The Dead Man's Bounty (Jack of Diamonds)

Hints & Solutions
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Hint 1: A fill-in-the-blank puzzle that uses story context and common sense to reveal the pairs of letters that ultimately form words which complete the story. Hint 2: There are no duplicate letter combinations. If "44" is equal to "LY", then no other number will also be equal to "LY" Hint 3: No, "44" is not equal to "LY", in fact the correct pairing of letters for "44" is "OD" Hint 5: Petey is a bird. Hint 6: The islands mentioned in the story are real. Hint 7: The correct pairing of letters for "1" is "CH". Hint 8: The first missing word is "CHARTERS" (which gives you the correct pairings for 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Hint 10: The full missing word list and keyword is found in the next block of text. If you do not wish to be spoiled, please do not continue. The Solution: The full missing words are as follows: charters, balinese, nobles, treasuremap, mainsails, sinbad, portofcall, threemaster, eyepatches, tricornehats, cannonballs, galleon, capeofgoodhope, safeharbor, sealions, albatrosses, lifeboat, parrot, incoldblood, slicedanddiced, feather, galapagosislands, lagoon, sunkenchests, goldcoin, pearls, chalice, goblet, laddies, barbados, bootstraps, garrotte, alligator, machetes, holsters, rapscallions, harpooned, theplank, portends, theseagods, chantey. The keyword is "PIECES OF EIGHT"