About this Dinosaurs word search
Dinosaur memory games are a rite of passage for any small person. From the mighty T-Rex to long-necked plant eaters, volcanic eruptions and fossilised bones — tap the cards to unearth matching prehistoric pairs and train your memory along the way.
This puzzle hides 11 dinosaur words in a 13×13 grid. Words run in every direction — across, down, diagonally, and backwards — so look carefully. Tap a word's first and last letter to lock it in, or hit Print puzzle for a clean paper copy.
The hidden words
CROCODILEMOUNTAINVOLCANOMETEORLIZARDTREXBONEFERNMEATPALMEGG
Hunting tip: don't search letter by letter. Pick a word — try CROCODILE — and scan only for its first letter, checking each hit in both directions. Systematic beats fast: the diagonal-backwards words are found by method, never by luck.
How to memorise an animal board
Animal decks reward behaviour-linking. Give each creature a verb — the owl glides, the frog pounces, the crab scuttles sideways — and run the board once as a tiny nature documentary. Actions are far stickier than pictures alone because they recruit the motor memory you use for catching balls and typing passwords.
Group by habitat before you start: sea creatures along one edge, jungle in the middle, farm at the end. When a card hides, you will not remember "somewhere" — you will remember which neighbourhood it lived in, and that narrows twelve choices down to three or four.
Animal deck questions
Are animal memory games good for young children?
They are the classic first memory game for a reason: the pictures are nameable, the sounds are fun to make, and children meet animals in books long before they can read. Start on the easy board and let the wins do the motivating.
What is the fastest way to learn this deck?
Say each animal's name out loud the first time the board is shown. Naming forces you to process the picture instead of just glancing at it, and the sound of the word gives you a second memory hook.