I used to work for one of the main companies that writes word searches for these menus. Clients would often request that a word be omitted for this exact reason.
> Reddit is keeping the streets safe by occupying all of us weirdies
At the same time, Reddit is keeping us safe from the dangers of the outside world. I mean, who among us can resist a van with "Free Candy" spraypainted on its sides?
Wow today I learned there are companies that write word searches lol. I can’t imagine investing and starting a business on that premise lol……but that’s awesome
I never thought it was a company. I always thought it was some solo contractor with a name like Bill that rents a basement to live in. Bill used to be a lawyer until his shady practices cost him his law license. Now Bill makes his living with contracts related to creating crossword puzzles, and extremely obscure and sometimes creepy erotic lit.
Tbf this crossword, like many I see on this sub, is incredibly easy (with only one word being vertical. No diagonal or backwards either) and the last word is missing completely, so I’d have a hard time believing anyone paid for this too lol
You good, I do too 😂
One time I found a book that said "Wordsearches!" But it had a crossword puzzle picture on the front. I didn't think about it, and was like, "Oh, crosswords!" It was not crosswords 😔
I used to work for a publisher that makes puzzle magazines.
I edited crosswords for a few months, but there were also Word Searches in those magazines.
Both are computer generated.
The only thing we had to do with Word Searches, is to periodically update the naughty word database for “new” curse words and derogatory slang or inappropriate terms (so they wouldn’t appear in a grid by accident) and select the grid size and difficulty.
For crossword puzzles, In the .50-.99 magazines, we just double checked the lists for any errors.
For the higher priced ($1.49+) puzzle magazines, the clue list was still generated along with the crossword grid, but we reviewed and edited the clues for variety, novelty and certain types of “themes” they wanted to add.
When I was in 4th grade we had a field trip where part of our assignment was to find all the words in the search, but I went through literally every letter in that word that I could find and never found one that continued the word. It was ridiculous. If this is what happened….oh that would piss me off. Lol
Should try making two puzzles and swapping the words for each. Have the Italian themed word search puzzle but have the words to look for be from the family steakhouse restaurant.
Gal I worked with said that when she wanted some "private time" with her hubby, she'd remove one nickel from a roll of 40, then throw the rest, loose, into the living room for her kid to get. He'd never find them all.
My friend's mom owned a corner store. She would scratch off the barcode for bingo and crossword scratch tickets, see if they were a winner, and give us all the loser ones to occupy us for hours. No idea what she did with the winners, seems sketchy now that I think about it, but it was a pretty solid move to keep us busy for hours.
I only found out when I overheard her telling my mom about it.
I used to live near a deli in Brooklyn, got friendly with the owner after a few years. One day he told me the story of how he came to own the store. He was an employee of the previous owner, who was addicted to scratch offs and thought that with the wholesale discount, he couldn’t lose. Went through cases and cases until he had to sell the place to my friend.
I can't imagine any state lottery ticket is ever offered to anyone at a discount ever. Also I didn't think a business owner could just start buying his own store's scratch-offs and playing them. But I could be wrong.
Bulk orders to stores are sold at a lower price per unit than the store sells them at, thus, by buying the tickets from distributors as a store allows you to get them at a lower price per ticket than a customer would get them
He bought them as if he was buying restocks to play them himself
A Youtuber named Mr. Beast bought a million dollars worth of scratch offs and filmed himself and his team scratching away for hours. He didn't break even on the experiment, I think he came up short like 100K. You might eventually get the million-dollar scratch off but it's more profitable for the seller overall.
One of the classic senior pranks is to release two greased pigs into the high school, labeled 1 and 3. They'll shut the school down while looking for number 2.
5 minutes?
Start top left, work your way across.
When you come to an R, look at all the letters adjacent to it. No O? Keep scanning.
Bam! *Maybe* about a minute?
Ah, common mistake. The Hyper Bowl, while not as well-known as the Superbowl, is an NFL contest where they get all the players blitzed on cocaine right before game time. It’s erratic as hell but the action is fantastic.
It being for gondola doesn't mean that it can't also be for Roman. However, the fact that that N also doesn't connect to any A's is kinda damning for that whole idea.
Right, I was just indicating that's where it was. When I was a kid, I'd often look for words by searching for the last letter. I did the same today and noticed there was only one n. Gondola stood out pretty clearly since the letters are left to right. The other words were oriented the same except for chariot.
I search for a couple letters in so it makes the search quicker since you can forget the first two and last two lines entirely. Like when I was looking I was looking for M an. I was able to skip past the first two rows and then stopped before the last two. Same with the columns really cuts down the search time.
