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House of Zij mini games

Word Search · Hidden Constellation

A word search, but shaped like a map of symbols tucked into the night sky. Trace the words across rows, down columns, and along two straight diagonals; every week a new sky ledger joins the archive.

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Progress0%
Hints5/5
Revealed0

How to play

Find the sky concepts hidden among the letters.

  • Drag from a word’s first letter to its last, or select the line that connects them.
  • Words are never spelled backward: they run left to right, top to bottom, or along diagonals that flow left to right.
  • If you get stuck, you can mark the first letter up to five times, or reveal the selected word in full.
  • This game has no reward; past weeks remain in the archive, and your progress is saved where you left off.

The origin of the game

Word search, the word hidden among the letters

Word search, the word hidden among the letters

The word search is a surprisingly young game. On the first of March 1968, in the town of Norman, Oklahoma, a man named Norman Gibat published the first one to liven up a small classified digest called the Selenby Digest. In a twenty by twenty grid he had hidden the names of thirty four Oklahoma towns. The game that came out of this humble, freely distributed pamphlet was met almost at once with an unexpected affection.

Teachers sensed the game's power immediately. Letters poured in to Gibat asking for more to use in their classrooms. Neither Gibat nor the Spaniard Pedro Ocón de Oro, who had a similar idea around the same time, took out a patent, so the game spread across the world unhindered. It entered newspapers, magazines and children's books. The small triumph of finding a word hidden in a sea of letters enchanted millions for decades.

At House of Zij we hid the names of constellations in that sea of letters. As your eye roams the grid, it is really wandering the sky, joining scattered stars and seeking a pattern. It is a fine coincidence that this is exactly what humanity has done for thousands of years: looking up and drawing a figure, an animal, a hero out of the chaos. What was hidden was always there, only waiting to be seen.

Looking up and drawing a figure out of the chaos: what was hidden was always there, only waiting to be seen.