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The Canterbury Puzzles

by Henry Ernest Dudeney

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51 The Secret Lock

This puzzle entailed the finding of an English word of three letters, each letter being found on a different dial. Now, there is no English word composed of consonants alone, and the only vowel appearing anywhere on the dials is Y. No English word begins with Y and has the two other letters consonants, and all the words of three letters ending in Y (with two consonants) either begin with an S or have H, L, or R as their second letter. But these four consonants do not appear. Therefore Y must occur in the middle, and the only word that I can find is “PYX,” and there can be little doubt that this was the word. At any rate, it solves our puzzle.

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