Description
Teams of two students will attempt to locate science words
pertaining to a particular subject on a board of 16 letters.
Number of Participants / Approximate Time
Up to 2 / 30 minutes
The Competition
1. Teams will be given a board of 16 letters arranged in a 4 by 4 square
pattern and a subject/category. All teams will receive the same boards
and categories.
2. Boards and categories will be given in sets of
three. Each board will contain 3 to 12 words pertaining to a
single category. Five minutes will be allowed for teams to locate words
in each set of three boards.
3. To make a word, students will start with a letter and each succeeding
letter in the word must touch the previous letter in some way (share a
side or touch corners). No letter square may be used more than one in the
same word. Abbreviations, contractions, and hyphenated words and foreign
words not found in an English dictionary are not acceptable. Singular and
plural forms of a word count as the same word, i.e. CAR and CARS count as
the same word, but CARS could prove to be a worthy tiebreaker due to the
extra letter.
4. Students will write down each word found in the blanks provided.
Numbers given in the upper left corner of the letter boxes will be used to
identify the first letter of the word.
Scoring
One point will be awarded for each word.
Ties will be broken the number of words greater than seven letters, then
sequentially lower numbers of letters until
a winner is determined.
Last Updated: August 1, 1999
Copyright 1999, David Peters, ESO at Jacksonville High School.
Reproduction for educational use permitted.
