Search A Roni Blog

2024-11-14	Leaderboards If you are interested in how your daily score compares to others then please check the leaderboard! After playing the daily game there is a "Leaderboard..." button available Initially, the leaderboard shows the results for today. Your results will be highlighted (Like this) Players that have an account will show their name - players without an account will have their player # shown Click the buttons associated with "When" to see the results for this week, last week, this month, last month, and this year Each week starts on Monday When showing more than 1 day of results the average score is shown (hours:minutes:seconds) When showing more than 1 day - consider using the "Show" buttons to see only those players that have > 1 game played
2024-10-29	Account Updates If you have created a SearchARoni.com account there is good news for you! The "prefs" area now contains an "Account Update" tab that allows you to do the following: Update your user name Update your email address Update your password Notes: If you are using your Google account then this account update should not be used. To make any changes you must enter your current password into the "Currrent Pwd" text box. Why change your user name? At some point in the future SearchARoni.com may show the names of players (e.g. top 10 sort of thing). - Your email address is considered private and will not be shared.
2024-10-22	Facebook group anyone? There is a new facebook group about Search A Roni ... https://www.facebook.com/groups/522957340505829 X community anyone? There is a new X community about Search A Roni ... https://x.com/i/communities/1848422728388514218 Great forums for showing your results.
2024-10-16	The Border color! The border color changes to indicate a significant amount of time has elapsed - 30 seconds, to be exact! The colors are changing to a random color - we hope your favorite colors are the ones you see!
2024-10-01	Rotate the block! We've added a new feature to help make solving puzzles easier. These buttons, rotate left and rotate right, will rotate the block of letters 90 degrees. Doing this will may reveal a solution by changing the orientation from, say, going down to going to the right. Maybe this makes it too easy?
2024-09-14	Don't want to create a SearchARoni.com account - NO PROBLEM! You can now use your Google account. If you have a "Google" account (doesn't everyone have one of these?) then you can use the new button on the "Existing Account" tab, "Sign in with Google". The first time you login using your Google account ... you will receive a free virtual book of puzzles! Just like with a searcharoni.com account ... when you return to searcharoni.com you'll be logged in and ready to play your virtual books. To sign in using your Google account - click "Account" (upper right), then click "Existing Account", then click the "Sign in with Google" button.
2024-09-07	There have been many questions about who has the "best" time for the day. Good question! The weekly statistics have been enhanced to indicate when your time for the day is "the best" or within 30 seconds of the best. Please note the following icon indications: Your time is the best! Your time is within 30 seconds of the best! If you've played before the day is over it is possible that your best time may be surpassed by someone playing after you. Check back tomorrow to see for sure.
2024-09-05	New Book Today we are happy to announce a new book with the theme of "School". Each of the 5 letter solutions in the "School VBook" are words associated with school. There are 50 puzzles of 8x8 blocks. Playing the puzzles in this book is great for getting your brain in gear as the school year starts.
2024-09-04	First 3 Books Virtual Books 1, 2, and 3 provide lots of puzzles of varying difficulty. VB#1 contains only 6x6 blocks which is a bit easier than VB#2 which is all 8x8 blocks. For those that like a challenge VB#3 offers all 10x10 blocks which are notoriously more difficult. Some say the 10x10 puzzles are nasty which is why the book cover has the look of toughness. For just a few dollars you can enjoy playing more and more searcharoni with these books - happy searching!
2024-08-18	Sharing results just got easier and more flexible. In addition to the "copy" button there is a new "share" button right next to the copy button. This works well on mobile devices by placing the results directly in the app you'd like to use for sharing. Happy Sharing!
2024-08-10	Prefs Preferences are available to people that create an account. These preferences allow you to change the appearance of the puzzle area via the "background", "letters", and "hilight" colors. Once in your account click the 'Prefs' tab, click your desired colors, then click 'Save'. Prior to saving please see the preview to see how nice the new display will be.
2024-07-27	New Book Today we are happy to announce a new book with the theme of "Sports". Each of the 5 letter solutions in the "Sports VBook" are words associated with sports. There are 50 puzzles of 6x6 and 8x8 blocks. Test your knowlege of sports with this fun book - at 99 cents it is a real bargain.
2024-07-15	HINTS! For SearchARoni account holders ... hints are now available. The hints are "offered" after some time to provide you with a clue to the solution. There are limits to hints - only one hint per round, only one hint per book game. There are 3 types of hints: The direction of the solution The first letter of the solution The last letter of the solution If a hint is shown during the daily game then the share icon will have an indication (open envelop) that the hint was taken.
2024-07-11	Lots of confusion about the daily stats ... so we updated them to make it more clear The round durations are blue, the best score is green, and your score is red. In this example you can see I did good on round 1 as the red is on top of the green, I was close to the best in round 2, but in round 3 I wasn't even close to the best. Hope this clarifies the stats.
2024-07-06	Daily statistics update today! A friend once said to me "There are lies, down outright lies, and then their are statistics". So true! The "Stats" button, shown after playing the daily game, now shows the range of time for each round along with an indicator of how you've done in red. This example of the new statistics display shows the 3 rounds as gray bars. The bottom of each gray bar is the best and the top is the worst. The little red bar indicates how well I did vs. the range for each round. In this example I did well for round 1 and round 2 - probably the best. For round 3, however, I was about a minute slower than the best. Check this display toward the end of the day, or tomorrow, to see how well your time compares to everyone else.
2024-07-04	Big Update to SearchARoni today Accounts:The ability to create an account has been added. All that is needed is a name, email address, and a password. Creating an account has it's rewards - a free book of 100 puzzles! Virtual Books: The additional of virtual books allows you to play SearchARoni as much as you want! There are a few books now and more will be added in the near future. The free book is automatically added to your account when the account is created. The other books are available to purchase in the buy area (shopping bag icon) for a very low cost. We are in a giving mood during these early days - if you'd like to be "gifted" a book then drop a message to admin@searcharoni.com with your account information (email).
2024-06-19	"Search A Roni" is now live!! If you enjoy word search games then Search A Roni is for you. This game is a little different than your typical word search game in the following ways: Blocks of letters only contain one 5 letter word The game is to find WHERE the word is and WHAT the word is. The Search A Roni daily game is built to be a quick game - usually takes less than 10 minutes. There are 3 rounds that begin easy and then get a little harder. Each round is a different size block, e.g. 6x6, 8x8, 10x10. When the game is complete Search A Roni shows a image of the results. This image shows the amount of time each round takes along with a rating similar to the olympics - gold, silver, and bronze. Gold is less than 2 minutes, silver is between 2 and 5 minutes, and bronze is between 5 and 10 minutes. The triangle on the top of the olympic scale shows today's score and the triangle on the bottom of the scale shows the average score.