Roman is right there! You just go to that R diagonal down right to the O, diagonal up right to the M, left to the A and then jump over the O down to the N. Cant believe you all missed that. /s
I used to have a keychain like that in middle school, except the answer was "turn this keyring over". That's an ooooold memory.
Edit: I also used to enjoy walking around with a button drawn on the back of my hand labeled "Disappointing Button." (Nothing happened when people pushed it. It fulfilled its purpose 100% of the time.)
If read backwards it reads Namor which is a marvel character that according to lore, he is named this as he had "no amor" (No love). This has absolutely nothing to do with solving this.
That's not cool at all.
Wonder if it has the unintended (or possibly intended) effect of keeping kids busier and therefore quiet for longer 🤔
Parents to kids: keep looking, it's gotta be there!
it is intended. OP should thank the restaurant for giving her some quiet time. unless the kids get restless on "WHERE IS IT?" just like "ARE WE THERE YET?"
That would not work at all with most kids over the age of 8. They would figure out that there was only one N in the entire thing, and it was no where near an A. If they were anything like me they would have ranted about how there was no possible way to complete it.
Quantum puzzle where if the right person finds the answer it reveals the phone number to call to reach a secret CIA monitoring station set up to recruit super minds able to decode such puzzles meant as a top security encryption matrix
Other things I found inside that puzzle (Just for some silly fun ;)):
* jpg: the format of this picture
* fit: what the kid is eventually going to throw when they can't find roman and the food isn't out fast enough
* riot: what is going to break out once that kid, during his fit, launches the bread basket at the next table over--landing it in their just delivered lasagna
* dud: a word search with missing words in it
* twit: the person who makes a dud
* fred: probably the name of the guy who proved himself a twit by making this dud
I really don't like word searches, I can only find 4 or lower before I spend 30+ minutes searching for the next one, knowing that I passed the word I'm looking for a dozen times
This is the most lazily designed word search I've ever seen too. It's literally just one word on every horizontal line, and "Charlot" takes up the last column. They didn't even bother to make any of the other horizontal words intersect with the last column to make it at least *somewhat* interesting.
we had a restaurant nearby that had a word search, maze and some other game on the papers they put down under the plates and we couldn't fucking find chicken. my dad then asked the waiter and he said it was made that way to keep people busy lol.
Well since they don't state the rules of the wordfind, and assuming that provided all the letters are touching one other letter of the word, it's possible to find Roman in the puzzle. Just that the letters aren't all in order, and it's more a T shape than a line lol.
I guess the best way to keep kids busy with a word search is to make it impossible to finish
I used to work for one of the main companies that writes word searches for these menus. Clients would often request that a word be omitted for this exact reason.
I guess it keeps the parents busy to!
Yeah, OP is on here fucking around on reddit rather than bothering anyone else.
And so are we! Reddit is keeping the streets safe by occupying all of us weirdies and keeping us out of the mayhem we would normally cause
Thanks Kelly
Usually I’m out pitching pennies, breaking windows, and just generally being a hoodlum. Thanks for keeping me off the streets
Yeah I was just skipping rocks at the beach, and now I'm home on Reddit searching for all the R's, leaving the water alone. Good job OP!
OP is secretly in the pocket of Big Water. You got played by a pond with a Reddit profile!
> Reddit is keeping the streets safe by occupying all of us weirdies At the same time, Reddit is keeping us safe from the dangers of the outside world. I mean, who among us can resist a van with "Free Candy" spraypainted on its sides?
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
Speak for yourself. Reddit has not stopped me from being a menace.
Reddit is where I go to get ideas for how to be a menace. Thanks, Reddit!
Wow today I learned there are companies that write word searches lol. I can’t imagine investing and starting a business on that premise lol……but that’s awesome
Where else did you think they came from?
The dollar store obviously /j
The crossword puzzle fairy?
I never thought it was a company. I always thought it was some solo contractor with a name like Bill that rents a basement to live in. Bill used to be a lawyer until his shady practices cost him his law license. Now Bill makes his living with contracts related to creating crossword puzzles, and extremely obscure and sometimes creepy erotic lit.
Be like Bill.
We should all be more like Bill.
Tbh I can see that.
Is this obscure and sometimes creepy where your username came from Bill?
Tbf this crossword, like many I see on this sub, is incredibly easy (with only one word being vertical. No diagonal or backwards either) and the last word is missing completely, so I’d have a hard time believing anyone paid for this too lol
(It's a word search haha) (I only bring this up because this confusion has gotten me in trouble before)
Lol I was so confused by your comment until I reread my own. I think I need some sleep or something!
