Manifold is too good at solving puzzles. This one should be more of a challenge. This puzzle is cool, and will add value to your life. To incentivize collaboration and camaraderie, if the puzzle is solved, there is a 5000 Mana prize fund which I will allocate proportionally to the users responsible for solving it or contributing to the social infrastructure required to solve it.

The solution to the puzzle is a sequence of 9 letters (from the standard 26 letters of the English alphabet, capitalization doesn't matter).

Each user gets one guess per calendar day. Let's say you're submitting an answer on January 30th, and you wanted to submit "XABDUGLFM" as your solution, you would write a comment: "1/30/26: XABDUGLFM". Please do not abuse this system; one guess per day, and try not to edit your answers!

Every day, for 21 days (between Jan 13th and Feb 2nd), you will get a hint. You will get 21 hints total, one per day. These 21 hints have already been written. However, depending on the market % when I check each day, I will do something to the hint.

0-24%: I will add a single word to the end of the hint which is a meta-hint about the puzzle.

25-35%: The hint is given as originally written.

36-49%: I will introduce one error into the hint.

50-59%: I will introduce two errors into the hint.

60-75%: I will introduce three errors into the hint.

76-100%: I will introduce four errors into the hint.

These errors will make the puzzle harder to solve. I'll let you know how many errors were introduced for each hint by adding to the end of the hint something like "(X errors)".

After the 21st day, if you still have not solved the puzzle, you will get three more days to think (Feb 3rd-5th). On each of these days, if the market % when I check is between 0-24%, you will get a single word meta-hint. The market closes at 11:59pm ET on Feb 5th.

If you guess correctly, I'll immediately resolve the market to YES. If you guess incorrectly, I'll try to like your comment to indicate it is wrong, although I probably won't bother to do this until people have at least some grasp on the puzzle, so if you submit "BENBENBEN" on Day 1 and I don't like it, assume it's probably still not correct.

There will be no AI clarifications added to this market's description.

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