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
Six-Word Memoirs & Obscure" was released in early 2008. It collected almost 1,000 Six-Word Memoirs, including additions from many celebrities like Richard Ford, Deepak Chopra, and Moby. It was a "New York Times" bestseller, featured in many stories in "The New Yorker" , and highlighted on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation". As a romantic follow-up to "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs from Writers Famous & Obscure," "Smith" released "Six-Word Memoirs on Love Heartbreak" in early 2009. "Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak" contains hundreds of personal stories about the pinnacles and pitfalls of romance. The editors of