2024-11-14

Leaderboards

If you are interested in how your daily score compares to others then please check the leaderboard!

After playing the daily game there is a "Leaderboard..." button available
Initially, the leaderboard shows the results for today.
Your results will be highlighted (Like this)
Players that have an account will show their name - players without an account will have their player # shown
Click the buttons associated with "When" to see the results for this week, last week, this month, last month, and this year
Each week starts on Monday
When showing more than 1 day of results the average score is shown (hours:minutes:seconds)
When showing more than 1 day - consider using the "Show" buttons to see only those players that have > 1 game played

2024-10-29

Account Updates
If you have created a SearchARoni.com account there is good news for you! The "prefs" area now contains an "Account Update" tab that allows you to do the following:

Update your user name
Update your email address
Update your password

Notes:

If you are using your Google account then this account update should not be used.
To make any changes you must enter your current password into the "Currrent Pwd" text box.
Why change your user name? At some point in the future SearchARoni.com may show the names of players (e.g. top 10 sort of thing).
- Your email address is considered private and will not be shared.

2024-10-22

Facebook group anyone?
There is a new facebook group about Search A Roni ... https://www.facebook.com/groups/522957340505829

X community anyone?
There is a new X community about Search A Roni ... https://x.com/i/communities/1848422728388514218

Great forums for showing your results.

2024-10-16

The Border color!

The border color changes to indicate a significant amount of time has elapsed - 30 seconds, to be exact! The colors are changing to a random color - we hope your favorite colors are the ones you see!

2024-10-01

Rotate the block!

We've added a new feature to help make solving puzzles easier. These buttons, rotate left and rotate right, will rotate the block of letters 90 degrees. Doing this will may reveal a solution by changing the orientation from, say, going down to going to the right. Maybe this makes it too easy?

2024-09-14

Don't want to create a SearchARoni.com account - NO PROBLEM! You can now use your Google account.

If you have a "Google" account (doesn't everyone have one of these?) then you can use the new button on the "Existing Account" tab, "Sign in with Google".

The first time you login using your Google account ... you will receive a free virtual book of puzzles!
Just like with a searcharoni.com account ... when you return to searcharoni.com you'll be logged in and ready to play your virtual books.
To sign in using your Google account - click "Account" (upper right), then click "Existing Account", then click the "Sign in with Google" button.

