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Trail Mix

AT Edition

Part 1

The Wordle Warm-Up

Find the two secret 5-letter trail words using the colored boxes from the practice guesses.Right spotWrong spotNot in word

Hint: A man-made stack of rocks guiding your way when hiking in the alpine zones above the treeline.

C
L
I
M
B
C
H
A
I
R

Hint: The painted rectangular mark on a tree that tells an Appalachian Trail hiker they haven't wandered off the path.

M
A
P
L
E
B
R
A
V
O
Part 2

The Spangram Grid

Take your two 5-letter hiking words and find them in the grid. Like the app Strands, every single letter will be used exactly once. Letters connect up, down, left, or right (no diagonals). Click letters to trace words!

Your Checklist:

  • 1Find CAIRN (your first Wordle answer)
  • 2Find BLAZE (your second Wordle answer)
  • 3Find the Spangram! A 9-letter word for someone hiking the entire 2,190-mile trail in a single season. It touches the Left edge and snakes to the Right edge.
Part 3

The Final Buzzer

Once you have found all three words, exactly 6 letters will be left untouched. Start at the letter ā€œVā€ in the top-left corner, and follow the connecting path of the leftover letters.

What color did you find?