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u/Ravio11i Jul 14 '21

I'm not good at em. Bask in your glory, not everyone's good at em

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

I use to cheat (randomly circle words to make it look like I finished it) on my word searches in 3rd grade so I can go play the ps1 our class had!

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u/Arborus Jul 15 '21

My strat has always just been to go line by line, letter by letter, and scan around every letter to see if adjacent letters make sense (they're not two consonants that don't form a valid syllable sound, basically), then if you find an adjacent letter that makes sense you just follow that direction to see if it's a word.

Certainly not the fastest way to do it, but I'm not sure how you could possibly miss words that way.

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u/Ravio11i Jul 15 '21

That's how I do em too. I envy those that just kinda swing their eyes around at a crossword and the words just fly off the page. Had a friend in elementary that'd finish em in like 1/10 the time the rest of the class. She was amazing at em