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Daily puzzle · target 5727. This puzzle has closed — today’s is here.
The clue
Business of the mischievous kind, times what a tangled bureaucracy becomes.
The rack
Eighteen tiles were on the board. Every letter is worth its place in the alphabet, A = 1 to Z = 26.
E5L12E5J10A1N14I9Y25O15G7R18O15K11U21N14O15O15M13
The answer
2 words, hitting 5727 exactly: MONKEY JUNGLE.
M13O15N14K11E5Y25= 83
×J10U21N14G7L12E5= 69
MONKEY 83 × JUNGLE 69 = 5727. SumHunt reads left to right, so there is no operator precedence to trip over.