The goal of a Mix & Match puzzle is to reconstitute a set of nine 9-letter words. Below are two separate puzzles. In one, each word has had three bigrams removed; in the other, each word has had two quadgrams removed. Each includes a table to fill out and a set of n-grams with which to fill it up. Using each n-gram once, fill the blanks in the table to form various nine-
| __ | KJ | __ | __ | S |
| __ | CE | __ | __ | M |
| __ | GG | __ | __ | B |
| __ | HE | __ | __ | L |
| __ | NT | __ | __ | Y |
| __ | EO | __ | __ | C |
| __ | OL | __ | __ | G |
| __ | MI | __ | __ | S |
| __ | CE | __ | __ | H |
| AR | EP | RA |
| AS | ET | RE |
| AT | EX | TH |
| BO | IN | TI |
| CE | IS | TI |
| DE | IU | UM |
| ED | JI | VE |
| EE | ME | VE |
| EN | NN | VO |
| ____ | ____ | L |
| ____ | ____ | T |
| ____ | ____ | T |
| ____ | ____ | C |
| ____ | ____ | T |
| ____ | ____ | W |
| ____ | ____ | D |
| ____ | ____ | D |
| ____ | ____ | S |
| CIPA | OCRA |
| DENS | OVER |
| ENER | PRIN |
| ENES | PROM |
| GIES | SIGN |
| IFIE | SLAN |
| INEN | THRE |
| NETI | THRO |
| OCHL | VATE |
If you think you’ve figured out all the answers
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| H | A | M | E | B | A | ||||
| E | M | S | O | L | D | ||||
| S | I | T | M | A | S | ||||
| U | M | L | A | U | T | ||||
| S | P | A | N | T | S | ||||
| R | I | D | O | ||||||
| N | A | I | L | ||||||
| E | L | S | E | ||||||
| B | A | C | K |
Each of the puzzlemeisters below will receive some moderately desirable SpecGram merch:
Misa Gonzalez • Vincent Fish • Pete Bleackley
In addition, the following puzzlers have achieved the everlasting glory that comes with an honorable mention:
Annegien Wilms • Aoife Ó Briain • Rowena Bautista