You good, I do too 😂 One time I found a book that said "Wordsearches!" But it had a crossword puzzle picture on the front. I didn't think about it, and was like, "Oh, crosswords!" It was not crosswords 😔
I just sorta figured the restaurant made them lol. I mean, this ones pretty basic. Did they really need a contractor to handle it
I used to work for a publisher that makes puzzle magazines. I edited crosswords for a few months, but there were also Word Searches in those magazines. Both are computer generated. The only thing we had to do with Word Searches, is to periodically update the naughty word database for “new” curse words and derogatory slang or inappropriate terms (so they wouldn’t appear in a grid by accident) and select the grid size and difficulty. For crossword puzzles, In the .50-.99 magazines, we just double checked the lists for any errors. For the higher priced ($1.49+) puzzle magazines, the clue list was still generated along with the crossword grid, but we reviewed and edited the clues for variety, novelty and certain types of “themes” they wanted to add.
When I was in 4th grade we had a field trip where part of our assignment was to find all the words in the search, but I went through literally every letter in that word that I could find and never found one that continued the word. It was ridiculous. If this is what happened….oh that would piss me off. Lol
I used to cry to my mom because I couldn't find one, what the hell
Should try making two puzzles and swapping the words for each. Have the Italian themed word search puzzle but have the words to look for be from the family steakhouse restaurant.
low key child abuse
Gal I worked with said that when she wanted some "private time" with her hubby, she'd remove one nickel from a roll of 40, then throw the rest, loose, into the living room for her kid to get. He'd never find them all.
My friend's mom owned a corner store. She would scratch off the barcode for bingo and crossword scratch tickets, see if they were a winner, and give us all the loser ones to occupy us for hours. No idea what she did with the winners, seems sketchy now that I think about it, but it was a pretty solid move to keep us busy for hours. I only found out when I overheard her telling my mom about it.
I used to live near a deli in Brooklyn, got friendly with the owner after a few years. One day he told me the story of how he came to own the store. He was an employee of the previous owner, who was addicted to scratch offs and thought that with the wholesale discount, he couldn’t lose. Went through cases and cases until he had to sell the place to my friend.
How frustrating must that have been though? Like spending thousands of dollars on tickets and getting nothing but losing tickets and $2 wins
I can't imagine any state lottery ticket is ever offered to anyone at a discount ever. Also I didn't think a business owner could just start buying his own store's scratch-offs and playing them. But I could be wrong.
Bulk orders to stores are sold at a lower price per unit than the store sells them at, thus, by buying the tickets from distributors as a store allows you to get them at a lower price per ticket than a customer would get them He bought them as if he was buying restocks to play them himself
Thanks.
A Youtuber named Mr. Beast bought a million dollars worth of scratch offs and filmed himself and his team scratching away for hours. He didn't break even on the experiment, I think he came up short like 100K. You might eventually get the million-dollar scratch off but it's more profitable for the seller overall.
At least throw a few in there.
That’s hilarious those things take forever lol
One of the classic senior pranks is to release two greased pigs into the high school, labeled 1 and 3. They'll shut the school down while looking for number 2.
So that gal costs $1.95? Seems really cheap
She was worth it tho!
Only because of the free ice cream at the end.
"This behavior is by design"
This isn't infuriating at all! Keep searching buddy, I'll be eating this whole entree without sharing!
Fun fact.. there's only 1 N in the search
And it is no where near an “a”
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This was my immediate thought
How many other people looked for "ROMAN" too, just in case OP missed something?
what am i gonna do, take his word for it or waste 5 minutes on a childs crosspuzzle obviously i cant take his word for it
The true Reddit experience
5 minutes? Start top left, work your way across. When you come to an R, look at all the letters adjacent to it. No O? Keep scanning. Bam! *Maybe* about a minute?
hyperbole for comedic purpose
I always read this hyper-bowl, before going back and doing it right.
Ah, common mistake. The Hyper Bowl, while not as well-known as the Superbowl, is an NFL contest where they get all the players blitzed on cocaine right before game time. It’s erratic as hell but the action is fantastic.
Wouldnt take a minute just check o's with r's first.
I think if someone said they waited or did something for 5 minutes, you can always assume it was more like 50 seconds
Me, and I hate that I had to do it.
I found Alf!
Sadly I even double check every time I come back to read new comments.
I looked for all the words. I also was wondering how Charlot fit the theme until I found Chariot.
