Word Search Round-Up - November 2022
First published: Thursday December 1st, 2022
Summary of Changes
A major change this month saw the introduction of hexagonal-celled word searches!
This new shape has been utilised in many of the grids this month, with much positive feedback.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 276 | Thursday | Logos |
| 277 | Friday | Fire! |
| 280 | Monday | Movie Genres |
| 281 | Tuesday | U.S. States |
| 283 | Thursday | Country Flags |
| 284 | Friday | Armistice |
| 286 | Sunday | Authors by Book |
| 287 | Monday | Bees (first Hexagon) |
| 288 | Tuesday | Capital Cities |
| 290 | Thursday | Cities by Satellite |
| 291 | Friday | Super Smash Bros. |
| 293 | Sunday | Missing Letters |
| 295 | Tuesday | Countries |
| 296 | Wednesday | Double D's |
| 297 | Thursday | Dog Breeds |
| 298 | Friday | Popes |
| 301 | Monday | Indian Cuisine |
During November we had 17 custom themes.
My personal favourites this month were Fire! and Movie Genres.
Quickfire Stats
- All 30 word searches were played over 100,000 times in total.
- Logged-in users represent 57.3% of those takes.
- 83.1% of takes were submitted before the end of the day.
- 77.5% of takes achieved 100% status.
- The easiest grid was Movie Genres on November 7th, with 97.8% of people completing the grid.
- Similarly the hardest grid was Saturday November 19th with 17.2% completion rate.
- The hardest non-Saturday grid was Logos on Thursday November 3rd with 36.3% completion rate.
- Over 22,000 unique people played a single word search this month.
- 355 people attempted the word search every single day in November!
- Over 4,100 people played at least 7 of the word searches.
- The first person to complete the word search each day was once again dominated by Liam with 14 wins. muskox was in second with 5 wins.
- The fastest word search completed first was by yourrandomkid with just 55 seconds on November 7th! (Movie Genres).
- The slowest first-completion was, of course, on November 24th with Dog Breeds. It took leafyjean over 2 hours 10 minutes to complete - and yet they still beat everybody else! This is because I was unable to make a grid in time for when the new day started, so no grid was available for the first 2 hours 8 minutes of the day.
- 46 users achieved 100% in every grid of November.
- The most-taken word search this month was #288 on November 15th (Capital Cities) with over 4,200 takes!
Unfortunately, I am suspending Community's Choice from this month. Instead, I am opting for free suggestions from all users in the comments. Themes will not be chosen by popularity, or by any other measure other than if I want to do them. If I choose your theme, I will reply to your comment telling you when it will be done!
Feel free to continue suggesting themes throughout the month.
But I will do Presidents by Picture on Thursday 8th!
If that's too weird, then here's a more straightforward suggestion: Famous Scientists.