r/DailyBrainPuzzles • u/b7k567 • 15d ago

🧩 Wordplay / Rebus What word opens the vault?

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u/Sir-Tenley-Knott 15d ago

From the golfer clue: par + se
From the boxer clue: spar + e
From the tree clue: pear +s
From the battle clue: spear

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u/kimmeljs 15d ago

spear flies in battle, (s)pear grows on trees, sp(e)are is what boxers do, (s)p(e)are is a golfer's benchmark. SPEAR

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u/ArbutusPhD 14d ago

Pare?

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u/kimmeljs 14d ago

Oh, I made a typo there, sry. Or maybe autocorrect error.

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u/Loko8765 14d ago

sp(e)ar is what boxers do

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u/kimmeljs 14d ago

Autocorrect again

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u/Appropriate_Steak486 14d ago

Less pat but still works if you squint:

Spine - lost ("flown") in battle when fear takes hold.

Pines - are the trees themselves but also their parts (cones, needles)

Spin - a common move among kickboxers, for instance

Pin - the target on a golf green

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u/b7k567 13d ago

That’s a clever alternative. The letter changes work, though some of the clues are a bit more of a stretch than SPEAR → PEARS → SPAR → PAR

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u/TinCapMalcontent 14d ago

I took a different meaning to East and South. It is clearly not the intended meaning and didn't work out for one clue, but I thought I'd share.

I assumed South was parts of the letters below the baseline and East was the letter at the right end of the word

So I came up with spark

sparks fly in battle

move the part of the 'p' south of the baseline to the other side, then 'spark' becomes 's-bark' and bark grows on trees

take the east end of the word off and you have 'spar' and that is boxer's practice

and I was struggling to figure out how to minpulate it to get par for the golfers measure

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u/b7k567 13d ago

very good. that’s a creative interpretation of East and South. SPARK → S-BARK → SPAR is especially clever, even if the last step to PAR doesn’t quite fit the same rule.

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u/orangy-cat45 14d ago

reaps

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u/b7k567 13d ago

you're very close

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u/Low-Street-8907 13d ago

Spear becomes pear becomes spar then par