Country Word Search #1

Find the 10 countries hidden in the word search grid. As with typical word searches, words may be forwards or backwards in any row, column, or diagonal.

There are no answer boxes on purpose! The responsive grid is your only resource to find countries

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Acronyms like UK are not accepted.

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First submitted	February 4, 2016
Times taken	144,059
Average score	60.0%
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+47

Level 68

Jun 13, 2017

Updated!

After over 16 months of being live, I have finally updated the very first wordsearch quiz to be SVG instead of a standard image. Now watch your words be crossed off the grid as you find them, also allowing you to see which you missed at the end!

Level 45

Dec 11, 2019

Here's how to fix the St. Lucia issue. Change just S and U.

Level 26

Jan 13, 2021

Malta, Morocco, Vanuatu

Level 73

Oct 27, 2023

I thought you said 16 months of being alive - as in being one and a half years old.

Level 61

Jun 15, 2017

Impressive!

Level 68

Jun 15, 2017

Thank you so much! :)

Level 77

Jun 18, 2017

Great solution!

Level 93

Jun 18, 2017

Very clever - never knew how one puts together a puzzle like this to make all of the words fit. Good job and thanks for the effort.

Level 65

Jul 6, 2017

+1, and it makes me wonder, what is the most amount of countries you can fit in such a grid? (Without abbreviations like UK)

Level 68

Jul 6, 2017

I believe my highest was 20, although that included some bonus words and some abbreviations. As there are a limited number of countries, there must be a definitive answer. My guess would be somewhere around 14 or so

Level 65

Sep 20, 2017

Hmm I couldn't be sure but I'd say around that too!

Level 78

Sep 14, 2019

Or what is the smallest grid you can fit all the countries in? (that's a lot of countries for one wordsearch... hhhmmm...)

Level 59

Nov 20, 2020

If we’re banning all abbreviations, then the minimum size the grid would have to be at least 28x28 just to accommodate the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is 28 letters long.

+10

Level 39

Jul 28, 2017

I did better guessing countries than looking

Level 60

Sep 20, 2017

Me too! Surprisingly hard.

Level 59

Sep 20, 2017

awesome!

Level 72

Sep 20, 2017

Great!

Level 35

Sep 21, 2017

Nice. Fun Fact A total of seven letters did not make any Countries.

Level 92

Apr 3, 2018

I count 9.

Level 68

Apr 3, 2018

Originally "USA" and "UK" were included in the quiz, but I removed them since acronyms are silly and shouldn't be included! So that free'd up more space, allowing two extra letters to be unused!

Level 71

Oct 16, 2018

I found USA and tried typing that. Shouldn't you change the U or S into something else to get completely rid of it?

Level 59

Apr 15, 2019

I counted 10, maybe quiz just changed again

Level 68

Apr 15, 2019

Nope. Turns out plattitude was wrong with 9, it was always 10 after the removal of UK/USA. By the date you can see the quiz hasn't changed since their comment.

Level 92

May 9, 2019

Me? Wrong!? Yeah, probably.

I think I probably missed the W on the second row.

Level 68

Apr 2, 2018

After a major overhaul today, you'll find all 27 of these Country Word Searches now have no answer boxes (how word searches are supposed to be completed), have no bonuses (which were prominent on later grids, despised by many) and also have had all "United" acronyms removed. So now you can just find countries, and not worry about any acronyms sneaking in there!

Enjoy :)

Level 76

Apr 3, 2018

These look great now!

+17

Level 84

Apr 2, 2018

Oh, that's dirty using St. Lucia! "Stlucia" doesn't register as a word, let alone a country.

Level 70

Apr 15, 2019

You'd really enjoy crosswords where parsing words and phrases can put bruises on your forehead and dents in your desk

+12

Level 72

Apr 3, 2018

Dyslexia really helps when you try these. Zero points, yay!

Level 39

Aug 27, 2020

My brother has dyslexia and he actually finds word searches a lot easier than the rest of us! I guess it depends on how dyslexic you are though.

Level 42

Apr 11, 2022

I have a bit of Dyslexia myself, if it's a jumbled word, I usually know what it means. I don't have a huge dyslexic brain, I have a bit of it. Also, WHERE MY DYSLEXIA SQUAD AT! CUZ IM HERE!

Level 46

Apr 8, 2018

USA should be accepted since it is in the top right corner upside down

Level 68

Apr 8, 2018

It was originally, but caveats clearly state that "Acronyms like UK are not accepted."

