The objective of this brain puzzle is to find all the meaningful words hidden inside the Labyrinth. Find the co-articulated words hidden in each grid. The word search may run in a straight line in all directions: horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The hidden words may be read either forward or backwards. Because the words share one or more letters, they are co-articulated words.
In a Labyrinth (=a type of word-square puzzle), there are no blank spaces between words (Scriptio continua), so you can not recognize (or distinguish), the formal parts of each word. The initial segment or the end of a word are not separated but are overlapped [CO-ARTICULATED words].
The number of overlapping letters differs from the direction of the reading. Because the words are disconnected (not like in the speech chain), the written chain (snake word) is allowing flexibility. The reader can choose from which direction texts can be read, horizontally, vertically and diagonally.
We do not read words letter by letter but as a whole. When we read a text we just identify the first and the last letter of each word (it does not matter the order of the other letters inside the word). Also, in a bidirectional text, it is important the writing/reading direction. There are four situations used (simultaneously) in the Labyrinth:
-key A - the right-to-left top-to-bottom writing system, combined with the left-to-right bottom-to-top writing system. ACROSS (horizontally) [ ??], [??], [?? ], [? ?], forwards or backwards.
-B - a vertically writing system, from top-to-bottom and from bottom-to-top, from left-to-right combined with a right-to-left direction. DOWN (vertically) [?], [?], forwards or backwards.
-C - diagonally, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top [?], [ ?], forwards or backwards.
-D - diagonally, from right-to-left, top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top [?], [?], forwards or backwards.
(Coarticulation refers to a situation in which an isolated speech sound is influenced (=co-articulated) by a preceding or a following speech sound). Co-articulated meaningful words must be separated from ''junk words'' (meaningless signs, non-words). Unlike the chain of speech, this type of written word contains, in some places, and small pyramids of words (=words within words), so it is more than a snake-word chain or a word search puzzle.
