Illustrated Maiden scene — AI-generated artwork behind this city's word search puzzlePrintable Maiden word search — 15×15 letter grid with 8 words to find including BLUEDEVILS, LAKEHICKORY, CATAWBA, plus 4 hidden bonus words
Play a Maiden 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: BLUEDEVILS, LAKEHICKORY, CATAWBA, CHEERWINE, BARBECUE, SWEETTEA, PIMENTO, FRIEDCHICKEN, MAIDENLIB, MAIDENPARK, MAIDENPOST, MAIDENFIRE.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
Maiden word list, defined
CATAWBA/kəˈtɔːbə/ · noun
A variety of red American grape grown chiefly in the eastern United States and used to make white and rosé wines; by extension, a wine made from this grape. The name also refers to the Catawba River and the Catawba people of the Carolina Piedmont. Related: grape, cultivar, wine.
BARBECUE/ˈbɑːrbɪkjuː/ · noun, verb
A meal or gathering at which food, typically meat, is cooked outdoors over an open fire or grill; also the apparatus or act of cooking food in this way. Related: grill, cookout, braai, barbie.
PIMENTO/ˈpɪmɛntoʊ/ · noun
A sweet, edible seed from the fruit of the pimento tree, used as a spice or in cooking. A pimento is also a type of sweet pepper. Related: pepper, capsicum, bell pepper, sweet pepper.