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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.

See The Solution Submitted by brianjn    
Rating: 4.0000 (1 votes)
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Solution in the square | Comment 2 of 5 |
Starting with the 10-10-26 column, we see 26 can only be L or N. The only available vowel is U, so the 26 can't be L, and thus must be N. The only possibilities for the second 10 are U and R.

Looking at 3-26-11, the only ending letter that could make a word is T, and so 3-26-11 must be ANT.

Then 9-11-11 ends in T, so the second letter must be E to form a word.

8-10-11 can be RUE (with 6-8-3 being BRA) or 8-10-11 can be ORE (with 6-8-3 being BOA)

However, if 8-10-11 were RUE, then there would be no vowels to use for 6-10-9. So 8-10-11 must be ORE, with 6-8-3 being BOA.

Then 10-10-26 must be URN, so 6-10-9 is BUS, and 9-11-11 is SET.

BUS
ORE
ANT

  Posted by Gamer on 2008-05-23 19:00:02
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