Talk:A Very Bright Girl (Two of Jokers)/@comment-31753487-20181113205234/@comment-35774517-20181114194142

Some of the titles are a little odd (The Shifty, Craven Kind in particular), though most all of them seem to be wordplay based on the source material. They don't seem as forced as the character names: why would you make a character named Faithful Marko if you didn't need a word that starts with F and ends in O? Why is the pegasus named Abraxas? Or the werewolf Wowena or dwarf Durgan?

It's possible the words in this puzzle relate to titles somehow. I'm not sure what exactly you'd do with it. MELEE could be 5 Clubs (Deadly Combat), but I don't see good associations for most of them (it's got to be something consistent, so entirely on the title and not contents of the story for example).

Presumably somehow we read something about the middle and rotate the dials somehow, probably matching left side words with right side words.