A full collection built around familiar names.
An Illusive Patterns puzzle collection
2026Baby Name Hunt
100 Popular Boy and Girl Word Search Puzzles
100 names. 100 puzzles. One hidden solution in each. A simple word-search idea with a satisfying challenge.
BABYNAME
The puzzle idea
One name.
One hidden solution.
Each puzzle features a popular boy or girl name hidden just once in the grid. Find the complete name, circle it, and move on to the next hunt.
Popular names appear throughout the book.
The target name appears exactly once in each puzzle.
Solutions are included at the back of the book.
Actual pages from the book
Take a look inside.
Explore real puzzle pages from 2026 Baby Name Hunt, featuring a mix of names and grid sizes from the book.
How to play
Read it. Hunt it. Find it.
The target name is printed above each grid. Search for that complete name — across, down, diagonally, and on harder puzzles, backward.
Read the name
Start with the target name printed above the puzzle.
Search the grid
Look across, down, or diagonally for the complete name.
Find it once
There is exactly one hidden occurrence of the target name.
Check the key
Use the complete answer key when you want to confirm the solution.
A familiar puzzle format, with a focused twist: find one name hidden once.
Every grid is filled only with letters from its target name. The result is a clean, focused hunt that changes character from name to name.
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2026 Baby Name Hunt
Ready for your next name hunt?
100 popular boy and girl word search puzzles by Joel Davidson, from Illusive Patterns — an EntigraStudio puzzle collection.
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2026 Baby Name Hunt begins the Illusive Patterns collection. More puzzle and activity books are on the way from EntigraStudio.