Something for the munchies
When hunger strikes between meals, a good snack saves the day, and this word search is full of them. You'll track down the salty crowd — POPCORN, CRISPS, CHIPS and a twisty PRETZEL — alongside CRACKERS, NUTS and a handful of TRAIL MIX.
Each puzzle pulls a fresh selection from the list, so the cupboard changes every time you play — gentle on Easy, and a Hard-mode raid once the diagonals and backwards words appear.
Sweet, savoury and a little healthy
There's a snack here for every craving. Go sweet with a COOKIE, BROWNIE, WAFER, MUFFIN or a square of CHOCOLATE, dip into some HUMMUS with PITA, or keep it light with FRUIT, YOGURT, RAISINS and a sprinkle of GRANOLA. There's even some chewy JERKY and a bowl of OLIVES to share.
A snack's surprising history
Snacking is older than you might think. POPCORN has been popped and enjoyed by Indigenous peoples of the Americas for thousands of years, and the potato CRISP (or chip) was supposedly invented in the 1850s by a chef who sliced potatoes paper-thin to settle a fussy customer. Both became huge favourites once factories could make them by the bagful.
Today snacks split into rough camps: salty, crunchy ones like CRISPS, PRETZELS and CRACKERS; sweet treats like COOKIES, BROWNIES and CHOCOLATE; and lighter, energy-giving bites like FRUIT, NUTS, YOGURT and TRAIL MIX. Mixing in plenty of the lighter ones is the secret to snacking that actually keeps you going.
Great for a healthy-eating chat
The blend of treats and lighter bites makes this a handy prompt for a healthy-snacking lesson — Easy mode keeps the grid small with no diagonals or reverse words. Play online, print a PDF pack for a party, or use our Make Your Own tool to build a grid from your own lunchbox favourites.