Word search puzzles have, like crosswords and arrowords, been very popular in the United Kingdom, and - also in common with these latter puzzles - have had complete magazines devoted to them. Word searches are commonly found in daily newspapers and puzzle books. Some teachers use them as educational tools for children, the benefit being that young minds can learn new words and their spellings by intensively searching for them, letter by letter, in the puzzle. A common strategy for finding all the words is to go through the puzzle left to right (or vice versa) and look for the first letter
Fightin' Words throughout the board. Bonus tiles multiply the point value of any letter tile placed on them. Occasionally a player will be dealt a POW tile, which acts as any letter the player desires or replaces an existing letter tile on the game board. If a player replaces an existing letter tile with a POW tile, the letters attached to the newly placed POW tile must still form a word. In March 2012, Fightin' Words added a chat feature to the game. By enabling the chat feature on their profiles, players can chat with each other through the game. Fightin' Words