Highlighter traces on a sheet of paper

Question

_{This is an entry for the 16^th Fortnightly Challenge.}

My friend was solving a puzzle but took the puzzle with him. However, he was solving it with highlighters and they left traces on the paper below the puzzle.

Here is the paper:

What was the puzzle?

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '16 at 17:36

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It looks like a

Word Search,

both from the patterns of the lines

horizontal, vertical, and both diagonals

and from the fact that they were using a highlighter.

answered Sep 20 '16 at 17:36

Sconibulus

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Can you clarify why would you use around five different kind of colors for such a task? – Matsmath Sep 20 '16 at 17:40
Perhaps he's just a colourful fellow. – Ian MacDonald Sep 20 '16 at 17:41
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That is a correct answer! – Maria Ivanova Sep 20 '16 at 17:42
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That was my first thought even though I circle my letters in pencil rather than anything else :P – dcfyj Sep 20 '16 at 17:43
There are several places where 3 words overlap, which explains why more than 1. If you're using one, you might as well use multiple, and 5 seems as reasonable a number as 3 to have on hand. – Sconibulus Sep 20 '16 at 17:44
In elementary school, teachers would do their solution in highlighter and hold up your paper with theirs behind it up to the light. It made it easy to verify you had everything. – corsiKa Sep 20 '16 at 22:19

Highlighter traces on a sheet of paper

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