by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Three Trains Running
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Discuss word games, puzzles, and The Atlantic's Puzzler in our online forum. Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon may drop by from time to time.A train of words leaves from the square marked 1 and follows a track terminating in the diagram's southeast corner. Another train leaves from square 2 and terminates in the northwest corner. From that corner, marked 3, a third train departs on an inward journey that ends in the square marked 2; but unlike the others, this train happily switches tracks by shifting across a heavy line left, right, up, or down (never diagonally), thereby cross-checking some of the letters in tracks 1 and 2. When all three trains have run their tracks, letters in the circles, reading from top to bottom, will show what a puzzle like this offers. Answers include five capitalized words.
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