Coding

Source: https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/xmaschallenge2022

  3. r

WORD: formation

  1. Replace all the blue cells with a letter from PART
  2. Replace all the green cells with a letter from EYES
  3. Replace all the gold cells with a letter from UNCURL

After each step you should have three 3-letter words in the rows of the grid, and you need to finish with a 9-letter word in the same formation as FORMATION.