Dec. 29, 2022

CONUNDRUM | January 2023 | What's the Password?

CONUNDRUM | January 2023 | What's the Password?

Solution: Take notice of the following things…the colored squares on the door, the grid of letters where presumably you will find the password, the grid of arrows, and finally the line under the question, “WHAT DO YOU SAY?” with different colors under certain letters.

The colored squares on the door each represent a letter in the password. The first color is red. There is a red line under the letter “D” in the underlined question. The next square is blue which corresponds to the letter “A”. If you do this with all the squares, then you get D A U H Y which is nonsense and obviously not the password.

But the grid of arrows and the grid of letters! Start again with red and the letter “D” underlined in red. Find the D in the letter grid and using the row of arrows starting with the red arrow move through the letters in the directions indicated by the arrows. So starting with the “D” move left, left, down, up, down and finally left to land on the letter “F”. That is the first letter in the password.

The next square is blue and the letter underlined in blue is "A". Starting with the only "A" in the grid move in the direction the row of arrows starting with the blue arrow tells you to move and you end up with the letter "L". If you do the same with each colored square on the board, you end up with the password: FLAME

Thanks for playing this month’s CONUNDRUM and remember to choose to be kind and always stay curious!