Word Search Round-Up - April 2022
First published: Tuesday May 3rd, 2022
Summary of Changes
The main change this month was the renaming of Saturday into Secret Saturday - thanks to a community suggestion last month!
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 61 | Friday | Nonsense |
| 63 | Sunday | Missing Letters |
| 65 | Tuesday | Countries |
| 66 | Wednesday | X-Words |
| 67 | Thursday | English Monarchs |
| 68 | Friday | Orange Things |
| 71 | Monday | Chess |
| 72 | Tuesday | Mountains |
| 74 | Thursday | Shakespeare |
| 75 | Friday | Harry Potter |
| 77 | Sunday | Anagrams |
| 78 | Monday | Easter |
| 79 | Tuesday | Capital Cities |
| 81 | Thursday | Dinosaurs |
| 82 | Friday | Numbers |
| 87 | Wednesday | _a_e_ words |
| 88 | Thursday | Roman Emperors |
| 89 | Friday | Colours |
Over April we've had 18 custom themes, and again every day except Saturday's got special treatment. It was once again an enjoyable challenge coming up with Themes that are varied and entertaining.
My favourites from this past month have been Nonsense (who didn't?) as well as Dinosaurs and Harry Potter also.
Quickfire Stats
Once again, indulge yourself in these quickfire stats!
- All 30 word searches were played over 92,000 times in total.
- Logged-in users represent 61.3% of those takes.
- 87.2% of takes were submitted before the end of the day.
- 83.4% of takes achieved 100% status.
- The easiest grid was English Monarchs on April 5th, with 98.8% of takes completing the grid.
- Similarly the hardest grid was Saturday April 23rd with just 9.0% completion rate.
- The hardest non-Saturday grid was Sunday April 10th, with 58.9% completion.
- Over 21,000 unique people played a single word search this month.
- 272 people have completed the word search every single day in April!
- Over 3,700 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 a ginormous 12 times! Also saffroncat managed to come first 6 times.
- 31 users achieved 100% in every grid of April.
- The most-taken word search so far was #86 on April 26th (Geography) with over 3,800 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 May 13th. 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 - May 2022
Below are the 4 choices this month. Choices 2 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.
(1) Star Wars
In a land... far far away, pick a side as the Dark and the Light battle for your vote for this intergalactic puzzle!
(2) Chemical Elements
Thanks to SaturnTheQuizzer for this suggestion!
Something's brewing in the lab today, mix your way to success in a chemical grid filled with elemental words!
(3) Poetry
Famous poets, famous pieces of poetry as well as commonly associated words with the subject matter.
(4) Australia
Thanks to Josiah for this suggestion!
Tour your way across Down Under with cities, traditions and animals all from the country of Australia!
Voting has now closed. The results are below - the winner is Australia with 22 votes.
