TTI Word Finder

Map / GIS
GNIS APPA GIS NF parks NPS Lewis & Clark Trail Oregon Trail Continental Divide Trail
Grid
Method
Games
Cipher
Size 15×20 Layout
Flips keep size. Transpose and 90° CW swap to 20×15 or back. Slider shows ←→↑↓ around the grid (wrap). Click Slider again to hide. Row-major order is preserved per transform.
Path picker — Click the preview grid in order (up to 10 cells). Cells do not need to touch — jumps are fine. Once the path has at least 4 cells, matches refresh automatically (same step shape, four rotations, any start). Clear path resets the template.
0 / 10 cells · word length = path length · Auto-search from 4–10 cells · matches refresh automatically
Cardinal — Click any cell on the grid to set the center; rings of 8 letters (N→NE→E→…→NW) are read at each distance.
Anagrams — Click a cell to search only from that start in the compass direction (N / E / SE / SW). No full-grid dump.
Tetris — Solver scans every enabled shape placement on the grid; matches refresh automatically when you toggle shapes or change the cipher.
Chess (Knight) — Solver walks every L-shaped knight jump from each grid cell; after the starting cell, the knight may not land on or next to any already-highlighted cell. Matches refresh automatically when you change the cipher or edit the grid.
Boggle — Solver enumerates dictionary words spellable along 8-neighbor paths (no cell reuse) starting from the picked letter. Type a word above to also highlight where it traces on the grid.
Boggle Pairs — Each dictionary letter is two identical touching cells (8-neighbor). SEE needs SSEEEE; QUARRY needs QQUUAARRRRYY. Word list only — no type-in trace.
Squaredle — Size picker ready — game logic later.
Hopscotch — Walks each court on the grid (8 directions) and finds dictionary words along those squares.
Leftover anagrams — Click or drag to block cells (gold). Highlighted words update right away; leftover anagrams auto-run at 15+ blocked cells (8 dirs · jump blocked · wrap).
Letters for the layout are what the search uses: stored A–Z reshaped to this size, then read with the selected cipher (Plain or Anagrams on wordsearch) before readouts, everyNth samples, and wordsearch lines are scanned against your dictionary (updates automatically when you change anything). Use CUBE under Grid for an in-page 3D cube of the current letters plus cube steganography searches (face readouts, borders, belt, seams, nulls). Switch to the Boggle game (under Games) to type a word and see where it can be traced with 8-neighbor steps: red = exact path spelling; green = multiset cluster cells. The same Boggle bar also has a starting-letter dropdown that runs an 8-neighbor solver over the whole dictionary.
By default this page loads wordsplaces.ttibin and DomesticNames_National.ttibin when present (fast caches built from the .txt files via python build_tti_data.py), otherwise the .txt files in the same folder. Under Map / GIS, choose your Default preferred mapping service (Google Maps, onX, Gaia GPS, or AllTrails) and optionally a State filter so Map places lists only features in that state. Each hit can open a Map places dropdown listing domestic feature names that contain that hit word anywhere (e.g. THE → theisen, abtheil, …; each ROCK pin listed per state): click the place name for your default app, or the three favicon buttons for the other apps. Words are normalized to A–Z.
Includes classic 8-way wordsearch lines plus WS 8 Way Jumps (same rays, letters may skip cells; solid no-skip and symmetric-gap hits are omitted), WS 8 Way Jumps Symmetry (jump gaps must match forward and back, e.g. H A NN A H), Jumps Duplicates (same jump-word with the same gap spacing appearing 2+ times, length 4–20), and Jumps Pattern (different jump-words with the same non-symmetric gap spacing, length 6–10), and Jumps Pattern Symmetry (same, but gaps must read the same forward and back). Also alternate readout paths (spirals, snakes, checker paths, etc.). For each path we also scan every 2nd / 3rd / 5th letter (all start offsets). Checker even/odd with Anagrams uses the compass (N or E path order only). Doubles, Sep Doubles (D8 pattern matches), and Sep H/V (horizontal/vertical overlay viewer) are separate Method entries. The cipher panel offers Plain (letters as shown) or Anagrams (on WS 8 Way: click a start cell — only that compass ray is searched; also Cardinal rings and checker readouts). Changing cipher or method re-runs the search automatically if a dictionary is already loaded.
Grid size reshapes the same 300 letters (row-major) across every factor-pair layout. Bookmark or share a layout with methods.html?rows=15&cols=20 (any pair whose product is 300).
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