How to Use the Word Search Generator
The grid fills itself as you type: the longest words go in first, then random letters fill the gaps. Press Shuffle the grid for a new layout with the same words.
Difficulty decides which ways a word can run. Easy runs words left to right and top to bottom. Medium adds the two diagonals, and on Hard a word can also read backwards, right to left or bottom to top.
A word longer than the grid can't fit, and a crowded grid can leave a word out. When that happens the tool names the word under the puzzle, so pick a bigger grid or drop it.
Only the letters A to Z go into the grid. Spaces, hyphens and apostrophes are dropped, so "ice cream" is hidden as ICECREAM, while the word list shows it the way you typed it.
Making a Puzzle Book for KDP
With several puzzles in the box, the Print or save as PDF button lays out one puzzle per page at the size you picked, numbered, with all the answer keys after the last puzzle. That PDF works as the interior of a puzzle book: 30 puzzles make 60 pages, well over the 24 pages KDP needs for a paperback.
In the print dialog choose Save as PDF, leave the page size alone and untick Headers and footers, or the browser prints the page address and date on every page. The file keeps half-inch margins on every side. Half an inch clears KDP's inside margin for books up to 300 pages; a longer book needs a bigger gutter than this file has.
Once you know the page count, get the cover size for that page count and check what the book earns at your price.
Grid Size on Smaller Pages
On a 6" × 9" page a 20 × 20 grid prints in quarter-inch squares with 10-point letters, so keep 20 × 20 and 25 × 25 for 8.5" × 11".