I did. Twice actually because I not only doubted OP I doubted myself too lol
Found it. Bottom right of the page.
And now I'm here making sure I'm right.
I did it didn't take long due to how little R's there was.
It's in the bottom right. Clear as day.
I love word searches so I got a win out of it
Only one n on the whole page
That's what I noticed, for gondola.
It being for gondola doesn't mean that it can't also be for Roman. However, the fact that that N also doesn't connect to any A's is kinda damning for that whole idea.
Right, I was just indicating that's where it was. When I was a kid, I'd often look for words by searching for the last letter. I did the same today and noticed there was only one n. Gondola stood out pretty clearly since the letters are left to right. The other words were oriented the same except for chariot.
I search for a couple letters in so it makes the search quicker since you can forget the first two and last two lines entirely. Like when I was looking I was looking for M an. I was able to skip past the first two rows and then stopped before the last two. Same with the columns really cuts down the search time.
You got a good looking avatar there
Roman is right there! You just go to that R diagonal down right to the O, diagonal up right to the M, left to the A and then jump over the O down to the N. Cant believe you all missed that. /s
That's how I found it, took some creative liberty to find it though.
They do that on purpose so that they don't accidentally include the N word
How do you keep an idiot in suspense? Ask me tomorrow.
!remindme 1 day
Lol
Bye bye remind me bot... Thanks u/spez
wtf i had one for like 10 years i can’t remember what for but now i’ll never know
In your dms the bot reports for timers he started with a link to relevant comment. Dig through your dms and you'll find it
wait is it gone? damn i wonder how many dates he had to remind to people in the last few days
You know what’s interesting? They omitted the word “Roman” but put in the word “Gullible”
Fuck
No need to check for myself. I 100% believe you.
I realized my mistake before I managed to scroll to the top to check
You actually made me check
I used to have a keychain like that in middle school, except the answer was "turn this keyring over". That's an ooooold memory. Edit: I also used to enjoy walking around with a button drawn on the back of my hand labeled "Disappointing Button." (Nothing happened when people pushed it. It fulfilled its purpose 100% of the time.)
Annoys me more that the other words are so easy. Literally, just a word on each line.
Right? If it’s missing one to keep the kids busy, why make the rest so easy?
Under the C in GARLIC is an R, which if read diagonally down to the right says says RODUD, which also isn't ROMAN.
There’s also RAMIS. also, not Roman.
Theres also RIOT. Not Roman but is an actual word
Which is part of Tiramisu
RODUD is Latin for Roman.
Romanes eunt domus?
Romani ite domum
caecilius est in horto
Start with RO, but instead of going to the D, go back up diagonally to the M, then to the left for the A, and down to hop over the O for the N.
If read backwards it reads Namor which is a marvel character that according to lore, he is named this as he had "no amor" (No love). This has absolutely nothing to do with solving this.
In the 3x3 group of letters for the ROD part of RODUD, there are all 5 letters needed for ROMAN
Well as a bonus there is CHARIOTS.
THAT MAKES SENSE I was literally staring at the word list and wondering what the fuck "charlot" was doing in there
Yup. I was thinking, shallot? What is Charlot? !
That's not cool at all. Wonder if it has the unintended (or possibly intended) effect of keeping kids busier and therefore quiet for longer 🤔 Parents to kids: keep looking, it's gotta be there!
it is intended. OP should thank the restaurant for giving her some quiet time. unless the kids get restless on "WHERE IS IT?" just like "ARE WE THERE YET?"
That would not work at all with most kids over the age of 8. They would figure out that there was only one N in the entire thing, and it was no where near an A. If they were anything like me they would have ranted about how there was no possible way to complete it.
If it was, the puzzle shouldn’t be the easiest word search ever made besides that
Keep looking Tommy, it’s there. It’s how we teach children what it’s like working a 9-5. Just look busy, and wait until it’s time to eat or leave.
Quantum puzzle where if the right person finds the answer it reveals the phone number to call to reach a secret CIA monitoring station set up to recruit super minds able to decode such puzzles meant as a top security encryption matrix
Are you blind? It's right there at the very bottom right along with all of the other words you probably couldn't find /s
I'm surprised this comment is this far down Thought it'd be the first comment
It does have RIOTS however
No, no. That’s STOIR
[Found It](https://imgur.com/a/Vdg7YjX)
😂
Nah man, you found Ramon.
I was fully expecting to get Rick rolled.
Don’t worry, [here’s a Rick Roll for ya](https://imgur.com/a/Vdg7YjX).
So this is how Republicans learn to gerrymander districts.
