Quote from Alex55 on Thursday 1st August, 2019, 17:23

I've tried many five letter words. Any hint? 

Quote from kisanna12 on Thursday 15th August, 2019, 12:50

Alex55,
Look only at the ones that point clockwise: peath, duath, deach, keath
Have you identified the common word (from which each differ one letter only)?
[spoiler]take the four clockwise words, you get one letter from each (the difference from "death") read those clockwise and you get the four letter answer[/spoiler]

Quote from f2ilbardo on Saturday 17th August, 2019, 20:04

Quote from kisanna12 on Thursday 15th August, 2019, 12:50

Alex55,
Look only at the ones that point clockwise: peath, duath, deach, keath

In my copy of the book the 4 words pointing clockwise are: peath, duach, deach, dkatk.

So it's basically unsolvable. Is there an errata somewhere?

Dan.

Quote from morbus on Monday 9th September, 2019, 18:34

@f2ilbardo: Based on your four words, it's not unsolvable but... What are the lowercase letters in your four words?

Quote from kisanna12 on Friday 13th September, 2019, 07:44

OK, they might be different editions then.
For me, this worked:

[spoiler]each clockwise pointing word differed in only one letter from "death"[/spoiler]