9. The Sorcerer – Solution
In this puzzle, Heroes need to identify the pairs scrambled in each of the lines and extract an extra letter that doesn’t belong to either of the pairs. By extracting these extra letters, the Heroes can identify the additional item the Sorcerer added to the chimeras. The unscrambled pairs and the extra letters are as follows:
# | Clue | Scrambled | Word 1 | Word 2 | Extra Letter |
1 | Brothers | G L I R L I U O I M A | Mario | Luigi | L |
2 | Colleagues | O T S A N E L H M W E O S | Watson | Holmes | E |
3 | Comes as Pairs | S I S O C H E T P J N C S A M K | Chopsticks | Jeans | M |
4 | Parts of the Same Game Title | N D E O D O U S G N A S G N O R | Dungeons | Dragons | O |
5 | Hero & Villain | N K F A R D L N O G N O N I | Link | Ganondorf | N |
6 | Opposites | C O A V E D G T F I R Y T E | Victory | Defeat | G |
7 | Chris’ | S I R N V E N A E P | Pine | Evans | R |
8 | Sidekicks | O I T L A S N B I A R | Robin | Tails | A |
9 | Japanese Foods | G A I K S I T A I R Y N O I I | Onigiri | Taiyaki | S |
10 | Lovers | I O E R O L T M U E S J | Romeo | Juliet | S |
The extra letters, in order, spell out the answer to the puzzle: LEMONGRASS.