Verified puzzle record
Progressive help for game #924, edited by Tracy Bennett.
This record identifies the published puzzle before any answer-level help appears. The facts below come from the normalized puzzle record and the verified paths used to build this page.
Top secret
This is the clue attached to game #924. Read it as the first hint level, then return to the board before opening a stronger reveal. This page does not add a definition or an interpretation that was absent from the puzzle record.
The board has 6 columns and 8 rows. Its 48 letters are shown in published row order.
Use the displayed letters as the solving surface. The page keeps every full answer below the final reveal, so scanning this board does not require passing through an answer list.
The four levels move from the published clue to the complete solution. Open one level, test the new information on the board, and stop as soon as you can continue on your own.
Choose how much help you want. Each stronger level stays closed until you select its reveal button.
Published theme
This is the theme clue exactly as published with the puzzle. Try another pass across the board before moving to the next level.
Spangram pattern
The spangram has 10 letters, begins with U, ends with R, and its verified path runs left to right.
Use those constraints together. The two boundary letters narrow possible starts and finishes, while the direction describes which opposite board edges the verified path reaches. The connected route may still bend between those edges.
Theme word patterns
Compare a mask with unresolved regions of the board. A mask confirms the shape of one verified theme answer, but it does not supply the missing letters or a meaning that was not present in the source record.
Complete solution
UNDERCOVER
Verified spangram
AGENT
Verified theme answer
ASSET
Verified theme answer
COUNTERSPY
Verified theme answer
MOLE
Verified theme answer
OPERATIVE
Verified theme answer
PLANT
Verified theme answer
This profile records each revealed word's length and endpoints, using the same verified coordinate paths as the published board.
The spangram and theme-answer paths together use all 48 board cells, confirming the completed grid without adding an unsupported interpretation.
Use each revealed word's letter count and endpoints to trace its exact route on the board. That geometry shows how the listed theme words interlock around the spangram and complete this puzzle.
The final set contains 6 theme answers and one spangram. The theme answers range from 4 to 10 letters.
The verified theme-answer length distribution is: 1 answer with 4 letters; 3 answers with 5 letters; 1 answer with 9 letters; 1 answer with 10 letters.
These counts describe the normalized answer set without naming a word. Use the distribution to compare the open regions of the board with the lengths that remain. The spangram's exact pattern stays in level 2, and the theme-answer masks stay in level 3.
Before publishing this page, the validator checked the puzzle date and confirmed that the board has 6 columns and 8 rows. It compared every stored coordinate with the letter at that board position.
The validator also checked that consecutive coordinates are adjacent, that no final answer reuses a cell, and that the complete set covers exactly 48 cells. A record that misses a cell, overlaps a solved path, or jumps between nonadjacent cells does not pass those checks.
The values on this page come from that validated record. The template uses the prepared counts, dimensions, direction, and masks rather than recalculating them while it renders the HTML.
There are 6 theme words. The spangram is separate from that count.
The exact length is inside the level 2 spangram pattern reveal. Open that panel only when you want a stronger hint.
The verified direction is inside the same level 2 reveal, beside the first and final letters.
The spangram and all theme words are in the complete solution reveal at the end of the hint path. That panel starts collapsed.