[Puzzle] The Real Deal – 1 July 2024

The May-June metapuzzle, Gridlock!, has proven quite difficult. Hopefully the new hint will clear everything up. The solution to Five by Five, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has been posted as well.

The July-August puzzle set starts off easier with The Real Deal. Would you like to play a game?

This is your last chance to check out Grant Fikes’ seventh season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site. All seven puzzles and the meta now have hints posted, so head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.