Canuckle · Classic

Canuckle Classic hints for · #1237

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The answer

What it means
“Various formerly nomadic Native American tribes of the North American Great Plains.”

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The middle letter
The middle letter is O.

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Vowels and repeats
Three vowels. No letters repeat.

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How it ends
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the second, third and fourth letters.

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Reveal the answer
SIOUX

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Compare the letters after solving

For SIOUX, the pattern __O_X fixes positions 3 and 5. It matches 2 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: BLONX, CHOUX.

No other word in this dictionary differs from this answer at just one position.

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The Canadian connection might be geography, culture, nature or everyday life. A word can fit the letter feedback without being the day's themed answer.

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Also on October 2, 2025

Source and record information

Recorded from the existing verified source adapter. Source retrieved .

The resumed schedule starts at number 143 on 4 October 2022. Both document ID and the publisher's index must match. Earlier paused-era puzzles are outside this contract.

Letter clues and worked solving examples are deterministic calculations. Record revision: 9567c17018c4.

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