ThinkFun PathWords User manual

6
and up
single player
Kid’s Ultimate Word Search!
Instructions
& Solutions

This clever word search puzzle brings the fun of our popular PathWords game to
younger players! Players exercise verbal and spatial reasoning skills as they place
Tetronimo-style puzzle pieces onto the challenge grid so the letters under each
piece spell a word. You get 40 single-player challenges — from Easy to Super Hard
— designed to progress in diculty and challenge players as they grow.
Object:
Use the 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.
Setup:
1. Slide back the clear top of the Game Grid to access the Challenge Booklet,
Puzzle Pieces, and Instruction Manual. Remove the Puzzle Pieces from the
Game Grid, and place them nearby.
2. Select a challenge from the Challenge Booklet. Place the Challenge Booklet
in the Game Grid with the selected challenge face-up and all other
pages ipped underneath.
3. Slide the clear top of the Game Grid closed.
4. Select the required Puzzle Pieces shown on the challenge card:
– Select only the Puzzle Pieces shown.
(In some challenges all of the pieces will be used.)
– If you see question marks, the number of question
marks equals the number of pieces you need to
use. The tricky part is that you will have to gure
out which pieces they are!
Kid’s Ultimate Word Search!
Includes:
Game Grid Spiral-bound Booklet with 40 Challenges
6 Puzzle Pieces Instruction Manual with Solutions
2 3

Steps To Play:
1. Place the Puzzle Pieces on the challenge so the letters under each Puzzle Piece
spell a single, complete word when read forward or backward.
2. “Find”indicates that you will be looking for the exact words listed. If pictures
are showing, you will be looking for the word that represents the picture.
3. “Hint”indicates that the phrase or image in the magnifying glass is a helpful clue.
4. Sometimes all of the words will be given, sometimes only some of the words will
be given and sometimes only a hint will be given.
For a Correct Solution:
a. Words covered correctly by a Puzzle Piece will not be scrambled.
b. Puzzle Pieces must t entirely within the challenge boundary.
c. All letters on the challenge must be covered by Puzzle Pieces.
d. No portion of a Puzzle Piece can cover an empty space.
e. When every letter is covered and all colored pieces spell a word, YOU WIN!
Note:
The higher the challenge number, the more dicult the challenge becomes.
As you progress through the levels, less information is given about what words
you need to nd. For instance, in the easy level all the words are given so that the
challenge is more like a word search. In a super hard challenge, only a hint phrase
or picture is given.
Acceptable Words:
PathWords®Jr. challenges use only words that can be found in a standard English
dictionary. Abbreviations, prexes or suxes are not used, nor are words requiring
a hyphen or an apostrophe, nor are proper nouns that require a capital letter.
CHALLENGE
T A
O T I G E
G S E R
H O X O F
R
FIND:
Example: In this challenge
you will be looking for:




Example: In this challenge your hint is to
look for words related to “CACTUS”:
PLANT
SPINE

OUCH
HOT
SAND
Example: In this challenge your hint is to
look for words that go with “STEP”:
FOOT
MOM
STOOL
TWO
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About the Inventor:
Derrick Niederman has been creating word and number puzzles for more than
thirty years. His rst crossword puzzle was published by the New York Times
in 1981, the same year he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. Dozens
of Niederman’s crossword puzzles have been published in the Times and other
leading publications. He has published several volumes of math puzzles and
is the author of the recreational mathematics book Number Freak as well as
the co-author of the quantitative reasoning classic, What the Numbers Say .
Niederman is also the creator of ThinkFun’s original PathWords®(2011)
game as well as the geometric puzzle, 36 Cube®(2008).

If you liked PathWords Jr. and are ready for more challenging puzzles,
check out original PathWords!
1
bunny
hare
hop
tail
6
quack
Meow
bark
Moo
2
Music
rap
rock
pop
7
ant
catch
pest
arMy
8
cats
and
dogs
fight
3
goat
fox
horse
tiger
9
ball
fun
slide
swing
tag
4
hats
hard
sun
top
10
the
old
frog
sang
happy
songs
5
bus
boat
truck
van
67
easy solutions

11
sheep
ewe
raM
laMb
12
spots
trees
zoo
tall
13
desk
books
ruler
pens
14
beach
towel
sea
suit
pail
tan
15
sport
run
swiM
juMp
cycle
16
harp
banjo
sax
flute
tuba
17
eagle
bald
sky
wings
bird
fly
18
six
forty
four
zero
one
19
pies
Meat
Mud
apple
20
pear
peach
fig
pluM
21
cane
land
bar
floss
22
box
jinx
wax
extra
23
bull
dozer
dirt
dig
blade
24
race
car
pit
stops
25
MoM
foot
stool
two
26
body
parts
leg
head
torso
arM
89
MediuM solutions
hard solutions

27
tree
elM
Maple
palM
fir
birch
28
plant
hot
sand
ouch
dry
spine
29
hoMe
tab
end
enter
lock
shift
30
tee
toast
text
tweet
tea
35
heel
toe
bows
socks
ankle
tie
38
eel
stall
law
spill
bell
36
Map
coins
hunt
quest
geM
loot
39
sat
star
start
art
stars
37
b ay
r ay
pray
tray
spray
stray
40
bongo
lop
oops
polo
spool
Mop
31
trout
tuna
cat
perch
pike
cod
32
owe
know
knot
write
33
big
thin
wide
giant
sMall
34
surf
skate
cup
black
walk
11
10
hard solutions
super hard solutions

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