soup is a package for facilitating the creation of word search puzzles (aka alphabet soups) and variations using numbers or other symbols in LaTeX documents.

A puzzle is a field of random letters in which a set of words are hidden, and the reader seeks to find those words.

A F N H L P
K P L E F T
L P N L U W
G H A L C B
I M D O T F

In the above example soup, two words are hidden: hello and left.

The soup package generates alphabet soups, number soups, and soups built from a user-specified list of symbols.

Dependencies

It relies on the following packages:

• expl3
• xparse
• l3keys2e
• tikz (unless usetikz=false specified at load)

Dependency on tikz is somewhat optional as the basic features have also been implemented using a tabular environment.

Development Repository

The development repository for this package is hosted at https://gitlab.com/simers/soup

License

Copyright (C) 2017 by Thomas Simers

This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.