To solve the puzzle, you'll need these feeder answers from other puzzles:
| Puzzle | Feeder Answer |
|---|---|
| Blankety Blank | OVERT |
| Cognition | PLAYER |
| Gang Signs | VELVET |
| Grand Speeches | DRAPE |
| Mots de Passe | FONDU |
| Pride in Purple | IBERIA |
| Puzzling Grids | OBLIGE |
| Start and Finish | SWELL |
| The CRT TV | BACKUP |
| The String | CHANCE |
| Warnings | ICHOR |
The flavour text hints at HTML source code, which can be looked at by pressing CTRL + U.
The source code of this puzzle has a comment at the bottom, which hints that "you'll find them eventually". In fact, "them" refers to comments in other Puzzle Parcel puzzles. Each of these comments has a number, which will be used later.
The label of the parcel has a 5×5 grid and a 6×6 grid, alongside a +4. We also have 11 feeder answers; five 5-letter words and six 6-letter words. They seem like they could fit into the grids, but in what order?
This is where we use the numbers we found earlier. The 5-letter and 6-letter words can be sorted according to their comment numbers and can now be put into the grids.
| O | V | E | R | T |
| S | W | E | L | L |
| I | C | H | O | R |
| D | R | A | P | E |
| F | O | N | D | U |
| O | B | L | I | G | E |
| P | L | A | Y | E | R |
| I | B | E | R | I | A |
| C | H | A | N | C | E |
| V | E | L | V | E | T |
| B | A | C | K | U | P |
We could try reading the diagonals of the grids, but we get nonsense. However, we still have the +4 to work with.
By Caesar shifting the letters in the diagonals by +4, we get the answer to the puzzle.
SALTY SPIRIT