Daily Puzzle #019 - Solution

Keep in mind that many puzzles have more than one correct solution.

Spells can ultimately be used in a different order and get the same result.

As long as your solution follows the spell rules, uses all of the given spells, and creates the correct ending word, your solution is correct even if it doesn’t match the printed solution exactly.

End word: Captive found in caPRIS ON ERin. - PRISONER

Looking at the letter spells, we only have one Banish spell, so we will use most of the letters from the Start word to create the End word.

DUNGEON

PRISONER

The words have E, O, and N in common. None of the other letters in DUNGEON (DUNG) are alphabetically next to the ones we need (PRIS), but three are two letters away: U-S (U to T and T to S), N-P (N to O and O to P), and G-I (G to H and H to I). This leaves us with D to Banish, and will use all 6 of our Possess spells. Note: There are two Ns, so we have to choose one to change to P. Since P is the first letter of the End word, we should try changing the first N. Once we have done this, we have SPIEON.

Now, we only need two Rs, so we use our Summon spell for the R (SPIEONR), then use the Echo spell to get the second R (SPIEONRR).

Our movement spells consist of three Teleport spells.

We Teleport an R to the position after the P (SPRIEONR).

Teleport the S to the position after the I (PRISEONR).

Finally, Teleport the E to the position after the N (PRISONER).