Find Me If You Can: Cadet - Level I

One of these names is guilty. Cross out the wrong one, and the real culprit walks free.

A con artist who has worn six names in six cities is hiding inside this casebook — one alias tucked into a grid with fifteen people who never did a single thing wrong. There's a letter, of course. There's always a letter. It dares you to find the one name that's a lie.

Your tools: one hundred word-search grids and ten clues, every one of them true. Find every name, then let the clues do the cutting — this name crosses a shorter one, that name runs backward, this one hides three vowels. One by one, fifteen hundred suspects fall to a handful, then to one.

But you have to be perfect. Miss a single cross and an innocent takes the fall while the real culprit walks — and the only one who'll ever know you got it wrong is the culprit.

For fans of logic-grid deduction, classic word searches with a spine of real reasoning, and the cat-and-mouse of Catch Me If You Can.

Open the file and start the hunt today.

Tropes & Vibes:
• Elimination whodunit • Fair-play deduction • Word search with a twist • Con-artist cat-and-mouse • 1960s FBI dossier aesthetic • One hidden culprit • Clue-by-clue logic • Solve-anywhere standalone

Difficulty: Level I — Cadet (beginner-friendly)
Grid Size: 15 x 15
Puzzles: 100 word searches
Suspect Pool: 1,500 names
Clues: 10-clue elimination trail (verified to exactly one answer)
Format: 6 x 9 paperback · full answer key + final reveal included
Series: Book 1 of Find Me If You Can — new culprit each book, read in any order
Content Notes: Fictional mystery framing; common given names used for puzzle construction only.

Somewhere in every book, a con artist hid a name — and dared you to find it.

Find Me If You Can is a word-search mystery series with a spine of real logic. Each book hides one culprit inside a hundred grids of innocent names. You find the names, then apply a set of true clues — crosses a shorter name, runs backward, three vowels — eliminating suspects one by one until a single name is left standing.

It's not an ordinary word search. It's a fair-play hunt you solve with a pencil, styled like a 1960s FBI case file, right down to the letter the culprit leaves you in every book.

Every level is a brand-new case with a brand-new culprit — so you can start anywhere, or climb the ranks:

• Cadet · Level I — 15×15 grids, 1,500 suspects, 10 clues. Your first case. Beginner-friendly.
• Agent · Level II — 20×20 grids, 2,500 suspects, 14 clues. The trail gets longer and the margin thinner.
• Special Agent in Charge · Level III — 20×20 grids, 3,500 suspects, 15 clues. The hardest file the Bureau hands out.

Pick the level that fits you — or take all three and work your way from rookie to the top of the Bureau. Every book leaves you a full answer key and a final reveal, so you always find out whether you caught the right name… or let an innocent take the fall.

One wrong cross and the name's gone by morning. Think you can find it? Grab your case file — or the whole set — today.