Wordsearch-o-matic!

Type a list of words into the box below. The program will try to fit all of them into a 16x16 grid of letters and fill in the blanks with random letters. The number of words that will fit varies a lot depending on what those words are - try it with about 30 words.

If you use the 'Easy' setting, the words will all run from left to right, top to bottom or diagonally left to right and either up or down. On the 'Hard' setting, words will run in all directions except directly backwards. Also, in 'Hard' mode, some of the gaps between the words are filled with parts of other words instead of random letters.

Tips:

• You can fit more short words into the grid than long ones.
• You can usually fit at least 30 words into the grid - so that's a good starting point.
• Puzzles with less than a dozen or so words aren't as much fun because you spend more time looking for words and have less fun finding them!
• Since it's a 16 x 16 grid, you obviously can't have any words longer than 16 letters.
• Suprisingly, puzzles made with shorter words are MUCH harder to solve than puzzles with mostly big words.
• You can make 'number search' puzzles by typing in numbers instead of letters...you could even mix numbers and words.
• Don't enter punctuation, hyphens, etc.