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Eightfold #24 answer

Monday, 2 November 2026

The hidden word: SOFTWARE

The path, letter by letter: S (row 4, column 5), O (row 5, column 4), F (row 4, column 4), T (row 5, column 3), W (row 4, column 2), A (row 4, column 3), R (row 3, column 3), E (row 2, column 4). Each step moves to a touching square, diagonals included, and no square is used twice.

Other words hiding in the grid: ANYWAY, DWARFS, FREEST, HEROES, NEARER, DWARF, and 114 shorter words in total.

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