Search the Whole Puzzle Library at Once

The Browse page on Gridl has grown into a real catalog: hundreds of crosswords, word searches, matching games, flash card sets, bingo cards, worksheets, math drills, word scrambles, and Quizl quizzes, plus every public puzzle the community has shared. That is great when you know the topic you want, but it has gotten harder to scan a long page of category cards looking for one specific thing.

So we added search.

How It Works

There is now a search box at the top of /browse. Type a topic, hit Enter, and Gridl scans the entire library for matching titles. One word like "fractions" or "dinosaurs" is usually enough.

Results are grouped together so you can see at a glance whether a match is a crossword, a word search, a worksheet, a flash card set, or something else. Each result links straight to the puzzle, so you can play it, print it, or copy it into the editor with one click.

What Gets Searched

The search covers titles across every kind of content on the site:

• Premade crosswords, word searches, matching games, flash cards, bingo cards, worksheets, word scrambles, and math drills
• Premade Quizl quiz sets
• Public community puzzles shared by other Gridl users

If a title matches, it shows up. We are starting with simple text matching on titles to keep results fast and predictable. Searching the words inside puzzles is something we may add later if it turns out to be useful.

A Real URL You Can Share

The search query lives in the URL, so a search for "weather" lands at /browse?q=weather. You can bookmark it, share it with a colleague, or send it to a parent who is looking for materials on a specific topic. The page works without JavaScript, too: the form is a plain HTML form, the results are rendered on the server, and they show up the moment the page loads.

Try It

Open the Browse page and type a topic you teach. If we have something on it, it will be there. If you cannot find what you need, you can always build it yourself: a few words and a couple of seconds is all it takes to make a new puzzle.