Illustrated Hastings scene — AI-generated artwork behind this city's word search puzzlePrintable Hastings word search — 15×15 letter grid with 8 words to find including HASTINGS, CASTLE, PIER, plus 4 hidden bonus words
Play a Hastings word search free online. We built the 12-word list around landmarks, neighborhoods, and local flavor, then scattered it across a 15×15 grid — horizontal, vertical and diagonal. Find them all to clear the board.
Words to find: HASTINGS, CASTLE, PIER, OLDTOWN, STLEONARDS, BOURNE, COMBEHAVEN, ALEXANDRAPARK, JERWOOD, STADE, EASTHILL, WESTHILL.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
Hastings word list, defined
CASTLE/ˈkɑː.səl/ (UK), /ˈkæs.əl/ (US) · noun
A large fortified building or group of buildings with thick walls, battlements, and often a moat, historically serving as a stronghold for royalty or nobility; in chess, an informal term for the rook. Related: fortress, citadel, stronghold, keep.
PIER/piːər/ · noun
A structure built out over water, typically extending from the land into a sea, lake, or river, and providing access to boats and ships. A structure built on piles driven into the ground, used as a landing place for boats. Related: jetty, dock, landing, wharf.
BOURNE/bɔːrn/ · noun
A bourne is a small stream or brook, especially one that flows intermittently. In literary use, it also denotes a boundary or limit, particularly in the phrase 'the bourne of human knowledge.' Related: brook, stream, creek, rivulet.
STADE/stæd/ · noun
A stade is a unit of length, equivalent to about 607 feet or 185 meters, used in ancient Greece and Rome. It was also used as a unit of distance in some English-speaking countries. Related: rod, perch, pole, bar.