About Word Search

Chainsaw Man Word Search hides character names in a fourteen-by-fourteen grid of letters. Each day's puzzle packs in up to eight names from the cast, written without spaces, so Aki Hayakawa becomes one long run of letters buried among decoys. Find them all as fast as you can.

It is the most relaxed of the chainsaw man games online at Chainsawdle, with no lives and no guess limit, but the daily leaderboard ranks the fastest solvers, so there is still plenty of pressure if you want it. The puzzle is the same for everyone on the same spoiler setting.

The Words to Find list next to the grid shows every name hidden in today's puzzle. Drag across the letters in a straight line to select a name. Names can run left to right, top to bottom, or along either diagonal, and you can drag from either end. A correct selection is highlighted and the name is crossed off the list.

Names are between three and twelve letters, written in capitals with spaces removed. The pool follows your spoiler setting, so with manga characters off you will only see names from the anime, and with them on the Part 2 cast can appear.

A timer counts up from the start and resyncs with the server if you reload. Find every name to see the All Found screen with your time and a countdown to the next puzzle at midnight UTC. Signed-in players who finish are ranked on the daily leaderboard by time. A Give Up button ends the round if you are done.

Hunt for rare letters first. Names like Quanxi, Kishibe or Pochita contain letters such as Q, X, K and B that show up far less often in the grid than vowels, so scanning for them is faster than reading row by row.

Start with the longest names. A long run like a full first and last name is hard to hide and blocks off a large part of the grid once you find it, which leaves less space for the short names to hide in.

Remember the directions. Since names are only placed forwards, horizontally, vertically or on a diagonal, look for the first letter and check just four directions from it rather than all eight.