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Savanna Word Search

A word search over eight themed lists of African animals, places, foods and instruments, hidden in all eight directions.

The board

Play against the machine. Your best score is kept in this browser only — nothing is sent to the archive.

Click or tap to play. Keyboard works too where the game uses it.

What is playing against you

Nothing plays against you — obstacles arrive on a timer.

No opponent — a timer or a spawner
Nothing is playing against you. There is no opponent in this game at all — no model of you, no plan, no choices being weighed. What feels like an adversary is a spawn timer and a random number generator: obstacles appear on a schedule that tightens as your score rises. This is worth noticing precisely because it can feel otherwise. Difficulty that rises with time reads as an opponent responding to you, and it is not.

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What this version is not

The word lists are English, and were assembled by the prototype without a source. Spellings of place names and instruments have not been checked against any authority, so treat the lists as a puzzle rather than as a glossary.

Sources

No sources have been attached to this entry yet. Until they are, treat everything above as provisional.

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