We are given 9 wheels, each labeled “Wheel of Y”. No matter how many time we spin the wheels, they always land on the black sector.
A few insights are needed to break into the puzzle.
By using the losing word to align the X phrase (remember wheels are cyclic), we can place a single letter in each colored sector.
Boy Scouts of America | |||||||||
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B | O | Y | S | C | OUT | S | |||
The Triplets of Belleville | |||||||||
T | H | E | T | RIP | L | E | T | S | |
Crack of Dawn | |||||||||
C | R | ACK | |||||||
Soldier of Fortune | |||||||||
SOL* | D | I | E | R | |||||
Admission of Guilt | |||||||||
A | D | MISS | I | O | N | ||||
Frame of Reference | |||||||||
F | R | A | M | E | |||||
Colossus of Rhodes | |||||||||
C | O | LOSS | U | S | |||||
Comptroller of the Currency | |||||||||
C | O | M | P | TROLL | E | R | |||
Diet of Worms | |||||||||
DIE | T |
Each prize symbol appears exactly 5 times aggregated across the wheels, once each in 5 of the 6 colors. If we order the letters for each prize in rainbow order, there is a unique 6 letter word that can fit with the missing color as a blank. The letters used here spell out AMATTERO, but we're not done yet.
At this point, we have the prize icons, and the words obtained from aggregating and ordering the colors. Each icon and word pair can be combined to get an associated object or entity. If we index the prize amounts (in hundreds) into these associated words, we get the letters FLIFEAND.
Prize | ROYGBP | Missing | Full ROYGBP | Association | Amount | Indexed |
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M_SCOT | A | MASCOT | FREDBIRD | 1 | F | |
SODIU_ | M | SODIUM | LITHIUM | 1 | L | |
PONYT_ | A | PONYTA | RAPIDASH | 4 | I | |
MO_HER | T | MOTHER | FANTINE | 1 | F | |
LE_TER | T | LETTER | HIEROGLYPH | 3 | E | |
TRIB_S | E | TRIBES | ISRAEL | 4 | A | |
A_CADE | R | ARCADE | PACMAN | 6 | N | |
S_CCER | O | SOCCER | SOUNDERS | 5 | D |
Reading out the missing letters followed by the indexed letters, we get A MATTER OF LIFE AND, which is a cluephrase that completes to DEATH.