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Adventure Quest Word Search
11 words · 11×11 grid
How to play: click (or tap) the first letter, drag to the last letter, then release. Words go in any direction, including backwards. Or download the PDF to solve on paper.
Find these words
The princess is in another castle. That single sentence carried an entire genre for twenty years, and the joke is that you knew it was coming and kept going anyway. JUMP, WARP, CHECKPOINT, and LIVES are all here, and so is the BOSS at the end.
A word find puzzle and a word search are the same thing. What changes from sheet to sheet is the list, and this list is adventure quest.
Frequently asked questions
What is a checkpoint?
The spot the game returns you to when you fail, which quietly determines how forgiving the whole thing feels.
Does this refer to one game in particular?
No, the words are the shared furniture of the platform genre, which borrowed them from each other for decades.