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SPEAKER 1: So let's take a
look at the hydrocross puzzle.

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So all we have to start with is this
very lovely colorful set of squares

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and nine words, no other clues.

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So you, kind of, have to figure out
where to get started on this one.

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And maybe if you did
some googling or you

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try to figure out that all of these
words have something in common,

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for example, they all
have to do with water

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or they're all related to water in some
way, that might have eventually lead

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you to realize that all of
these squares that you're seeing

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are actually a special kind of flag
called International Maritime signaling

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flags.

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And they all represent a very
specific letter of the alphabet.

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And you can find this list online.

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And once you do that, you can
actually translate, basically,

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what you're seeing here into this here,
and then basically, this, kind of,

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boils down to a simple word search.

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The real trick of this
puzzle is just figuring out

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what the heck those
squares actually mean.

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Then we can just, kind of, figure
out-- find all the words in the puzzle.

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So for example, we can find
aqua here, canal there,

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dam sort of goes diagonally like that.

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We have drain, moat, moist, soggy,
tarn, and then the very last word

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is tied which you're going to
see it, sort of, diagonally.

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We're going catch that E at the
bottom, but we've already circled

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all of the other letters.

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And that leaves us with five letters
that are not actually encircled or have

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never been captured by any other word.

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And if we read those, we get this
which does not make any sense at all.

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So what can we do?

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Well, we can just try
and unscramble them.

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Well, if we unscramble
them, we get two words

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and they're both related to water.

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But fortunately, this
puzzle gave the clue

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that the we're actually looking for
is the one that ends in a consonant,

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and that leaves ocean as
the answer to this puzzle.