A Count Word Search interior is not another word-list search. One word is printed above the grid. There is no bank of words to hunt. The solver’s job is to find every copy of that word and write how many in the answer box.
That is the whole Look Inside test. If the sample opens on a word bank, you have listed the wrong product. Standard Word Search is the list-and-find book. This one is the count.
Count Word Search is the generator. This article is the KDP listing: what the shopper sees, how long the file is, and why the first pages cannot look like a standard search. A generate walkthrough for this module is not live on the site yet — do not send readers to a create URL. The play guide is not live either; the rules that matter for the listing stay here.
What Look Inside has to show
Show a real counting page: a letter grid, the one target word in the title or instruction line, and an empty count box. No word list. No circled answers on the puzzle side.
The box has one square per digit of the highest count you allowed for the whole book, so every page shows the same number of squares. A two-square box on a page whose answer is 11 does not leak that this page is 11. It tells the shopper nothing about this page’s answer, and that is the point.
Copies run across, down, and on both diagonals — eight directions. They can cross and share letters. A palindrome that reads the same forwards and backwards is still one copy. There is always exactly one correct total on a finished grid.
The usual hidden-count range is about 10–14. You set the range. A book should vary it page to page so the answer is never predictable from the last page. A big count needs a big grid.
The printed title has to name the word. A grid and an empty box with no question is not a solvable page.
The solution page is part of the interior. The answer is the number, plus the marked copies. Not a leftover folder of images.
Page count is the product
Each puzzle is a pair: the counting page plus the marked solution. Page count is those pairs, not a pile of empty grids. A thirty-page kids set and a hundred-pair adult climb are different royalties and different Look Insides.
A series is easier here than it looks. Same box, same grid family, different single words (seasons, a classroom topic, a party word). The shopper who opens the first one knows what the next two are.
Puzzle Book Studio is the assembly step for trim, heads, and the key section. Instant Puzzle Books is the fast PDF. Do not turn this page into a Studio tutorial.
The four-channel map is the product-form article. A short Etsy pack (count-word-search-printables-etsy) or a TPT worksheet (tpt-count-word-search-worksheets) is a cut of the same count, not the KDP PDF with a new filename.
What not to sell this as
Do not sell it as a standard word search with the list removed. The product is the number.
Do not sell this listing as a website game. Online play is yes: Creative Interactive or Productivity Interactive. The seller publishes playable catalogs — JSON/HTML for the WordPress plugin or a self-hosted player — to a site they already own. The Amazon product is still the print interior. See the editions page. A default catalog is a menu. A finish-screen button is only there if you opted into a leveled game under Catalog Merge → Game Options. That extra is online-playable-count-word-search.
Commercial rights for books on KDP are part of the Puzzle Maker Pro license as stated on the homepage. That is not a substitute for Amazon’s content rules.
The whole point
A Count Word Search KDP book is an interior whose first pages show one word, a real grid, and an empty count box. Vary the totals, pair every page with a numbered key, and leave the list-hunt books to Standard Word Search.