Pazurgo

Pazurgo is a word puzzle which normally takes the form of a rectangular grid with white and shaded squares. Pazurgo includes elements from Crossword puzzles and Word Search puzzles, along with the addition of its own unique elements.
The goal is to solve each of the clues by finding the solution word in the grid by forming a chain linking the letters of the word together. Once all of the solution word chains have been discovered, the remaining available letters form the solution to the Scramble clue, when those letters are unscrambled in the correct order.
History.
The idea for Pazurgo came to Jeremy L Graybill in 2003 while he was playing the piano one day. The first book of Pazurgo puzzles "Pazurgo The Amazing New Word Puzzle" was published by Tuttle Publishing, with an international release date of September 10, 2010. A Flash application for solving Pazurgo puzzles was created in 2009, and is available for use with some free puzzles at www.Pazurgo.com. The Pazurgo trademark is held internationally by Graybill, and the puzzle design is patent pending.
Solving Pazurgo Puzzles.
Instructions.
The steps for solving Pazurgo puzzles becomes intuitive while solving the initial puzzle. Pattern recognition and logic skills used in Word Searches and Sudoku are useful in solving Pazurgo puzzles.
Example.
In the basic example shown here:
Types of Puzzles.
Themed Puzzles.
Many Pazurgo puzzles contain a "theme", and all of the clues and words within that puzzle belong to that theme. As an example, the puzzle "At the Zoo" available at www.Pazurgo.com contains a theme of animals seen at the zoo, including:
CHEETAH
CROCODILE
GORILLA
POLARBEAR
Non-Themed Puzzles.
Many Pazurgo puzzles contain "random" clues and words, and the words do not all belong to a single theme. The clues for this type of puzzle are similar in concept to many "non-themed" Crossword puzzles. Non-Themed puzzles do not generally include a puzzle title.