Word Search Round-Up - June 2022

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First published: Friday July 1st, 2022

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Summary of Changes
Themes This Month
Quickfire Stats
Community's Choice - How It Works
Community's Choice - July 2022

Summary of Changes

No functional changes this month.

We did have a hidden code on one of the puzzles, more info here: Can You Crack The Code?.

Themes This Month

Below is a list of all the custom themes this month, outside of the normal expected ones (e.g. generic Geography and Saturday countries etc...)

#	Day	Theme
122	Thursday	Castles
123	Friday	Queen Elizabeth
126	Monday	Weather
127	Tuesday	Départements
128	Wednesday	Words starting with L
129	Thursday	Explorers
130	Friday	Brazil
132	Sunday	Missing Letters
133	Monday	Countries starting with S
134	Tuesday	Mountains
136	Thursday	U.S. Presidents
137	Friday	Websites
141	Tuesday	Africa
142	Wednesday	Words starting with Q
143	Thursday	Battles
144	Friday	The Beatles
146	Sunday	Initials
147	Monday	Fruits
148	Tuesday	U.S. Capitals
149	Wednesday	Six-Letter words with a double consonant in the middle
150	Thursday	Norse Mythology

During June we had 20 custom themes.

My favourites from June were Websites, Fruits and The Beatles. My favourite puzzle to create was #149, with 6-letter words with a double consonant!

Quickfire Stats

All 30 word searches were played over 85,000 times in total.
Logged-in users represent 60.2% of those takes.
85.6% of takes were submitted before the end of the day.
82.9% of takes achieved 100% status.
The easiest grid was Fruits on June 27th, with 99.1% of people completing the grid.
Similarly the hardest grid was Saturday June 25th with 11.0% completion rate.
The hardest non-Saturday grid was Sunday June 5th, with 39.5% completion.
Over 19,000 unique people played a single word search this month.
324 people attempted the word search every single day in June!
Over 3,400 people have played at least 7 word searches.
The first person to complete the word search each day was dominated once again by Liam who has came first 11 times. However, it was saffroncat who got the most with 15 wins! Congrats to them for finally beating out Liam.
45 users achieved 100% in every grid of June.
The most-taken word search this month was #133 on June 13th (Countries Starting with 'S') with over 3,500 takes!

Community's Choice - How It Works

Now comes to the Community's Choice for Word Search, which will work exactly the same as before. I have copied the introduction again for those that missed it before:

The idea is to allow the community some involvement in the minigames, with the choice of a theme for one word search each month. Here's how it'll work.

At the end of every month, inside the monthly round-up blog I will include a vote for a theme on the next month's word search. Specifically, you will be voting on the theme for the second Friday of each month, in this case that's July 8th. I will present 4 different options, with some ideas for each option, you will be able to vote on these ideas in the comments (by liking the relevant comment) and then after 3 days of the blog being live, I will close voting and announce (in this blog) the winning theme.

Note: Once chosen, the theme cannot be changed, and the other themes are discarded, never to be seen again (for at least 6 months)! So choose wisely! :)

Community's Choice - July 2022

Below are the 4 choices this month. Choices 3 and 4 were suggested by specific members of the community. Please don't spam suggestions to me, I will ask 2 people of my choosing on JetPunk to suggest a theme each month. (Which also means don't ask to be selected - then I will definitely not pick you).

You can vote for these themes by "liking" the relevant comment pinned below.