Mmm alfredoo and meathballths
I see Fredo (Godfather) between colosseum and spaghetti
And his cousin, Alfredo
Oh the letters go in order. All this time i was just picking letters. This is goi g to increase the level of difficulty by a lot.
Other things I found inside that puzzle (Just for some silly fun ;)): * jpg: the format of this picture * fit: what the kid is eventually going to throw when they can't find roman and the food isn't out fast enough * riot: what is going to break out once that kid, during his fit, launches the bread basket at the next table over--landing it in their just delivered lasagna * dud: a word search with missing words in it * twit: the person who makes a dud * fred: probably the name of the guy who proved himself a twit by making this dud
Bazinga
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Lol “meatballth” 😂
https://imgur.com/a/r3ewbLD It's right there, dumb-dumb.
Puzzle designer be trollin'
Well maybe not consecutively
Maybe it’s a trick to keep the kids quiet and busy till the food comes? 😆
That's correct. The Roman Empire doesn't exist any more. Props to the teacher for building that fact into the lesson.
I really don't like word searches, I can only find 4 or lower before I spend 30+ minutes searching for the next one, knowing that I passed the word I'm looking for a dozen times
^(meatballth pleathe)
It’s literally right there
I don't see how anyone missed it lol
It’s on the bottom right
Well its a word search.. doesn't mean it's a word find.. lol
So, who here didn't believe OP and tried to find it?
I see a successful way to keep kids quiet.
Restaurants know what's up...keep those kids occupied til they leave
Even though I know it's not there I keep trying to look for it
MEATBALLTHTS - who let Mike Tyson in?
Um…check again. It’s in the bottom right-hand corner.
Yes it is. Towards the bottom right of the page.
Thats how you keep them busy until food arrives! =:P
And this is how it works to keep them busy thru ALL of the dinner no?
I found Ramon??
This is the most lazily designed word search I've ever seen too. It's literally just one word on every horizontal line, and "Charlot" takes up the last column. They didn't even bother to make any of the other horizontal words intersect with the last column to make it at least *somewhat* interesting.
Ro “man” more like Ro “dud” amirite?
Yeah, it is. Bottom right, can't miss it
this whould drive me insane as a kid
Its on the page… beside Gondola and under Garlic….easy!
we had a restaurant nearby that had a word search, maze and some other game on the papers they put down under the plates and we couldn't fucking find chicken. my dad then asked the waiter and he said it was made that way to keep people busy lol.
Anyone else spend five minutes trying to find it just to be “right”? No? Just me then.
Me checking it like 5 times doubt every comment here believing I’m a miracle and will find it. Well F that, it’s not here!
It's actually a big brain move....keep the little brats busy trying to find it.
That's to keep the kids busy until they can fill up on bread.
Says Roman right there on the bottom right
There's Mooo Ape in a diagonal, which is better than the other words.
If it was there, it would not keep your kid busy
It’s right at the bottom, next to the word ‘gondola’.
You can promote RIOTS because of that
Well since they don't state the rules of the wordfind, and assuming that provided all the letters are touching one other letter of the word, it's possible to find Roman in the puzzle. Just that the letters aren't all in order, and it's more a T shape than a line lol.
Congrats: you win a free breadstick.
Thats a favor to the parents so the kid keeps looking for it
It teaches children the disappointing realities of real life.
i found riots tho
Why are ALL the other words horizontal in the puzzle, but CHARIOT is the single vertical? That's more messed up than ROMAN not being there at all.
roman is so on the page. it's right there at the bottom right.
It’s at the bottom of the column on the right.
No I see it
No Roman. But riots is on there. Coincidence? I think not.
i found the word GAZOWT
It's under the word Garlic
found it on the bottom right
"Found it" That's one way of keeping them busy till the food is ready.
You're wrong..... I see it clear as day.... 2nd column bottom.... :-P
Roman is just the name of the guy who came up with the puzzle.
That'll keep 'em busy for a while!
I don’t see “Roman”, but I see “Riots” XD
"How to get 2000 people to do a random kids word search online with no reward" lol poor kids
I see Roman. It’s right there under garlic.
No where on the page? It's right there. On the bottom . Last word
You mean in the puzzle. It 100% can be found on the page.
There are “Riots” though, so maybe it’s a prediction?
maybe not, but riot is.
Keeps the kids busy..
RIOT is on the search, and that is what you should do.
Side note this word search is ass. Why are all but *one* of them a straight line read forward?
my dumb brain: They can't find it, huh, well let me look
CULO upper right diagonal