Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for mystery
The synonym for mystery recorded in this bank is secret, in the sense "something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for mystery
- secretnoun, in the sense "something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and mystery carries one sense so far.
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
How it got out is a mystery.
The true synonym
secret
Same sentence, swapped: How it got out is a secret.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where mystery stands in the sentence above.
- whodunit
- maze
- dilemma
Where mystery turns up in the game
mystery is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where mystery is the trap
- scrapenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is scratch, in the sense "a harsh noise made by scraping", with mystery sitting one tile away.
Play mystery
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mystery reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
mystery is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.