Notice that each snowflake is composed of seven hexagons, and each hexagon has a word written clockwise around its perimeter.
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The snowflake fills in like this
forming the words SURTAX, QUORUM, DOUBTS, SKATED, NINETY, CATNIP, & RODENT
How I solved it:
I started on the right with the X and S and M and Q. I don't believe there are any words where S follows X or where Q follows M so I assumed those two words were of the form S****X and Q****M. Then it was a matter of finding words that fit those patterns and also have two letters in common represented here by digits: S12**X and Q**21M. I happen to have a program I wrote while making this puzzle that does just that. The only words that matched were SURTAX and QUORUM. I then worked around the snowflake similarly, sometimes having to try all 6 possibilities of word boundary.
