Mythical Creatures Word Search
This mythical creatures puzzle holds 40 beasts from legends around the world: the phoenix, the griffin, the centaur, the kraken, the Japanese kitsune, the Scottish selkie and kelpie, the chupacabra, the wendigo and Bigfoot.
Some of these may have started with real bones. The historian Adrienne Mayor has argued that the griffin, a lion with the head and wings of an eagle, came from fossils of the beaked dinosaur Protoceratops that gold miners found in the deserts of Central Asia. The kraken, described by the Norwegian bishop Erik Pontoppidan in the 1750s, has a real relative: the giant squid, first photographed alive in the deep sea in 2004.
In Japan the kitsune is a fox spirit that grows a new tail as it ages, up to nine. Selkies, in the folklore of Orkney and Shetland, are seals that shed their skins to come ashore as people. The best-known picture of Nessie, the surgeon's photograph of 1934, was revealed in 1994 to be a toy submarine with a model head attached.
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15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Mythical Creatures has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Baku
- Banshee
- Bigfoot
- Bunyip
- Centaur
- Chupacabra
- Djinn
- Dryad
- Garuda
- Gnome
- Goblin
- Golem
- Griffin
- Jackalope
- Kelpie
- Kitsune
- Kraken
- Lamassu
- Leprechaun
- Manticore
- Mermaid
- Naga
- Nessie
- Nian
- Pegasus
- Phoenix
- Pixie
- Qilin
- Satyr
- Selkie
- Simurgh
- Siren
- Sleipnir
- Sphinx
- Tengu
- Thunderbird
- Vampire
- Wendigo
- Werewolf
- Yeti