ZZL

This puzzle consists of 15 trigrams, 15 badly drawn images, and some numbers, or counts, at the end. We can quickly confirm that there are also a total of 15 numbers, and interpreting as lengths, we suspect we need to find 15 words of lengths 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7 ,7 ,7 … 10, 10, 11.

Next, looking at some of the pictures, we might notice the first one is two Venus flytraps, or the last one could be a Segway. Meanwhile, of the given trigrams, YTR and EGW are substrings of FLYTRAP and SEGWAY. We can continue looking for words that contain the given trigrams and match the images, and this is further supported by and explains the title of the puzzle, ZZL, which is a substring of PUZZLE.

After identifying all the images, we can count how many copies of a word are depicted and index into the trigram with that number. Going in order of the images yields the answer TROUPPLE CHALICE. The lengths given at the end are helpful for confirming that we’ve found the right word.

Image	Word	Trigram	Number of copies	Letter
	FLYTRAP	YTR	2	T
	BURQA	URQ	2	R
	AUTOWORKER	OWO	3	O
	SUBZERO	UBZ	1	U
	COPYEDITOR	PYE	1	P
	HOPSCOTCH	PSC	1	P
	HIGHLIGHTER	GHL	3	L
	PIXEL	XEL	2	E
	CUCUMBER	UCU	2	C
	MUNCHKIN	CHK	2	H
	AARDVARK	AAR	2	A
	STYLUS	YLU	2	L
	SKIBIDI	KIB	2	I
	COCCYX	CCY	1	C
	SEGWAY	EGW	1	E

Authors' Notes

The trigrams were chosen to be intentionally rare so that first finding words that have a certain trigram, then matching it against the images, is a reasonable solve path. In fact, this was the intended solve path, but perhaps I drew the images a little too well. This idea is inspired by the game Bomb Party.