAMMER
  • SURVEYOR
  • TEACHER
  • VETERINARIAN

Solved

Keyboard: arrows to move, Enter to start a word, arrows to extend, Enter again to confirm, Esc to cancel.

Scale changes the nature of the search. On a small square you can check everything; here you cannot, so method replaces brute force. Pick a target — one letter, one direction, one band of rows — and finish it before starting another. Random scanning on a field this wide leaves whole regions untouched while you reread the middle.

The theme carries the load well at this size because the jobs sit in clear families — courtroom and emergency work, the building trades, food, shops, the stage — and thinking in families keeps the list from blurring. Printed, it is the sheet to leave out for a while and return to whenever there is a free moment.

Cross off each word on the list as you place it, and note which directions you have already exhausted. On a marathon board, the words you lose are the ones you searched for twice.

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