How to Solve a Word Search Fast
Scan Your Word Search in One Direction
by Michael
The brain does not like confusion. When you repeat steps in a specific order, your brain will build connections that make those steps easier to perform. It learns and grows. So if you want to get a headache, just randomly search the grid every time.
One good way to think of the word search is to attack it like a computer. Our solver uses a simple brute force algorithm to solve each word. It scans the grid for the first letter in the word, then scans the grid in 8 different directions around that letter for the rest of the word.
- If there are not enough letters in that direction to complete the word then we skip that direction
- If the next letter in a direction is not the next letter in the word, it skips that direction
These two techniques will help you make fewer searches. By scanning your grid from left to right, top to bottom, then searching for all of your words that start with a sepcific letter at the same time you might be able to complete a lot faster