An online Count Word Search is a letter grid a visitor plays in the browser, on a site you already own. One word is named. There is no word list. The visitor finds every copy and the tally is the answer. Online play is yes: Creative Interactive or Productivity Interactive. The seller publishes playable catalogs — live JSON/HTML for the WordPress plugin or a self-hosted player — to a site they already own.
This page is the why — a playable extra on your domain. It is not a shop launch and not a generate walkthrough. Count Word Search is the generator. A create tutorial for this module is not live on the site yet; do not send readers to a create URL. The play guide owns the rules and is not live either, so keep this page off how-to-play. Upload steps already live in Publish a Puzzle Catalog.
This is not Standard Word Search (a list to hunt). The square-search embed article is Embed Interactive Word Search on WordPress. That is the list product. This is the count.
What the playable board is for
Website owners are not buying another paperback. They want a short counting grid a visitor can finish without leaving the page.
Typical jobs:
- A free sample next to a print count title (“play one, then get the book”).
- A lead-gen or membership extra on a site you already run.
- A practice path that is not a printed packet.
The page around it is yours: nav, email capture, whatever you put beside the catalog. The editions are Creative Interactive or Productivity Interactive, as stated on the editions page. Lifetime license is per product.
Match the print promise when you also sell a book or a worksheet. One word. Same count range. Same fill story. The usual hidden-count range is about 10–14; you set it. The target total is never shown on the board — the denominator is the answer.
What the embed has to be
It has to be obviously a count in the first five seconds: one word, a letter grid, a count box or tally, no word bank. If you need a rules lesson, that is the play guide, not this article.
It has to live on your site. The plugin publishes a catalog as its own page or in a post. One catalog plays per page.
It has to end in a way that works for you. A default catalog is a menu: the visitor picks a grid and goes back to the list. A completion panel and an end button appear only if you turn on a leveled game under Catalog Merge → Game Options. Do not count on a finish-screen CTA unless you opted into Game Options. Progress is local to that browser. Nothing comes back as a class dashboard. Do not sell it as an LMS.
A KDP Count Word Search interior (count-word-search-puzzle-book-kdp) is still the print book. An Etsy pack (count-word-search-printables-etsy) is still the PDF. A TPT page (tpt-count-word-search-worksheets) is still the worksheet. This is the site extra. Do not upload the book file and call it playable.
The four-channel map is the product-form article.
What this is not
This is not a replacement for print. Most count-word-search money is still books, printables, and worksheets. The embed is the second product: proof, sample, habit.
This is not a tutorial for the desktop app or the plugin. The catalog-upload page already exists.
This is not a shop page. Leave the buy button on the product listing.
When it is worth a page
You already have a site and you want a newest-module counting grid people can play on your domain. Put a short Count Word Search set on a page you control and keep the long file for KDP, Etsy, or TPT. Same word. Two products.
Commercial rights for puzzles on your own site are part of the Puzzle Maker Pro license as stated on the homepage.