Compact Outer Space Word Search — Medium
A smaller board with diagonals in play means the letters sit close together and answers cross one another more often.
- Grid
- 12×12
- Words
- 14
- Level
- Medium
- Directions
- across, down and diagonal
Machine-verified grid
0 of 14 found
Words to find
- ASTEROID
- COMET
- CRATER
- ECLIPSE
- GRAVITY
- LAUNCH
- LUNAR
- METEOR
- NEBULA
- PLUTO
- ROCKET
- SPACESUIT
- UNIVERSE
- VENUS
Solved
Keyboard: arrows to move, Enter to start a word, arrows to extend, Enter again to confirm, Esc to cancel.
Squeezing slanted entries into a compact square makes the grid dense. Shared letters are common here, and a single letter can belong to two answers at once, so a word you already crossed off may still be holding up the one you are hunting. The vocabulary is unchanged, but it feels tighter.
This size suits a short sitting with a bit of bite: a coffee, a train, a waiting room. It also prints small without becoming unreadable, which makes it a reasonable choice when you want to fit a puzzle onto a newsletter page or a handout that already has other things on it.
Hunt the odd letters first. J turns up in a single entry on this list and X in one other, so spotting either of them on the board effectively hands you an answer.