Daily Word Search

World Tourism Day

The Grand Tour it came from was a two-or-three-year circuit of Europe undertaken by young Englishmen with money, and the point was supposed to be education. What made mass travel possible was Thomas Cook, who in 1841 chartered a train for a temperance outing and worked out that the arrangements were the product.

Islands get a disproportionate share of it, and the arithmetic is brutal: several island nations take more than half their national income from visitors, which makes them the most exposed economies on earth to anything that stops people flying.

Today's grid is Islands.

Today's word search of the day is the Islands word search: play it in your browser, alone or against a friend, or print it in easy, medium or hard.

The Week Ahead

A new word search every day, each one picked for what the day is known for.

How the Daily Word Search Works

Every date in the year has its own occasion and its own puzzle, from New Year's Day to the last night of December. Holidays that move, like Thanksgiving or Easter, land on their real date each year. The new puzzle starts at midnight UTC, which is the evening before in the Americas, so a class that starts in the morning anywhere from California to Singapore sees the right day.

The same puzzle opens by default in the online game, so you can race a friend on it in real time. Looking for something else? Browse all word search puzzles or the printable word searches.