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Gyro-Lattice 2- Threes (Posted on 2008-05-23) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Please reflect upon "Gyro-Lattice 1 - Arrows" at puzzle 6061.
The rotations available are:
- [V] vertical [red]
- [H] horizontal [magenta]
- [R] right-down diagonal [green]
- [L] left-down diagonal [salmon]

A 3 x 3 section of the LED lattice is activated. 9 different letters have been
entered so that 3 words are read horizontally, and 3 vertically down.

Each letter is scrambled with just two programmed operations,
being V: ± 1 and H: ×/÷ 2.

Only values A=1... Z=26 are available; operations generating fractions or need for wraparound are void. Also one operation with V is paired with one of H. eg:
   T(20) → H÷ plus V+ → K(11)
   M(13) → V+ plus H÷ → G(7)

Unscramble this lattice:
  
    6  10   9      F J I
    8  10  11      H J K
    3  26  11      C Z K
Note: Any initial number may have up to 8 legitimate outputs

Reminder! Three words across and three down, and all letters unique.

  Submitted by brianjn    
Rating: 4.0000 (1 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
Valid outputs for the numbers, and their characters, are:
 3 - 1,2,4,5,7,8      A,B,D,E,G,H 
 6 - 2,4,10,11,13,14  B,D,J,K,M,N 
 8 - 3,5,14,15,17,18  C,E,N,O,Q,R
 9 - 4,5,16,17,19,20  D,E,P,Q,S,T
10 - 4,6,18,19,21,22  D,F,R,S,U,V
11 - 5,6,20,21,23,24  E,F,T,U,W,X
26 - 12,14            L,N
With Z having only two values that's an optimum place to start.
ALT,ALE,ELF and ANT are possible starts.
In  Operations  Out
 6    H÷  V-     2   B
10    H×  V+    21   U 
 9    V+  H×    19   S
 8    H×  V-    15   O
10    V-  H×    18   R
11    V-  H÷     5   E
 3    V-  H÷     1   A
26    H÷  V+    14   N
11    V-  H×    20   T

      BUS
      ORE
      ANT
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  Subject Author Date
re: Dereliction of DutyDej Mar2008-05-26 05:29:50
Dereliction of Dutybrianjn2008-05-26 03:27:10
SolutionSolutionDej Mar2008-05-24 02:29:33
Solution in the squareGamer2008-05-23 19:00:02
Hint: possible lettersGamer2008-05-23 18:41:20
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