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Hard Animal Word Search

35 words · 20×20 grid · all 8 directions

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.

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Find these words

CHINCHILLASALAMANDERALBATROSSALLIGATORARMADILLOCHAMELEONCROCODILEORANGUTANPORCUPINEWOLVERINEAARDVARKANTEATERFLAMINGOHEDGEHOGKANGAROOMONGOOSEPANGOLINPLATYPUSCARIBOUGORILLALEOPARDMANATEENARWHALOPOSSUMRACCOONBABOONBADGERBEAVERCOYOTEIGUANAJAGUAROCELOTKOALATAPIRLYNX

Too hard? Try the wild animals word search, 11 words in a smaller grid.

The platypus and the echidna are the only mammals that lay eggs, and the platypus is one of the 35 animals hidden in this grid. So are the pangolin, whose scales are made of keratin like your fingernails, and the narwhal, whose tusk is a tooth that grows through its upper lip. The list is built to slow you down: five names start with A and five with C, so spotting a first letter rarely settles anything. Every word can run across, down, diagonally, or backwards.

More puzzles for grown-up solvers: word search for adults, themed pages with longer, less common words.

Frequently asked questions

How hard is this animal word search?

It has 35 words in a 20x20 grid, about three times the words of a standard page on this site, and they run in all eight directions, including diagonals read backwards.

Why do so many animals start with the same letter?

Five start with A (AARDVARK, ALBATROSS, ALLIGATOR, ANTEATER, ARMADILLO) and five with C. When several words share a first letter, scanning for that letter stops narrowing things down, which is most of what makes a word search hard.

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