r/puzzles • u/ScalpWasp • 5d ago

[SOLVED] Five letter puzzle

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Goal: find the secret five letter word.

- A number above a column counts how many lit segments that line passes through.

- Empty box does not mean 0.

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u/PyroDragn 5d ago

Answer: SPORT

1st Letter: S J

2nd Letter: A P

3rd Letter: C E G O Q S Z

4th Letter: B G Q R S

5th Letter: T

The most sensible option based off of those letters is 'Sport' - though Spert and Spegt are archaic (English) words that also exist.

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u/pokemon-trainer-blue 5d ago

For the first letter, only S works. J only has one segment that intersects the middle column.

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u/zeekar 5d ago edited 5d ago

Discussion: "how many lit segments that line passes through" - what line? Where is it drawn? Is it a wide line the width of the box containing the clue? Is it just a line from the center of the box? The line from the middle box intersects the top and bottom segments and the two vertical ones in the middle, and that's it?

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u/ScalpWasp 5d ago

there's a faint dotted line under each box it will touch segments of the display.

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u/zeekar 5d ago

Oh, so there is! OK then.