Printable Halloween Word Search Puzzles
15 puzzles in this collection · Last updated:
Fifteen themed Halloween word searches, from ghosts, witches and vampires to pumpkins, costumes and trick-or-treat candy. Each one is a free printable PDF in Easy, Medium, Hard and Large Print formats, with its answer key on page 2.
The general Halloween puzzle also has a Giant edition: 100 words on a 35x35 grid.
Which Halloween word search should you pick?
Every one of the 15 puzzles above comes in Easy, Medium, Hard and Large Print formats, so you can match the grid to the solver instead of the other way round.
- Easy (12x10 grid, 8 to 12 words, words run only across and down) suits young children and first-time solvers. More in our word searches for kids.
- Medium (15x15 grid, 15 to 20 words, diagonals added) is the classroom and family sweet spot.
- Hard (20x20 grid, all eight directions including reversed words) is built for teens and adults. See our word searches for adults and the hard word search collection.
- Large Print (22 pt lettering on a 15x12 grid) reuses the Medium word list at full difficulty. Browse all large print word searches.
The general Halloween word search also has a Giant edition: 100 Halloween words on a 35x35 grid, part of our 100 word search collection.
Printing, answer keys and your own puzzle
Each puzzle is a single PDF sized for both A4 and US Letter, with the answer key on page 2: print only page 1 to hand out the puzzle without the solution. These puzzles are also known as word finds or search-a-word puzzles.
Want your own list? The free Word Search Maker has a Halloween example that fills the word box with random Halloween words for the difficulty you choose, and you can edit the list before you generate your own printable PDF.