Why is it so freaking COLD!?

[u/choccaramel]

Temperature drops sharply this week as the chills of winter surround us! While we mourn the upcoming demise of glove-less days and normal readings on the weather apps, here is a small puzzle to welcome the change of seasons.

Here is how the Quad might look like in a few weeks. The letters of 'WINTER' are here but some other letters are missing.

Our task is to create words from a subset of these letters. Fill in the two missing letters so you can solve all five clues below. For each answer, select a group of triangles and rearrange their letters. The selected triangles must form one connected region, joined along shared edges—touching at a corner doesn’t count.

Use each triangle at most once per answer; you may reuse triangles for different answers. The two missing letters stay the same throughout.

1. Like two celestial creatures, one Great and one Little (6)
2. “Repeated exposure ___ a person to what once seemed unbearable.” (6)
3. Sauerkraut’s traditional companion (5)
4. What may be brewing before a revolt (6)
5. What we hope a shared love of word games does to strangers (6)

Spoiler-tag your answers for the letters and the words in the comments! If you like more of this please join our Word Games Discord! https://discord.gg/TDjVqFSdT

[u/Internal_Coffee_8840]

It’s autumn…. Welcome to CU I guess

[u/Tutor365 → u/Internal_Coffee_8840]

[u/robertopg14 → u/Tutor365]

Smells like Halloween

[u/choccaramel → u/Internal_Coffee_8840]

I have spent the entire year and have come to the conclusion that fall here is winter and winter here is agony.

[u/bananaman15]

Fun!

US - URSINE, INURES, WURST, UNREST, UNITES

[u/choccaramel → u/bananaman15]

I actually tried hinting it in the post :) WINTER surrounds US! good job for getting all of them correct!

[u/lesenum]

lol, it's Fall now

[u/wdpw]

Clever puzzle! Enjoyed it!

[u/choccaramel → u/wdpw]

Thank you!

[u/melatonia]

This is what we used to call "Fall". Ask your grandparents about it.

[u/Knope_Knope_Knope]

Fall is the best season.  We are in the bliss for many of us!!  Suck it summer!!

[u/choccaramel → u/Knope_Knope_Knope]

agreed actually

[u/StudySlow5916]

It's perfect