3.9: You'll Understand (Solution)

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Author: Roger Barkan

25 letters are shown, with the exception of L.  "No L" and the red and
green are meant to evoke the theme of Christmas.  Shifting each letter by
the number adjacent to it, e.g. 1E becomes F, and grouping by color and
scrambling gives four words.  The red letters spell TWELVE DAYS and the
green letters spell EXAMINE PRESENTS.  If you replace each number with the
nth letter of the nth days present, i.e. 10 = lords a-leaPing = P, the
screen spells out

SAMPLE

LAPPS
ANIMALS
PULL
ANS

Lapp's animals are reindeer, Ans is short for answer, and given the
Christmas theme, Reindeer pull ___ is of course a SLEIGH.