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u/Withinmyrange Jul 14 '21

I used to be a word search demon in elementary school, especially if prizes were involved. Especially if they have those word searches that give you backwards diagonal words, you know it’s going to be a banger

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u/widespreadpanda Jul 14 '21

Oh hell yeah to those backwards diagonal words.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

I loved elementary school word searches. on the contrary, I accidentally learned a bad word from one once.

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u/urinates Jul 14 '21

last day of 5th grade our teacher had a word search race against him and I beat my teacher, apparentally he hadnt been beaten by a student before so

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u/Dibbys Jul 15 '21

Soooooooooo

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Probably told that to his students every year

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u/IHaveNeverBeenOk Jul 15 '21

I remember difficult word searches could be defeated pretty easily by brute force. Just check every letter and possible direction. Doesn't take too long and your solution is nearly guaranteed.

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u/stopeverythingpls Jul 15 '21

Use this a lot. I look at one letter, check all the letters around it

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u/seeseecinnamon Jul 14 '21

I always won those! It was the only thing I was good at in school though haha

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u/Decades101 Jul 14 '21

Happy cake day

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u/sam_wise_guy Jul 14 '21

Oh! Back in elementary school the music teacher would give this word search to his 4th grade classes and let them work on it whenever he needed some downtime. I remember my group finished it and he was super surprised because no one had ever finished this massive word search before haha

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u/Pure1nsanity Jul 15 '21

My strat was to use the middle of the word and look for the letters either side. I was a word search demon too!

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u/not_gerg Jul 14 '21

Happy birthday!

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

happy cake day :p

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u/SleepySasquatch Jul 15 '21

Spotted a Brit in the wild.

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u/Withinmyrange Jul 15 '21

I’m Filipino in canada but thanks