Hard Sports Word Search on a Large Grid

The long one: reversed words and diagonals scattered across the widest field of letters this theme is laid out on.

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Hard
Directions
across, down, diagonal and backwards

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Words to find

  • ARCHERY
  • BASEBALL
  • BASKETBALL
  • CLIMBING
  • COACH
  • CYCLING
  • FOOTBALL
  • GOLF
  • HOCKEY
  • JUDO
  • MARATHON
  • REFEREE
  • RUNNING
  • SKATING
  • SKIING
  • SOCCER
  • STADIUM
  • SWIMMING
  • TENNIS
  • TROPHY
  • VOLLEYBALL
  • WRESTLING

Solved

Keyboard: arrows to move, Enter to start a word, arrows to extend, Enter again to confirm, Esc to cancel.

Everything the level permits is here, spread over a great deal of paper. A word can begin near one edge and read back toward it, or climb a slant from the bottom of the sheet. Expect to lose your place at least once, and expect the last entries on the list to take far longer than the first ones did.

This is a sitting rather than a break: an evening, a long journey, a quiet afternoon in a common room. It also works as a shared sheet, since a grid this wide gives more than one person room to search different corners without leaning across each other.

Give each pass one job. Sweep for backwards horizontals, then for bottom-to-top columns, then for the slants; mixing directions in a single pass is how entries slip by.

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