2024-09-07

There have been many questions about who has the "best" time for the day. Good question!

The weekly statistics have been enhanced to indicate when your time for the day is "the best" or within 30 seconds of the best. Please note the following icon indications:

Your time is the best!

Your time is within 30 seconds of the best!

If you've played before the day is over it is possible that your best time may be surpassed by someone playing after you. Check back tomorrow to see for sure.

2024-09-05

New Book

Today we are happy to announce a new book with the theme of "School".

Each of the 5 letter solutions in the "School VBook" are words associated with school. There are 50 puzzles of 8x8 blocks. Playing the puzzles in this book is great for getting your brain in gear as the school year starts.

2024-09-04

First 3 Books

Virtual Books 1, 2, and 3 provide lots of puzzles of varying difficulty. VB#1 contains only 6x6 blocks which is a bit easier than VB#2 which is all 8x8 blocks. For those that like a challenge VB#3 offers all 10x10 blocks which are notoriously more difficult. Some say the 10x10 puzzles are nasty which is why the book cover has the look of toughness. For just a few dollars you can enjoy playing more and more searcharoni with these books - happy searching!

2024-08-18

Sharing results just got easier and more flexible. In addition to the "copy" button there is a new "share" button right next to the copy button. This works well on mobile devices by placing the results directly in the app you'd like to use for sharing. Happy Sharing!

2024-08-10

Prefs

Preferences are available to people that create an account. These preferences allow you to change the appearance of the puzzle area via the "background", "letters", and "hilight" colors.

Once in your account click the 'Prefs' tab, click your desired colors, then click 'Save'. Prior to saving please see the preview to see how nice the new display will be.

2024-07-27

New Book

Today we are happy to announce a new book with the theme of "Sports".

Each of the 5 letter solutions in the "Sports VBook" are words associated with sports. There are 50 puzzles of 6x6 and 8x8 blocks. Test your knowlege of sports with this fun book - at 99 cents it is a real bargain.

2024-07-15

HINTS!

For SearchARoni account holders ... hints are now available. The hints are "offered" after some time to provide you with a clue to the solution. There are limits to hints - only one hint per round, only one hint per book game.

There are 3 types of hints:

The direction of the solution
The first letter of the solution
The last letter of the solution

If a hint is shown during the daily game then the share icon will have an indication (open envelop) that the hint was taken.

2024-07-11

Lots of confusion about the daily stats ... so we updated them to make it more clear

The round durations are blue, the best score is green, and your score is red.
In this example you can see I did good on round 1 as the red is on top of the green, I was close to the best in round 2, but in round 3 I wasn't even close to the best.

Hope this clarifies the stats.

2024-07-06

Daily statistics update today! A friend once said to me "There are lies, down outright lies, and then their are statistics". So true!

The "Stats" button, shown after playing the daily game, now shows the range of time for each round along with an indicator of how you've done in red.

This example of the new statistics display shows the 3 rounds as gray bars. The bottom of each gray bar is the best and the top is the worst. The little red bar indicates how well I did vs. the range for each round. In this example I did well for round 1 and round 2 - probably the best. For round 3, however, I was about a minute slower than the best.

Check this display toward the end of the day, or tomorrow, to see how well your time compares to everyone else.

2024-07-04

Big Update to SearchARoni today

Accounts:The ability to create an account has been added. All that is needed is a name, email address, and a password. Creating an account has it's rewards - a free book of 100 puzzles!
Virtual Books: The additional of virtual books allows you to play SearchARoni as much as you want! There are a few books now and more will be added in the near future. The free book is automatically added to your account when the account is created. The other books are available to purchase in the buy area (shopping bag icon) for a very low cost.
We are in a giving mood during these early days - if you'd like to be "gifted" a book then drop a message to admin@searcharoni.com with your account information (email).

2024-06-19

"Search A Roni" is now live!!

If you enjoy word search games then Search A Roni is for you. This game is a little different than your typical word search game in the following ways:

Blocks of letters only contain one 5 letter word
The game is to find WHERE the word is and WHAT the word is.

The Search A Roni daily game is built to be a quick game - usually takes less than 10 minutes. There are 3 rounds that begin easy and then get a little harder. Each round is a different size block, e.g. 6x6, 8x8, 10x10.

When the game is complete Search A Roni shows a image of the results. This image shows the amount of time each round takes along with a rating similar to the olympics - gold, silver, and bronze. Gold is less than 2 minutes, silver is between 2 and 5 minutes, and bronze is between 5 and 10 minutes. The triangle on the top of the olympic scale shows today's score and the triangle on the bottom of the scale shows the average score.