This is because I removed all the acronyms from all of these word searches, since originally only UK, USA and UAE were accepted. But then why should they be the only ones? Why not CAR, PNG, NZ, DPRK, ROK, ROC etc... be accepted. So I made the executive decision to purge all acronyms, as that way the quizzes are more fun and challenging. (After doing all 27 grids, you realise that 50%+ had UK, UAE and USA in them, meaning you could easily get 3 answers without trying)

+13

Level 47

Aug 26, 2018

Cults...

Level 59

Nov 15, 2018

I saw OwO

Level 37

Jan 7, 2019

Oh no...

There are Artificial Intelligence (AI) cults in St. Lucia!!!

We must stop them before they take over the world!!!

😂😂😂

+11

Level 44

Jan 24, 2019

do i get extra points cause i found snow

+32

Level 68

Jan 24, 2019

Here, have a bonus point!

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Level 59

Jan 26, 2019

XD Also there are some AI Cults in Bizzaro (Backwards) St Lucia

Level 60

Mar 19, 2020

I found UK. I must get extra points XD

Level 64

Sep 6, 2023

i found Tiran , capital of Albania

Level 37

Jan 27, 2019

Missed St.Lucia. Tricky!!! But interesting quiz.

Level 44

Feb 26, 2019

owo cults

Level 76

Feb 26, 2019

So abbreviations do count? Kinda cheap, especially when you point out that acronyms don't. Even though they're not the same, it does give off the impression that only full words will count.

Level 68

Feb 26, 2019

Yes, I admit, I'm not too pleased with that either. As you may see from earlier comments, originally acronyms were allowed, but then there became a problem with when does that stop? Do you allow NZ for New Zealand? MI for Marshall Islands? etc...

So after the quiz was reformatted (along with the other 30) to remove all acronyms as answers, this was not suitable to remove as the then the whole grid would need to be reworked to prevent too many answers being cut.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I am pretty sure none of the others in this series are affected by the St. Lucia issue.

Level 67

May 2, 2019

Never would I have thought that Malta would be the most guessed answer in any quiz, yet here I stand

Level 64

May 7, 2019

9/10 harder than i thought a word jumble would be.

Well done!

Level 79

Jun 22, 2019

Got them all 20 seconds remaining!

Level 60

Jun 22, 2019

usa ! Why does it not count

Level 75

Aug 6, 2019

You say no acronyms, yet you have St. Lucia, which is a abbreviated form

Level 45

Sep 16, 2019

"st" is an abbreviation of "saint."

+12

Level 63

Oct 18, 2019

"Safusa" sounds like it should be a country.

Level 35

Jul 24, 2020

Seems like there are some tricky 'AI cults'

🤣

Level 43

Aug 4, 2020

St Lucia got me. I kept seeing Cults

Level 35

Aug 11, 2020

See what I mean?

Least guessed: St. Lucia

Level 55

Aug 22, 2020

good quiz

Level 67

Nov 6, 2020

Good quiz! However, if acronyms are not accepted, then I believe, St Lucia should instead be Saint Lucia.

Level 63

Nov 18, 2020

Please remove St Lucia. Not only is it an acronym, which you say are not accepted, but I had to look at the comments to even remotely consider it. I find that a WORD search implies in its very essence that we are searching for SINGULAR words as answers, not multiple word answers. Come up with another short country name to put in here instead.

Level 61

Feb 10, 2022

Jeez, dont cry that much about a word. Most of us just saw it

Level 42

Dec 7, 2020

Find these words Sat, Sit, Cult, Now, At, got, Snow, and hat

Level 24

Mar 10, 2021

FUN QUIZ!

Level 46

Mar 22, 2021

Cool! I noticed that "USA" is also there in the top right corner.

Level 57

Apr 22, 2021

This is the coolest quiz I have ever done, and Stewart? HOW ON EARTH DID YOU DO THIS! Please tell me.

Level 61

Jun 21, 2021

after realizing the answers could be backwards, i reanalized every line, not even thinking about it i mindlessly wrote "stlucia" to be safe and then realized i got it right

Level 67

Aug 15, 2021

Harder than I expected, of course that is because with most word searches you have an answer box

Level 79

Oct 15, 2021

You should just make it the actual, full names of countries. Nobody is looking for abbreviations like St. Lucia. That's just dumb to me, sorry.

Level 68

Oct 16, 2021

Yes as I've said above, I've regretted including St. Lucia in this grid

Level 23

Nov 16, 2021

I didn't even think of St Lucia two words and abbreviated; I might have won if not for that. I know you said you regret it. It's just that it was so fun you want to win bad LOL

Level 25

Dec 19, 2021

Who else completely missed Togo, Iran, and St.lucia?

Level 38

Jan 13, 2022

USA is in the top right if you want to add it in as an answer.

Level 68

Jan 13, 2022

Read the comments. It used to be an answer but was removed after complaints about arbitrary acronyms.