A Fun Friday Wordsearch!
Or is it...
Hidden in this wordsearch, is a trail of clues to lead you to one specific word within the grid. It's this specific word, and the trail you used to get there that I'm after.
To begin, look for words adjacent to the green start-square, use these to find the next word; which again will be touching a new pair of clues.
Continue this until you have solved the board and retrieved the final word (which has no more new clues touching it).
Note: This was originally meant to be a bit of fun for a Friday, and definitely nothing involving cryptic logic or deduction. Below, see the first clue example worked out for you, which should make it clearer how to proceed.
From the start square, we have two words "touching" it. hard and hat. We can use these, and a bit of searching, to find the next word helmet
(I, 6) -> (N,6)
. "Touching" this are the words: "snake", "seasons", and "venonous". Out of those potential clues, two of them clearly go together snake and venomous, which suggest the next word you need in your trail. To re-iterate, each word has a pair of clues that you should use, any additional words are either red-herrings, or you will come back to later.
Also to clarify, as a simplification hint:
All words that you need are on verticals and horizontals.
Any feedback more than welcome as always, this is something I had in my head for a while and hope it's as fun & relaxing to solve as it was to design.
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Text based grid (will reformat if a better way is suggested)
_ h a r d f b o s i t s h a p p y p k t c
h r e g b d n l n u c r m s l a o p i d s
a k c o b r a r a k i n g b f y h u a e e
t e f e k a p g k e u i n h j b j r f p m
t r j r r p r t e w r o r p s y t s o i o
v e n o m o u s h e l m e t e r j e g r l
t h g u h u n t f o d b f o a c r q y t u
v t d b i n i o j h k c i m s e p p t s b
g a d e r f n c f c e a a c o l o u r s r
v e c f c y g j e l g r b t n c l g e f a
d w r e d a u g h t e r f s s r a i n e s
e g t e l w w m p k o t a e w r o t t l f
j r y l s r h y m e c a m g i m c u p i b
c e p i f d w u w q a x i j n t a v h n a
o e a b f c b a i n u i l d d j f w e e r
f n q o p a p f n w a o y t v a y p a j b
f l n m u r t e t i g e r g i r l c r c e
e d e o n d i r e d e o a n o m e k t f r
e k k t d l q m r u g e v a r n g m a t r
i d s u m m e r g a r d e n i n g e g a e
n e r a l f y n a n m t l h t e l h i t a
g h e t x v t h j s i l v e r a s f r h a