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The cloud obscures three rays. What are they?


behind_the_clouds

SlowMagic
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Let's blow that cloud away...

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The missing rays (clockwise) are SL, REVI and WE!

Each word

Can loop round to the next, to form a new word, as shown in the sun above!

So the missing words:

The only word that ends in 'REWOLF' is WEREWOLF, so one of the missing rays is WE.

On the other side, we need a word that starts with 'GNAR'.

The middle ray can have 'EW' added to the end to form a word, and when reversed can add on the end of the 'GNAR' suffix.

So with that in mind, the missing rays are SL, REVI and WE, forming the following combos:

GNAR-LS, SL-IVER, REVI-EW, and WE-REWOLF!


’LED’ and ‘L’ also work instead of SL, creating ‘GNARL(ED)’ and ‘(DE)LIVER’ too!

Beastly Gerbil
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    Nice. I would have also accepted GNARLED, which also works within the context. – SlowMagic Sep 13 '22 at 01:55
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    @SlowMagic oh hadn’t even noticed that one! Big fan of your style of puzzles, keep it up! Lot of fun to do :) – Beastly Gerbil Sep 13 '22 at 02:18
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    just GNARL works, too – msh210 Sep 13 '22 at 06:59
  • @msh210 ha! An even simpler solution – Beastly Gerbil Sep 13 '22 at 10:37
  • @msh210 – Interesting. Neither GNARL nor GNARLS are in my 100,000-word dictionary. Only GNARLED, GNARLY, and GNARLIEST. – SlowMagic Sep 13 '22 at 14:13
  • Dang! Finally a cool puzzle I caught onto the purpose of quick, but I didn't read close enough and thought it was just 2 words so I wasted some time and couldn't figure it out so I looked at the answer :( – Jason Goemaat Sep 13 '22 at 23:46
  • @JasonGoemaat I also originally thought it was 2 just from the shape of the sun, then clocked the question said three, easy mistake! I often don't read questions properly too :) – Beastly Gerbil Sep 13 '22 at 23:59
  • @JasonGoemaat – I posted another one for you. Exactly the same rules. Go here: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/117994/behind-the-clouds-again – SlowMagic Sep 14 '22 at 15:36