Owen Wallace — Senior Editor

Owen Wallace is the Senior Editor of Word Search Explorer Answers, the complete free database of hidden-word solutions for every themed level of Word Search Explorer by PlaySimple Games. With over 94 million downloads, Word Search Explorer is one of the most widely played word-search games on mobile — and Owen has personally verified every single level in the database.

What He Does

For each Word Search Explorer level, Owen opens the level in the PlaySimple Games app, locates every hidden word in the grid, and records the complete list before publishing it here. Word Search Explorer hides words horizontally, vertically, diagonally, and sometimes backwards, so each level requires a methodical grid scan rather than a quick read. Owen uses a systematic approach — scanning each direction in order — to ensure no words are missed.

Each level also has a theme that connects all the hidden words: “Animals of Africa,” “Kitchen Appliances,” “Nobel Prize Winners.” Owen tags each level's theme when adding it to the database, making it searchable both by level number and by keyword. The Word Finder on the home page is built on this tag data: type any word and Owen's database returns every themed level where it appears.

Background

Owen has been a word-search enthusiast since childhood and began solving Word Search Explorer when PlaySimple Games launched it as a companion to Daily Themed Crossword. He noticed that existing answer resources only covered a fraction of the levels and often had errors, so he started building a complete, verified database from scratch. That database now covers every available level and is the foundation of this site.

His background in data management means the database is structured for both human browsing and programmatic search, which is why the Word Finder tool can return results across hundreds of levels in under a second.

About This Site

Word Search Explorer Answers is an independent fan site, unaffiliated with PlaySimple Games. All level data, themes, and word lists are verified by Owen personally. New levels are added to the database as PlaySimple releases them. Corrections and feedback: Contact page.