Replace the ?’s in each of these to complete the puzzle:
Part 1
“Asia” is H
“Cuffs” is S
“Ender” is I
“Redness” is F
“Fuchsia” is ?
Part 2
“Using” is E
“Desist” is I
“Visits” is E
“Design” is ?
Part 3
“Gross” is W or R
“Assign” is S
“Amassing” is E
“Design” is S
“Amassing” is S
“Arrows” is ? or ?
Part 4
“Pro-tem” and “row” are H
“Ties” is K
“Cohesion” is A
“Casino” is E
“Hocks” is either a word, name, ? or ?
Part 5
“Edna” is I
“Slang” is X
“Siege” is E
“Basin” is X
“Sin” is X
“Sin” is A
“Besiege” is X
“Signals” is ? and ?
Source: Matt Malone on Puzzling StackExchange (spoiler warning: contains the solution)
Hint
Each part is unrelated to the other parts, but you apply the same logic to each part to find the solution.
Solution
Part 1: A
Part 2: U
Part 3: S, G
Part 4: P, T
Part 5: E, I
This is a tricky one, because it is set up as a pattern recognition puzzle, but in fact each part is one long palindrome – hard to recognize if you were not looking for it!
For example, part 1 is Asia is h cuffs is s ender is i redness is f fuchsia is A, which reads the same forwards and backwards!