Shakespeare Word Search Poster (Large)

The 32 by 40-inch poster has a word search with a grid of 85,808 letters containing all the words used by William Shakespeare. Our source was The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, originally published in 1623, available from Project Gutenberg (http://gutenberg.org). Shakespeare wrote using a vocabulary of, depending on who did the counting, 15,000 to 31,500 words. We found, after removing punctuation and deleting duplicates, 26,786 unique words. We wrote a computer program that arranged the words in a word search grid of 248 by 346 characters. The words are arranged horizontally, vertically, and diagonally going forward and backward. The puzzle is 95.6% dense, meaning that about 96% of the letters are part of a word, and only about 4% of the letters are random fillers. Visit ptolemypress.com for a free download with the word list and solution.