Puzzle: Big Hands

Solution: Undercover

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The list of letters forms a sentence with some letters removed. Each line break indicates at least one missing letter. The full sentence reads:

asnWer HIdes itSelf unTiL assEmBLing 13 cOWardly lettERs

By assembling the missing (cowardly) letters (capitalized above), you will spell out an appropriate 13-letter word, and the solution to this puzzle, WHISTLEBLOWER.

Hints: Undercover

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1. Some things are missing.
2. Try putting things in one line.
3. Read the first 5 letters. What could be missing here?
4. Look for the word "cowardly".

Big Hint: Thirteen letters were removed from the sentence, and the remaining letters have been re-chunked. Read the "cowardly letters" for the solution.

Puzzle: Undercover

Solution: Four of a Kind

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Each of the 16 images leads to a four-letter word. The 16 words are in alphabetical order:

acne, bulb, dial, glue
hula, kiss, note, pita
salt, test, thor, tool
tray, vane, well, wink

As suggested by "1xxx, x2xx, xx3x, xxx4", the 16 words can be grouped into sets of four, where the first group shares a common 1st letter, the second shares a common 2nd letter, etc. The four groups are:

Test, Thor, Tool, Tray
dIal, kIss, pIta, wInk
buLb, huLa, saLt, weLl
acnE, gluE, notE, vanE

Reading the four common letters in order (bolded above) spells out the four-letter solution, "TILE".

Hints: Four of a Kind

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1. Identify the pictures.
2. They are in alphabetical order.
3. The identifying words all contain the same number of letters.
4. Look for commonalities among sets of the words.

Big Hint: Group the words into four sets of four, using the pattern given: "1xxx, x2xx, xx3x, xxx4", then read the answer as "1234".

Puzzle: Four of a Kind