If we try to find the words, we can get close, but find out that we’re always off by one or two letters. Furthermore, those letters are always P, N, B, R, Q, or K. Combined with the name of the place (Checkerboard Cross) and the flavor text that says to move some pieces, we can tell that chess is involved. According to the flavor text, we move letters representing chess pieces around, letting them jump over other letters even if they’re not knights. We move only as many pieces as we need to to find the words. By the title, the movements should form a loop. We then start at the left of the loop and go around it, extracting a letter from the left each time before we make a move. The solutions to the word searches are shown below:

1.
S
C
J
E
I
G
V
N
L
K
Y
F
E
L
S
K
L
N
J
E
R
G
A
C
E
B
C
U
W
S
A
T
B
Y
L
F
T
E
S
S
O
E
M
G
D
T
U
N
S

BELLS
NETS
RULES
2.
F
C
E
S
H
K
N
H
H
X
E
E
Q
B
X
E
U
T
U
B
T
W
R
R
A
H
E
Y
M
U
D
I
J
A
R
T
B
G
A
H
R
R
P
D
N
M
F
S
G

CHERUB
QUAD
BEARS
3.
G
C
C
T
K
H
O
P
I
H
B
E
B
B
E
D
N
U
M
E
N
M
D
Z
E
U
P
N
J
T
G
S
C
A
O
D
S
H
E
T
N
Q
K
N
X
F
D
R
N
R
I
H
O
J
M
K
A
P
P
A
R
R
V
D
G
L
D
U
A
L
P
S
A
R
J
Z
T
I
B
L
J

CENTER
EBBED
KAPPA
RING
PRONOUN
4.
T
C
X
J
I
S
D
F
I
E
A
E
D
U
J
U
O
B
W
O
R
B
F
O
F
Q
O
K
B
R
M
N
B
G
A
F
T
P
E
N
P
R
S
H
D
W
V
L
S

ROBES
ROBED
5.
F
K
P
A
T
I
V
I
L
E
A
N
J
Y
W
R
U
T
R
K
R
E
Q
U
H
A
Q
G
S
H
Y
X
G
J
V
X

SQUAT
ARRAY
6.
X
T
E
H
Y
Q
H
S
K
L
U
W
F
U
V
E
D
X
I
R
B
A
S
P
P
E
R
R
X
P
C
W
G
T
T
M

QUEBEC
7.
V
A
L
M
S
M
P
H
S
P
E
B
L
G
E
J
E
R
F
R
E
T
N
T
D
A
N
D
G
C
E
P
A
Z
R
Q
N
H
B
F
X
T
T
H
V
I
O
Y
Y

SEEN
GRAPH
BANE
8.
M
D
G
T
Y
L
W
J
E
X
R
E
B
Y
T
N
A
G
E
R
E
R
I
E
Q
L
A
E
P
A
U
H
H
I
T
N
R
T
Q
S
N
M
K
B
D
C
Z
P
B

BRAIN
GREAT
RAINED
QUIT
9.
P
I
R
T
N
D
G
P
T
N
Y
H
J
E
N
A
R
O
K
E
B
L
I
F
D
B
M
F
A
S
E
M
L
A
L
H
G
D
B
B
P
S
Z
U
H
Q
U
U
A
N
N
I
E
M
D
N
Q
K
O
N
R
S
C
L
E
V
O
E
B
X
N
L
F
S
L
F
S
G
T
V
K

ANNIE
DUNES
BEING
HERBS
BLUES
10.
K
L
O
K
E
Y
S
L
F
R
H
Q
N
N
K
S
O
D
U
L
O
F
I
R
P
A
P
R
P
O
M
U
L
J
A
X
V
S
P
O
B
B
K
G
X
I
R
P
R
M
M
R
L
E
O
B
S
H
L
S
M
W
V
Z

BARONS
KEYS
EQUAL
IMPROV


We end up extracting LET THE MAKBED BOON KE RY THE NEXT DNEADED BISHON, which almost makes sense. Let’s put the letters into the final grid:

C
E
V
B
H
L
O
F
N
S
E
A
L
L
E
T
T
H
E
M
A
K
B
Y
W
E
D
B
O
O
N
K
E
R
Y
N
R
T
H
E
N
E
X
T
D
N
E
T
S
A
D
E
D
B
I
S
H
O
N
C
O
L
E
Q
H
U
V
O
I
S
P
T


It’s another piece-moving puzzle. But this time, according to the text, we move all the P’s, N’s, B’s, R’s, Q’s, and K’s, and we don’t extract by looking to the left. We also notice that the rooks, as indicated by the emphasized r’s, move as far as they can.

C
E
V
Q
H
L
O
F
K
S
E
A
L
L
E
T
T
H
E
M
A
N
N
Y
W
E
D
R
O
O
K
B
E
B
Y
N
B
T
H
E
N
E
X
T
D
R
E
T
S
A
D
E
D
B
I
S
H
O
P
C
O
L
E
N
H
U
V
O
I
S
N
T


Now we read off the answer, LET THE MANNED ROOK BE BY THE NEXT DREADED BISHOP.